Two new statues of Nelson Mandela were unveiled by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 18 July in Mthatha, in the Eastern Cape province – the birthplace of the country’s first democratically elected president.
“There are already statues of Mandela everywhere – across South Africa, across the continent, in many parts of the world,” Ramaphosa said, citing Palestine, the United Kingdom, the Seychelles, Senegal, Cuba, the United States, Brazil, China and France.
We tend to forget that Mandela was a member of the Communist Party
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