South Africa launched a new line of bank notes Saturday bearing the image of its first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela on the 22nd anniversary of his release from prison. The announcement pays tribute to the legacy of the Nobel Peace Prize-winner known as one of the world’s greatest statesmen.
The new South African bank notes will bear the image of president Mandela, the first president of a free, democratic South Africa. The notes bear the 93-year-old former president’s image circa 1990, the year he was freed from prison in a moment that came to symbolise the fall of apartheid and the rise of a new, democratic South Africa.
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