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Trade unionists at the STUC Congress paid tribute yesterday to Nelson Mandela.
South Africa's honorary consul in Scotland Brian Filling regaled delegates with his memories of Mandela.
Mr Filling, a founding member of Scotland's anti-apartheid movement, recalled that when Dundee, Glasgow and Aberdeen had awarded Mandela the freedom of their cities in the early 1980s the newspapers had branded their gesture as consorting with a terrorist.
ARTHUR WEST surveys the achievements of the Scottish campaign against South African apartheid and how we can draw on them to fight a rising far right
NADIA JOSEPH welcomes a survey of the role that TV played in the debate over apartheid and race relations in Britain
ROGER MCKENZIE recalls the one-in-a-generation communist leader murdered at the dawn of a new South Africa 33 years ago last April 10
ROZ FOYER explains the significance and tradition of today’s St Andrew’s Day March and Rally