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“... its role in changing the course of Southern African history in defiance of Washington. As Nelson Mandela said when he visited Havana in 1991: ‘We come here with a sense of the great debt that is owed the people of Cuba . . . What other country can point to a record of greater selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations to ...”

“... judiciaries would preserve the gains that independence had brought. Almost unnoticed at the time, Nelson Mandela got it about right in his statement at the Rivonia Trial in 1964 when he put representative democracy alongside social justice as the solution for South Africa. Prashad could have spent more time on the broader causes of the breakdown of the ...”

“... for it at all: They have sentenced the men of Rivonia Rumbala rumbala rumba la The comrades of Nelson Mandela Rumbala rumbala rumba la He is buried alive on an island Free Mandela Free Mandela. This worked notoriously well throughout the years of anti-apartheid campaigning, and ...”

“... Gehlen and Klaus Barbie to supervise its Cold War discipline, which organised the arrest of Nelson Mandela, the Phoenix programme in South Vietnam, the military coup in Greece in 1967, the arming and financing of Fascist elements in Italy and Japan, the mass murder of the Left in Indonesia and the deployment of death squads in El Salvador and ...”

“... build-up to the 1964 Election, the Kennedy assassination, the deaths of Churchill and Attlee, the Nelson Mandela trial, the replacement as Tory Leader of Home by Heath, Rhodesian UDI, the nationalisation of steel, the launching of Concorde, as well as debates over comprehensive schools and the Common Market – and all of this against the background of ...”

“... rooms and doing apple-pie beds,’ Peel’s producer remembers. Before Radio 1 broadcast the Nelson Mandela tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, a memo was distributed instructing DJs not to make comments of a ‘political nature’. At its most conservative and dominating, Radio 1 was a sort of Thatcherism of the airwaves, and its empire, like ...”

“... the end of apartheid. As early as August 1965, Che was in correspondence with the jailed Nelson Mandela, via Winnie Mandela, and Mandela’s warm feelings towards Cuba, and indeed current support for Havana in the face of the intensified US blockade, can be seen as long-term ...”

“... when trying to secure its bid for the 2010 World Cup, the South African FA sent the 85-year-old Nelson Mandela, already frail and in poor health, on a 17-hour trip to Trinidad to meet Warner in a final attempt to secure his precious three votes. In the end, South Africa won the final bidding round 14-10, so we may infer that the trip was a success. But ...”

“... newspaper, ‘is that he will not now be able to stand shoulder to shoulder with Comrade Mandela on that great day when freedom comes.’ Other, more radical students are less respectful of the ANC luminaries and their chosen strategy of negotiation. ‘The only thing to negotiate,’ they are given to saying, ‘is the transfer of power’ – or ...”

“... is? Sometimes this contrast is so stark it is almost comic, and Rhodes appreciates the irony. When Mandela dies in late 2013 the two men travel together to South Africa as part of a large American entourage for his funeral, at which Obama is due to give an address. It is a richly symbolic moment: the first African-American president paying tribute to ...”

“... Falls Road in Belfast is decorated with a mural featuring several famous figures – among them, Nelson Mandela, Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. At its centre, though, five times the size of the others, is a stern-looking man with bushy, neatly parted grey hair, wearing a frock-coat and necktie. Two hundred years after his birth into ...”

“... in the manner of Tom Mboya. He did not even show ‘nobility’ in the European tradition, which Nelson Mandela would show in 1962 when he spoke to his apartheid judges as Danton or Wolfe Tone had spoken to their accusers. Lumumba, a lean, bespectacled, slightly insect-like figure, seldom smiled. He was bitter and unforgiving. Worse still, he was ...”

“... to replace the Palestinians. They sought to exploit them. But the parallels were close enough for Nelson Mandela. ‘We know too well,’ he said in 1997, ‘that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.’ The civil rights movement in the US, despite its origins in anti-slavery (very few echoes there with the Palestinian ...”

“... I think, as many do, that of the things in her that are hard to like or condone her treatment of Nelson Mandela as a wicked terrorist who deserved to spend the rest of his life in jail is very important. What did she do to make up for making an enemy of Mandela and of welfare? Well, she made a friend, and a working ...”

“... is still the region’s premier power: nothing has upset Comrade Bob as much as his eclipse by Mandela. The Congo intervention has moved the Army to the centre of national life and there are rumours about every aspect of this action – no one knows exactly how many Zimbabwean troops have gone to the Congo or how many military police were sent to keep the ...”