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By The Drum Team, Editorial

December 10, 2013 | 1 min read

Arguably the greatest legacy of Nelson Mandela is the strength of the unity generated by the goodwill he invoked. So many people have spent the last twenty-three years naming him as their greatest hero that it's easy to forget he was such a divisive figure throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Many on the right were convinced that Mandela was a dangerous revolutionary and would not have been unhappy if he'd never been released from his long incarceration.

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