Word: africa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...South Africa is a country unrecognizable from 10 years ago," he wrote Mandela in a birthday note. "Few would have dared then to predict the speed of transformation from apartheid to government based on democratic principles...
Blair names Mandela as the personality behind the change. "The steps that are being taken towards an equitable and open society are a direct reflection of your personal conviction that South Africa should never again experience oppression of one by another...
Aware of the power of cultural symbols, Mandela used daily events to change South Africa...
...South Africa, the black classes have traditionally watched soccer games, and the Afrikaners are avid fans of rugby...
...greatness, I think, lies in his humility," says Sheila Sisulu, consul general of South Africa in New York. "I think it's not even conscious. He is a humble servant of his people...