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522- The Comrades

99% Invisible

Mandela and the South African Government

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Anti-apartheid activists had been relentlessly harassed, intimidated and imprisoned. Now suddenly the government was unbaning them. Four years later in April 1994 South Africa held its first democratic election. Nelson Mandela became president. We all just start thinking we own the country now. Everything is ours.

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