The late South African president wasn’t the only one to draw parallels between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and apartheid in his country
A sculpture of Nelson Mandela is erected in Ramallah, West Bank, in 2016. Photo: Getty
Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Nelson Mandela becoming president of South Africa in 1994.
The country was still tense, with this newspaper reporting he was “inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president behind a bulletproof glass cage, with the South African air force in the skies above him”.
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