Court Opens on Former Apartheid Prison Site
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From Times Wire Reports
President Thabo Mbeki inaugurated South Africa’s new Constitutional Court building on the grounds of a 100-year-old former prison fortress where Nelson Mandela was detained.
“It is right that the Constitutional Court occupies this building, which represents the conversion of the negative, the hateful energy
The $73-million edifice will house the 11-judge court that presides over legal challenges to the nation’s basic law.
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