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Nelson Mandela, global symbol of resistance to racial inequality and injustice, became, after his 1990 release from prison, an icon of postconflict reconciliation and national healing. Mandela’s competence in and commitment to efforts at national reconciliation was unrivalled. To Afrikaner whites, the ethnic group dominating South African politics since 1948, Mandela affirmed that their language, which he had studied in prison, was a true tongue of Africa. In his first State of the Nation address as president, he recited, in Afrikaans, Ingrid Jonker’s poem about the 1960 massacre of Black protesters at Sharpeville. Jonker, Mandela asserted, was an Afrikaner and also an African, and these identities were compatible.
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Lieberfeld, D. (2014). Nelson Mandela: Personal Characteristics and Reconciliation-Oriented Leadership. In: Jallow, B.G. (eds) Leadership in Postcolonial Africa. Palgrave Studies in African Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478122_7
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