“To the American media, mining Mandela's legacy has meant repeating the man's fortune-cookie profundities and warmed-over wisdom.”

—  Ilana Mercer

"Mandela mum about systematic murder of whites" http://praag.org/?p=12332, Praag.org, December 13, 2013.
2010s, 2013

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