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• a  opposing the policy of apartheid in South Africa
  an antiapartheid leader

• In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first black Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, the church's most important .
• Their main targets are leading antiapartheid activists.
• He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were .

News & Articles

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• Mandela remains in serious but stable condition
  JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela was in serious but stable condition in a Pretoria hospital for the third day Monday with a recurring lung infection, and a foundation led by retired archbishop Desmond Tutu described the 94-year-old antiapartheid hero as an ‘‘extraordinary gift’’ to South Africa.        
  June 11, 2013 - Boston Globe