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South Africa renews legal bid to stop US auction of Nelson Mandela memorabilia

Mandela's eldest daughter, Makaziwe, authorised the sale to raise funds for a memorial garden near her father's grave in Qunu.

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00:02South Africa's government has turned to the country's constitutional court in a renewed bid to stop the auction in the
00:08United States of items once belonging to Nelson Mandela.
00:13The four-year legal battle involves 28 objects including Mandela's identity card, shirts, writings and a key to his prison
00:22cell on Ribbon Island where he spent 18 of his 27 years in prison.
00:29The country's heritage agency SARA and the Culture Ministry argue the items are part of South Africa's national heritage and
00:37were exported without permission.
00:42Mandela's eldest daughter Maka Ziwe authorized the sale to raise funds for a memorial garden near a father's grave in
00:50Kuno.
00:52Mandela became South Africa's first democratic president in 1994 and died in 2013 aged 95.
00:59Question zero five,
01:01Question zero four,
01:03Question zero five,
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