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...Sonn claimed that Mandela resolves the contradictions in values rife in the world today...
...Franklin Sonn, the first U.S. ambassador from a democratic South Africa, used anecdotes to characterize Mandela's presidency as exceptionally principled. Toward the end of his talk, he offered a glowing vision of the future under Thabo Mbeki, the country's new president-elect...
...Sonn designated the speech as his "valedictory address to America," since it comes at the end of his four-year term as ambassador...
...tram by an unseen gulch too wide for the beasts to straddle. The savanna where they roam was once drab cow pasture, but every weed and rut has been meticulously contoured and art-directed to resemble an African plain. Disney's Imagineers did a convincing makeover. When Franklin Sonn, the South African ambassador to the U.S., saw the place last month, he said, "This is the bush veldt. This is my home...
...hell when the egg ni '-ner (air conditioner) is on the blink. Students often use a handbook on Strine that sets up little dramatic situations larded with lingo. What, for instance, should a wife do with a layabout husband? "Fitwer smeeide leave him. Seems he sawway sonn the grog. He'll nebby any good." Translation: "If it were me, I'd leave him. Seems he's always drunk. He'll never be any good...