During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners. β¨ Nelson Mandela (2011). Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations, p.424, Pan Macmillan
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