KemetLeadsTheir words
“We seek to create a united Democratic and non-racial society.”
Source: Address at Georgetown University, Washington DC, 27 January 1987
Context Speaking in the United States as ANC president in exile, while the apartheid government held Nelson Mandela in prison and banned the ANC.
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