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Nelson Mandela's failing health and selling of TV rights to funeral
Jun 3 2009, Alan

Mr Mandela, who is revered for leading the fight against apartheid in South Africa, is by far the country’s most respected politician and his funeral will be inevitably be a major political event

Now aged 90, the former president is in failing...

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