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Me and Nelson Mandela

June 23, 2013
Tags: Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Mandela legacy, Cyril Ramaphosa, F.W. de Klerk, Madiba, European Union, cooking, anti-apartheid struggle, liberation struggle South Africa, Mandela biographer, Mandela obituary
By Charlene Smith (c)

I love to cook and so there came a point during the anti-apartheid struggle, where I gave up full-time journalism, became a full-time activist, part of the underground, and after long, endless meetings, would cook for strugglistas.
Murphy Morobe loved my veal Marengo, Cyril Ramaphosa (now African National Congress deputy  Read More 
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Struggling to Dance as Mandela Did

June 23, 2013
Tags: Nelson Mandela, Mandela legacy, south africa, Jacob Zuma, African National Congress, gay rights, HIV, AIDS, South Africa election, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Freedom, Willem de Klerk, Robert de Niro, Oprah, John Cusack, love Africa
By Charlene Smith (c) 2013

“How we danced,” retired judge Albie Sachs said remembering the years of Nelson Mandela’s presidency.
Sachs lost an arm to apartheid bombers then became a Constitutional Court judge in a democratic South Africa. One of the world's most liberal constitutions, it was the first to enshrine gay rights.
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