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redfiona99Most people classed as being in poverty 'have job' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25287068 - which given the state of inflation and the minimum wage doesn't surprise me.
As the imprisoned Nelson Mandela became the face of a global campaign against apartheid, within South Africa a ban on his image meant people weren't sure what he looked like - and he became a mythological figure, recalls author William Gumede. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25256818 I have to admit this interested me because I'm old enough to remember when you couldn't hear Gerry Adams's voice on TV, which I didn't understand at the time and still don't. Mostly because the replacement voice was so much nicer than Adams's real voice when it finally got revealed.
In 1994 I voted for Mandela over a thousand times as prisoners in Rooigrond wispered his name in my ear - https://medium.com/p/836adb04333e from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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As the imprisoned Nelson Mandela became the face of a global campaign against apartheid, within South Africa a ban on his image meant people weren't sure what he looked like - and he became a mythological figure, recalls author William Gumede. - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25256818 I have to admit this interested me because I'm old enough to remember when you couldn't hear Gerry Adams's voice on TV, which I didn't understand at the time and still don't. Mostly because the replacement voice was so much nicer than Adams's real voice when it finally got revealed.
In 1994 I voted for Mandela over a thousand times as prisoners in Rooigrond wispered his name in my ear - https://medium.com/p/836adb04333e from
nwhyte
