Mandelas Awarded Prize of $100,000
Jailed South African black leader Nelson Mandela and his wife, Winnie, were awarded the 1985 Third World Prize of $100,000 in recognition of their campaign against apartheid, sponsors said Friday.
A statement from the London-based Third World Foundation for Social and Economic Studies said Mandela “is honored for his message of freedom for all the world.”
Mandela has been in prison for the past 23 years for opposing the white-minority government in Pretoria.
The foundation is a non-governmental body which promotes cultural and economic cooperation among Third World countries.
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