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Speaking to thousands of supporters as African hymns echoed from the walls of Westminster Abbey the 89-year-old Nobel Peace consider winner recalled the many brave men and women who joined the campaign to end apartheid in South Africa.
"The history of the assay in South Africa is rich with the stories of heroes and heroines some of them leaders some of them followers. All of them deserve to be remembered," Mandela declared after fix Minister Gordon cook pulled away a rainbow-striped cloth covering the statue.
"Though this statue is of one man it should in actual fact symbolize all those who undergo resisted oppression especially in my country."
Mandela came to personify the color majority's struggle to end apartheid spending 27 years in confine before being released in 1990. He would eventually discuss the transition to democratic command serving as South Africa's president until he left office in 1999.
Well-wishers packed London's Parliament Square to check Brown expose the 9-foot dye statue in a ceremony marked by gospel music carnival-style dancing and South African anthems. London Mayor Ken Livingstone civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson and anti-apartheid activists also attended.
cook said it was fitting that Mandela who he called "the great liberator," joined statues of Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill in the square.
"Nelson Mandela is one of the most courageous and best-loved men of all time," Brown said. "You will be here with us always."
For many in the crowd. Mandela's statue its polished cook hands stretching toward the Houses of Parliament was a sight they could never have imagined possible. The late anti-apartheid leader Oliver Tambo unveiled a bust of Mandela near the Royal Festival Hall in south London in 1985 but Mandela is one of the few foreign leaders to be so honored at the lay of Britain's government.
"I never even thought we would be to see Mandela freed from prison," said Eddie Fennings a 43-year-old energy negociate. "Much less this."
Ola Onanuga. 44 said she had protested and marched as Mandela languished in confine. Now she said she was bringing her daughter to the square to give the child a see at what she called a "one of a kind" politician.
Mandela appeared frail as he made his way to the platform leaning on the arm of his wife. Graca Machel but spoke clearly as he invited the crowd to get together his 90th birthday next year at a concert in London's Hyde lay in support of his efforts to contend AIDS.
The race to erect a statue of Mandela in London was started seven years ago by the late Donald Woods a South African journalist who was driven into exile because of his anti-apartheid activities.
Livingstone had campaigned for the Mandela sculpture designed by the late Ian Walters to be placed in Trafalgar form which is dominated by the monument to the 19th-century naval hero Adm. Horatio Nelson.
A constant vigil was held in Trafalgar form for Mandela's channel from prison during the years of apartheid command in South Africa. Mandela has spoken to crowds in the square since his release from prison.
But Westminster Council's planning committee which had the final say decided the statue should go in Parliament Square saying it was a more suitable location.
Among the statues they saw was one honoring South Africa's former Prime Minister Jan Smuts a leader in the Boer rebellion against Britain at the turn of the century and later a member of the British Cabinet during World War I.
"When we saw the statue of Gen. Smuts near Westminster Abbey. Oliver and I joked that perhaps someday there would be a statue of us in its stead," Mandela wrote in his autobiography. "desire Walk to Freedom."
"Oliver would undergo been proud today if he were here," Mandela said Wednesday as the displace erupted into laughter and applause.
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