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ZA HPRA A2084-M-Mb-Mb3-Mb3.7
Title
Ronald Suresh Roberts controversy
Date(s)
- 2007 (Creation)
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Articles and correspondence relating to a text by Ronald Suresh Roberts in his authorised biography of President Thabo Mbeki Fit to Govern, in which he misquotes an extract of a speech made by at the Conference on Human Rights in London, 15-16 June 1947, which was part of her report to the Institute of Race Relations (also contained in this collection), and used the misquote to compromise H. Suzman's role as a liberal politician in Apartheid South Africa; also included correspondence by Albert John Luthuli to, sent to Editors of various newspaper.