EDITORIAL: Your turn to step up, Mr President
Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk grasped the nettle when all seemed lost. It can be done again
04 February 2020 - 05:10
It is difficult to believe that it is 30 years ago this week that then president FW de Klerk unbanned the ANC, the PAC and the SACP and other organisations, reversing decades of apartheid repression.
It is also difficult to remember that in a few days’ time it will be the 30th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s walk down the drive at Victor Verster prison to freedom after 27 years behind bars...
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