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Mandela Foundation denies claim

By The Associated Press    Comments Comment on this article0
Published: October 25, 2009

JOHANNESBURG — A new self-serving book by a central African president lists Nelson Mandela as the writer of the glowing foreword, but South Africa’s iconic leader says he never wrote those words or even read the tome, and his foundation vowed to take action.

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"We condemn this brazen abuse of Mr. Mandela’s name,” Verne Harris, acting chief executive of the Johannesburg-based Nelson Mandela Foundation, said in a statement Tuesday.

The as-told-to political biography by Republic of Congo President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is titled "Straight Speaking for Africa,” and the front cover claims in large type that Mandela penned the foreword.

Amazon.com, one of the book’s sellers, says in a blurb that the foreword praises Sassou-Nguesso as "one of our great African leaders.”

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