Nelson Mandela statue unveiled
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Former South Africa leader Nelson Mandela is hailed a "liberator of people", as a statue is unveiled in London.
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Chicago Tribune - In the 1980s, while in jail on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela wrote a letter to the wife of one of his prison guards. In it, he said he respected her husband, Christo Brand, as a man of integrity. But he was concerned that Brand, an Afrikaner, didn't understand the value of education.
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KHARTOUM South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Sudan yesterday to discuss post-war rebuilding ahead of a peace pact expected to be signed by the Khartoum government and the main rebel group, the Sudanese People&#39;s Liberation Army, to end two
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Actor Will Smith meets Nelson Mandela after agreeing to become an ambassador for his global Aids campaign.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela announced that his eldest son, Makgatho Mandela, 54, died of AIDS Thursday morning at a Johannesburg hospital.
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Arts & entertainment: Film starring Morgan Freeman will centre on Mandela's efforts to improve South African race relations through the medium of the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
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Nelson Mandela is hailed a "liberator of people", as a statue is unveiled in central London.
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BOSTON - If there is to be a statue, it should be shaped like David Ortiz. It should be massive and menacing and brightly lit as darkness descends.
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PARIS, Nov 11 (IPS) - Nelson Mandela spoke for much of the world when he   praised Yasser Arafat in the preface of a biography as a leader  who  âtransformed the Palestinians' status from that of  refugees to that of a  nation in the most complete sense of the  term.â
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Nelson Mandela paid tribute to the antiapartheid struggle yesterday as Britain unveiled a towering statue in his honor outside the Houses of Parliament, saying it symbolized the sacrifices made by all who fight oppression.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Hendrik Verwoerd Drive is headed for the dustbin. The busy road, named after a key architect of the apartheid laws that oppressed South Africa's black majority for decades, is likely to get a name more in step with the times: Nkululeko Drive, the Zulu word for "freedom."
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Tony Smithâs majestic sculpture, âSmoke,â returns to public view in Los Angeles.
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QUNU, South Africa  - A frail-looking Nelson  Mandela buried his last son in a remote South African field on  Saturday, wearing a red AIDS ribbon to symbolize the fight  against the disease that killed him a week ago.
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A life-size statue of Elvis Presley is to be erected in Hawaii marking the 30th anniversary of the singer's death.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela is to attend the unveiling next week of his statue opposite the British parliament, London Mayor Ken Livingstone said Friday.
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Best-selling British thriller writer Ken Follett unveiled Thursday a life-size statue of himself in the northeastern Spanish town of Vitoria whose cathedral he says inspired his latest book.
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Former South African president Nelson Mandela will watch Wednesday as a statue of him is unveiled outside the Houses of Parliament before dignitaries including Prime Minister Gordon Brown. via New Straits Times