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Old 07-17-2008, 01:49 PM
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on the international political stage the most memorable day for me in South Africa was February 11, 1990, when Nelson Mandela was finally released from 27 years imprisonment. I had been only 12yo when he was imprisoned in 1964, sentenced to spend his life on Robben Island, in view of beautiful Cape Town. http://www.robben-island.org.za/

His release in 1990 was broadcast live on TV (television had finally been introduced in the 1970s, after being previously banned because the ruling govt had declared it subversive)

anyway, watching this gracious man enter his freedom with such dignity and lack of wrath and vengeance at the injustice was deeply moving to me.
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