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Gro Harlem Brundtland Winnie Mandela
Member of Parliament in South Africa
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"I was very young when we got married and I was not even politically mature, so the path along which I have travelled was not an easy one. And I found it very, very difficult at first to deputise for the man I had hardly lived with, whose ideals were as great as they were ... a man who was regarded as the people's leader - and I had to fumble my way along."
Winnie Mandela 1986
       
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