Very few have made such a difference to their nation and to history, writes Denis MacShane
He mixed the verve and verb of the English language to expose the deep evil of apartheid racism at a time when Margaret Thatcher and the British Foreign Office were straining every diplomatic muscle to protect the money the City of London – as well as giant gold, diamond, coal and iron ore global firms, such as Anglo-American and De Beers – made from racist slavery.
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