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Michael Jackson Met Nelson Mandela For The First Time This Week In 1996
July 18, 2023
Michael Jackson and Nelson Mandela in South Africa July 1996

This week in 1996, Michael Jackson met Nelson Mandela for the first time in South Africa, one of several visits with that nation’s president, which turned into a friendship over the years. Michael also visited the Black township of Soweto on that trip and commemorated anti-apartheid protestors who had died while fighting against segregation. #MJHumanitarian

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