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December 09, 2013
Protestors gift of love offered in rememberance
Waatea Team
Posted On December 9, 2013
Mana leader Hone Harawira is trying to get himself and party vice president John Minto to South Africa to attend memorial services for Nelson Mandela, who died last Friday.
The official New Zealand representatives at the funeral for South Africa’s first post-apartheid president will be Prime Minister John Key, two members of the National Party Government at time of the 1981 Springbok tour, Jim Bolger and Sir Don McKinnon, Labour Party leader David Cunliffe and Maori Party MP Pita Sharples.
Mr Harawira says there needs to be representatives of those in New Zealand who protested against apartheid and stood in solidarity with Mr Mandela and his colleagues in the resistance movement.
"When they heard the game at Hamilton had been called off, he said it was like the sun had come out. To know that something as small as that on a global scale could mean so much to him and to his comrades locked up in Robbin Island, it says a lot about the support we offer one another in times of struggle and to recognise we don't do it out of any need for glory for ourselves but out of a love for freedom for all," he says.
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