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Richard Stengel on Mandela: The Lost Tapes

We the People

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Mandela - I Don't Want to Be an Octogenarian President

Mandela became the first democratically elected president of South Africa and he was never a micromanager. He understood that his role was in some way symbolic. Mandela wanted to set an example for the rest of Africa to voluntarily and willingly relinquish power. And I think that was a very, very powerful symbol.

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