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NELSON MANDELA AFTER VIEWING ’SARAFINA!’
It is up to ill of us to see that it also speaks for tomorrow
and helps ensure that our children have the right to learn,
the right to a future, the nght to life itself. 'SARAFINA!'
tells of hope, of courage and the tnumph of the human
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