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Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

~Nelson Mandela

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On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

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Apart from life, a strong constitution, and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla.

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The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Statesman

Born: July 18th, 1918

Died: December 5th, 2013

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