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Hey, Let's Not Forget the Role of the Then-Governing Afrikaaners in South Africa's 'Long March to Freedom': For It'd Surely Be Remiss (& Extremely Churlish) Not to Accord (the Intriguingly Named) 'F W de Klerk' His Due in the Ultimately Successful Efforts to Dismantle Apartheid There...

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For however pivotal and critical the role and involvement of Nelson Mandela in the final demise of that much-detested system of government, as the old ditty well declares... it takes two to tango!  
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& A (Similarly Belated) BlogObituaryTo Someone Who Would've Been A Better Person to Have Held the Oval Office Than the Then Contemporary President He Could Presumably Have Beaten at the Ballot Box: Colin Powell, Former U.S. Secretary of State & Military Leader (in Operation Desert Storm, Iraq War #1)...Unbowed But Nevertheless Ultimately Beaten (Down) By That Darn Virus, Youknowwhathisname...

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 To Be Continued...
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A Belated 'Adieu' to A Rare Politician, British Conservative M.P. Sir David Amess - Like His Labour Party Counterpart Jo Cox, 'Taken Out' By A Mad Misfit of a (Subhu)man In the Very Midst of Carrying Out His Vocational (Parliamentary) Duties...& In a Methodist Church (Of All Places)...

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To Be Continued... Months later! But, anyhow, In brief (here and now) this rarest of politicians had a fascinating 'bio'(graphy), many bits 'n bobs with a distinct personal resonance (if I do say so), but above and beyond all of that, what impresses me parhaps the most - if you'll forgive my ignoring the personal here to look at the wider (United Kingdom) context: you can bet yer bottom dollar, that if it'd been (Brexiteer) David Amess and not (Bremainer) Jo Cox murdered in that horrible and ghastly cold-blooded killing just prior to the referendum on June 23rd, 2016... the Brexit would've passed in a literal canter, the 55:45 opinion polling split in favour of a Brexit (recorded in the days just before Jo Cox met her grisly end) being largely reflected in the result... No, I can't prove it, but something tells me that'd have been the result, and it'd have helped silence the numerous post-referendum critics endlessly banging on about the *'close ...
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