Tribute to liberation leader, former Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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OPINION: President Bouteflika was from the generation that we can all agree followed in the footsteps of the founding fathers of the liberation struggle - the likes of Ahmed Ben Bella, Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere, writes Molly Dhlamini.

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After hearing of the passing of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on September 17, I could not help but to immediately reflect on his leadership, influence, resolve and decisiveness.

The support for the liberation of the last colony in Africa is what the presidency of Bouteflika was so committed to, and the refugee camps of Tindouf, that house a sizeable population of the Sahrawis, is able to connect to the world through Algeria, having its government legitimised. This is the practical solidarity that Bouteflika’s presidency was able to sustain.

As the the president of the United Nations General Assembly in the period 1974-1975, he played a decisive role in the suspension of the apartheid regime’s representatives, which denied them accreditation. Prior to this period, Algeria housed freedom fighters of critical importance like Che Guevara, and the father of our democracy Nelson Mandela, who received his first military training in Algeria in the 1960s. At the time of ending their own struggle, the FNL had graciously received the late Jonas Matlou an emissary of the ANC who paved the way for the solid relations that eventually developed between the two liberation movements.

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