The World - News from Feb. 17, 1986
South Africa’s largest black union elected jailed black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela its honorary life president and vowed to march on his prison and deliver a union membership card. About 20,000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers met at a sports stadium in Soweto township near Johannesburg to hear union leaders announce policy decisions. No date was set for the march on Pollsmoor Prison near Cape Town, where Mandela is held.
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