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MANDELA OPENS MULTI-MILLION ROBBEN ISLAND GATEWAY.
South Africa's most famous political prisoner and the country's first democratic president Nelson Mandela, on Saturday opened a R40-million "gateway" to Robben Island, where he was jailed for 26 years, with a plea for tolerance. "Our motto should be: let us make peace so that we can concentrate on the really important work that needs to be done," he told more than a thousand invited guests at Cape Town's Waterfront. "That is, alleviating the plight of the poor and the defencless.... Poverty is the greatest threat facing us and if we don't solve that question it is difficult for us to make progress." The gateway, named after Mandela, includes a newly-completed three-storey building that will serve as terminus for the 250000 visitors that take the ferry to the island every year. It will offer introductory exhibitions, and also houses a restaurant. Mandela said Robben Island played a central role in giving birth and life to democracy in South Africa, and it was humbling for those who had been jailed there when their role was acknowledged today. "That this gaetway is named after one individual cannot obscure the fact that what we are celebrating are the collective achievements ...
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