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benefits for all citizens. What about if every department starts are not gimmicks. These are ANC under Mande An African icon I on African terms Police Commissioner Chihuri a I worried man! VIEW I miss Morgan - P N the 10 years after he withdrew from novice, focused to public life, Nelson Mandela divided his time political rather than In less polite between a mansion in one of Johannesburg’s wealthiest suburbs and his ancestral home in translated into a q Qunu, a village in South Africa’s impoverished parties of wealthy 4 - 26 January 2014 - The Observer vote but keep the b eastern Cape. William Gume The contrast could not have been starker. In one, his neighbours were cast in the Business School in image of the white “Rand Lords”, the mining wrong to argue that “However, the e magnates and bankers who built the sprawling city - and Africa’s biggest economy - from the not as robust as the s it true? Is it really true or thisPresident one Mandela, everyonehe want is just Nelson of choice, will was dispose n mourning former South African “There was a gli vast gold reserves in the rock beneath their feet. of those Harare rumoursAnd that is a good thing. gazumped! produc to claim him for their own. that refuse to go In the other, they were black peasant farmers the ANC that all th want to claim him as part on the board of Police the own countries’ away? Some will Commissioner government to sitconfessionals about Station,Manicaland In their committing suicide chicken living in thatched “rondavel” huts and eking out political power, and olice complicity in aiding apartheid. — one of the mining firms after being caught with undeclared a living on windswept hillsides in scenes that the economy. It wa Anjin General The Observatory Augustine domestic, continental and global struggles that brought is reliably informed that province, President “retirem Others as participants in exploiting the country’s diamonds money by his bosses. Chihuri is a worried have hardly changed in centuries, let alone the it was also the Man President Mugabebastion ofbe! in Chiadzwa.nemesis – Mugabe has replaced fowl r down the last sorely misses his The ZRP also revealed that man! And he should settler colonialism in Africa. South Africa an two decades since the end of apartheid. Others is he going own thirty-three traffic cops from In the wake of victory What legacy still after toleave, resounding Chibage’s forced be judged as better players While few query Mandela’s achievement when, on February well not anymore in theirthat failures and fervent desire to imbeva as the flavour be disp in the struggles of office is resignation, imperialism. in the event his termagainst colonialism and Chihuri ordered Avondale Police Station in Harare in dragging South Africa back from the brink Town’s Victor Vers – Morgan Tsvangirai.a In fact, the queue. I of athat of of the decade! as an not to were last week transferred to no Like everyone for record join fact has will however claim Nelson Mandela longer extended, else, I will the investigation it litany of civil war in the early 1990s and brokering in salute to the crow 15th time! icon before more corrupt deals involving reach. 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