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Mandela
Channel 11 Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Even though the 1987 cable movie tends to be soft around the edges, it is effective as a metaphor offering insights that reach far beyond the social, political and economic battlefields of South Africa. Danny Glover stars in this timely repeat.
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