Mandela calls for action on 'unnatural' poverty

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Guardian

Staff and agencies
Thursday February 3, 2005

Former South African president Nelson Mandela today urged thousands to join a global campaign against poverty, declaring: "Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural."

Mr Mandela made his call at London's Trafalgar Square, scene of decades of British anti-apartheid protests, ahead of the meeting of finance ministers from the G7 industrialised nations later this week.

He told the crowds at the Make Poverty History Rally, aimed at encouraging the public to put pressure for real action on trade, debt and Aids, that achieving "trade justice" would be key to success.

And high profile meetings this year such as, the G7 meeting and the gathering of G8 leaders in Scotland in July must be used to help focus international minds on the issue of poverty, he said. "Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural," he said, standing in Trafalgar Square - where protesters had years earlier campaigned for his release from jail under the apartheid regime. "It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/story/0,15756,1405146,00.html

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1. kick

[Rex]

2. Mr. Mandela needs to move here and take on Arnie in 2008!!!

He would kick the terminators ass in an election!!!