Word: brandfort
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Since 1962 Mandela has lived under various banning orders restricting her activities. In 1977 she was banished from her Soweto house to Brandfort, in a remote area of the Orange Free State. When unknown arsonists fire bombed her residence there last August, Mandela blamed the government, defiantly returned to Soweto and challenged her banning restrictions in court. Following moves by some courts to invalidate banning orders recently, a government prosecutor last week announced that the state was abandoning its efforts to enforce the restrictions on Mandela. Though technically the ban had not been lifted, no attempts were made to prevent...
With that, Mandela, 51, defied the government restriction that has forbidden her to speak in public for nearly 25 years. A leading antiapartheid activist in her own right, Mandela has endured arrests and solitary confinement. She was banished eight years ago to Brandfort, a remote area of the Orange Free State. But since her home was firebombed by unidentified arsonists in August, she has become increasingly defiant, leaving Brandfort without permission, traveling throughout the country and meeting with the press...