Tributes and encomiums have been flowing in the way of Africa's legend and illustrious son, Nelson Rohilala Mandela, who died last Thursday at the age of 95. It is expected and richly deserved for a man who became the icon of the global protest against the politics of institutionalised racism and racial discrimination.
Most interesting tributes have been coming from the governments of those countries whose leadership once supported and promoted the policy of separate development and the brutal suppression of the rights of black people and placed every obstacle on the way of freedom for the late Mandela.
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