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Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, shouts Free Palestine during a speech at the 2022 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in Algeria. Photo/Screenshot of [email protected]__06
ALJIR – Grandson of the late leader south Africa (South Africa) Nelson Mandela dedicated his speech during the opening of the 2022 African Nations Championship (CHAN) at Algeria on Friday for Palestine.
Speaking from a stadium in the capital named after his grandfather, Zwelivelile “Mandla” Mandela gave a fiery speech chanting “Free Palestine.”
“Let’s… remember that Madiba (name given to Nelson Mandela) said our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of Palestine, therefore we stand together to fight for the liberation of Palestine,” he said.
“From the river to the sea, liberate Palestine,” he shouted, against a backdrop of roaring crowds.
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Before mentioning Palestine, Zwelivelile also called for the liberation of “oppressed” Western Sahara, which Morocco and the Algerian-backed pro-independence Polisario Front have disputed for decades.
“We said, in honor of him (Nelson Mandela), don’t forget Africa’s last colony, Western Sahara, let’s fight to liberate Western Sahara from oppression,” he said.
Morocco controls about 80 percent of the desert area, while the Polisario Front is based in the Algerian city of Tindouf and controls marginal areas of Western Sahara.
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Algeria closed its airspace to all Moroccan flights in September 2021, a month after cutting diplomatic ties with Morocco, accusing it of “hostile acts”.
