Kenyon in the World
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From Cape Town: A Perspective on Nelson Mandela
The Thrill
South African President Jacob Zuma announced former President Mandela’s death sometime after 11:30 p.m. SAST (South African Standard Time) last night. I had just gone to bed, but woke up hardly twenty minutes into sleeping to shouts in my hostel of “He’s dead! Mandela’s dead!”