00:02South Africa's government has turned to the country's constitutional court in a
00:06renewed bid to stop the auction in the United States of items once belonging
00:10to Nelson Mandela. The four-year legal battle involves 28 objects including
00:17Mandela's identity card, shirts, writings and a key to his prison cell on Ribbon
00:23Island where it spent 18 of its 27 years in prison. The country's heritage agency
00:31SARA and the culture ministry argue the items are part of South Africa's national
00:36heritage and were exported without permission. Mandela's eldest daughter
00:43Makaziwe authorized the sale to raise funds for a memorial garden near a
00:49father's grave in Kuno. Mandela became South Africa's first democratic president
00:55in 1994 and died in 2013 aged 95.
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