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‘I’m not here to make you comfortable’, says UN’s Francesca Albanese | SA News

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Francesca Albanese is not in South Africa to make anyone feel comfortable. The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has come to deliver the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture — and she is already testing whether the world still recognises moral clarity when it hears it.

Ahead of Saturday’s lecture, she told journalists it felt like “a call of destiny” to be invited by an institution whose mission is to “stir trouble”. 

Echoing Nelson Mandela Foundation chief executive Mbongi-seni Buthelezi’s remark that the lectures must provoke robust debate, she added,in three years in the role,…

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