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Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba’s historic speech remembered

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

South African legend Miriam Makeba has died. We revisit Makeba’s historic speech to the UN in 1963 in which she pleaded with world leaders to help South Africans defeat apartheid.

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