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Mandela

[ man-del-uh ]

noun

  1. Nel·son (Ro·lih·lah·la) [nel, -s, uh, n raw-lee-, lah, -l, uh], Madiba, 1918–2013, South African Black antiapartheid activist: president of South Africa 1994–99.


Mandela

/ mænˈdɛlə /

noun

  1. MandelaNelson (Rolihlahla)1918MSouth AfricanPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state Nelson ( Rolihlahla ). born 1918, Black South African statesman: president of South Africa (1994–99). Jailed in 1962 for 5 years and, in 1964, for life, he was released in 1990 after a long international campaign; deputy president of the African National Congress (1990–91) and president (1991–97); elected president of South Africa in 1994; Nobel peace prize jointly with F. W. de Klerk in 1993
  2. Mandela(Numzano) Winnie1934FSouth AfricanPOLITICS: political activist ( Numzano ) Winnie . born 1934, Black South African political activist: campaigned for the release of her husband Nelson Mandela; they divorced in 1996


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Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Oskar Schindler—these names come readily to mind when we think of heroes of conscience.

At one point, Turness suggested that Gregory have a live band close out the show to commemorate the death of Nelson Mandela.

I was quite specifically talking about the comparison between playing Heimdall on one day, and playing Mandela on the next.

The song “You Give Me Love” came from both playing Mandela, and my positive feelings about the country.

But the producer of the film took the clips to him since he was very close to Mandela.

Horace mentions two places in its neighbourhood, Varia, and Mandela, the sites of which can be exactly determined.

A similar rock-cut tomb was found at Mandela, in the Anio valley.

This is Horace's Digentia, the stream he calls it whose icy waters freshen him, the stream of which Mandela drinks.

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MandelMandela, Nelson