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A decade after the death of the former president, and amid growing disenchantment with the ANC, South Africans are questioning the one-dimensional figure of popular myth
The Zulu royal founded the Inkatha Freedom Party that fought a civil war with the African National Congress
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Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife came to symbolise black anger against post-apartheid settlement
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The ANC leader is probably better prepared to be president than any of his predecessors
He bore witness to black South Africans’ struggle against white minority rule
Dlamini-Zuma and Ramaphosa seek to become head of the party they have long served
The party that once inspired the world with its vision of the future has fallen far
Anti-apartheid activist was jailed on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela
It is time to reassert our values of decent treatment for all
A musical-cum-opera about the South African leader that goes only skin deep
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