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Soweto Gospel Choir Mandela Tribute

Soweto’s Gospel Choir teamed up with Woolworths in Johannesburg to do a “flash mob” tribute to Mandela. The choir members dressed up as staff and shoppers. Watch it – it’s very powerful: The song they sing is Johnny Clegg’s Asimbonanga (We have not seen him): Asimbonanga [we have not seen him] Asimbonang’ uMandela thina [we have […]

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Mandela’s Science & Technology Legacy

Nelson Mandela brought peace to a divided nation.  The work of development in South Africa and other countries in the region is an ongoing challenge, and Mandela believed that science and technology have a central role in that. Calestous Juma writes in New Scientist: Apartheid did not just separate races. Probably the most destructive of its […]

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Friday 6 December 2013 Irish newspaper front pages

RIP Nelson Mandela

Irish newspaper front pages are dominated by the death of Nelson Mandela.   via RTE Radio 1 Tomorrow mornings front pages (via @MikeHogan4FM) pic.twitter.com/OPwC04pqNk — RTÉRadio1 (@RTERadio1) December 6, 2013

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