S. Africa Marks Mandelas Freedom, Still Seeks Equality: Video

South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela invited one of his former jailers to help mark the 20th anniversary of his release from prison at a special dinner.The Nobel Peace Prize winner spent 27 years in prison under white-minority apartheid rule, mainly on the notorious Robben Island near Cape Town. His release on February 11, 1990, set South Africa on the path to democracy.

South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela invited one of his former jailers to help mark the 20th anniversary of his release from prison at a special dinner.The Nobel Peace Prize winner spent 27 years in prison under white-minority apartheid rule, mainly on the notorious Robben Island near Cape Town. His release on February 11, 1990, set South Africa on the path to democracy.

TORONTO — A Canadian woman held for 18 months in Mexico for allegedly plotting to smuggle the son of late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi into the country has been released from prison, her father said on Friday. However, an emotional John MacDonald said he won’t fully believe that his daughter, Cynthia (Cyndy) Vanier, is free until she’s back in Canada. “We don’t want to say or do anything until we see the whites of her eyes and she’s home,” MacDonald said from Brampton, Ont.

From Princeton Professor Russell K. Nieli's article "How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others":

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