Mandela Cancels Anti-Apartheid Talk
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Nelson Mandela, who is under a doctor’s order to reduce his activities, has canceled a major speech at an anti-apartheid rally outside Parliament, the African National Congress said Wednesday.
The 72-year-old ANC leader has maintained a punishing schedule since his release from prison last February, and the “traveling is killing him,” ANC spokeswoman Thery Matlala told the independent South Africa Press Assn.
She said he has canceled a Cape Town speech scheduled for Friday, shortly after President Frederik W. de Klerk opens this year’s session of Parliament, which excludes the black majority.
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