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Mandela addressed the Willesden Trades Council in 1962. The honour was supposed to have been conferred in April 1990 when Mandela visited Brent but it failed to get the necessary support. Hence this was only done in 2013.
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Honorary Freedom of the City of Salford

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30 November 2005

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Honorary Freeman of the City of Leeds as part of the celebrations marking the seventh anniversary of the end of apartheid

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30 April 2001

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Mandela also rededicated the city's Mandela Garden, which first opened in 1983 in support of South Africa's struggle for equality

Honorary Freemand of the City of Newcastle Upon Tyne

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2 April 1986

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Certificate admitting Mr Mandela to be an Honorary Freeman of the City of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

City of Newcastle Upon Tyne

Honorary Freedom of the City of Sheffield

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Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Honorary Freedom of the city, UK

City of Sheffield

Honorary Burgess of the City of Dundee

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1985-10-31

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Certificate naming Mr Mandela as an honorary Burgess of the City of Dundee, Scotland, UK

City of Dundee

Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John from the Queen of Great Brittain

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2004

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Order of St John from the United Kingdom

Queen of United Kingdom

Honorary Freedom of the City of Kingston Upon Hull

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1993

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Certificate admitting Mr Mandela to be an Honorary Freeman of the City of Kingston upon Hull, UK

City of Kingston Upon Hull

"The Greatest Legend and Hero of Our Time" recognition from the Eastern Cape Province Legislature

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26 July 2004

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Bust in recognition of excellence presented at a special sitting, held in honour of Dr Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela from the Eastern Cape Province Legislature, South Africa

Eastern Cape Province Legislature

Presidential Citation from the Meharry Medical College in Nashville

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27 June 1990

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Award recognizing Mr Mandela's many life achievements from the Medical College in Nashville, USA

Meharry Medical College

Offical Salute from Miami-Dade County

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15 July 2001

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Certificate saluting Mr. Mandela's outstanding lifetime achievements from Miami-Dade County, USA

Miami-Dade County Office of the Mayor and Board of County Commissioners

Music recording ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ by the British group The Special AKA

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15 March 1984

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Calendar notes: Madiba records sell well. Record calling for the release of Nelson Mandela has made a big impression on pop charts after only one week "Free Nelson Mandela" by the Special AKA - a multi-racial group - is No 4 on Capitol Radio charts & no 68 on the national charts

Statuette of Mandela in Springbok jersey, presented by the management and staff of the Park Thistle Hotel during a visit to Cardiff, Wales

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Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Poetry collection "Tata Enkosi for opening the doors to Freedom and Democracy" by Nandi Jola took place in London to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela

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31 October 2014

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Flat in the British television sticom "Only Fools and Horses" was called Nelson Mandela House

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1981 till 2003

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

The characters Del Boy and family live in a flat called Nelson Mandela House. This popular British television sitcom was broadcasted by the BBC between 1981 - 1991 with sporadic specials until 2003

Newly discovered nuclear particle was named after Mandela

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1973

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

It is called the ‘Mandela Particle’ at the British Institute of Physics at the University of Leeds

Honorary doctorate of the University of the Glasgow Caledonian University

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10 July 1996

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Award conferring an honorary degree of Doctor of the University , UK

Glasgow Caledonian University

Inland Revenue Staff Federation (IRSF) named its Commonwealth Trade Union Scholarship after Nelson Mandela

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1985

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

The union is now called the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS). The scholarship programme does not exist anymore

Mandela Scholarship Fund at the University of Sussex in Falmer, Brighton

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Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Nelson Mandela International Diversity award was established in Britain’s House of Commons to recognise organisations around the world for their diversity efforts

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c1994

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Mandela-Tambo Lecture series to mark the 25th Anniversary of the granting of the Freedom of the City to Nelson Mandela

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26 October 2006

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

The anniversary was on the eve of the 90th anniversary of Oliver Tambo's birth. The lecture series was born from this discussion. The inaugural Lecture was delivered by the then South African Foreign Minister, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma

Shield presented by the Lords and Commons Cricket Club Group

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1995

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Queen's Baton Relay from Queen Elizabeth II to symbolise the return of South Africa into the Commonwealth of Nations and in particular the country’s participation in the Commonwealth Games in Canada after absence of 36 years

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20 June 1994

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

The Relay is similar to the Olympic Torch and holds a secret message from Queen Elizabeth II and serves as a unifying symbol to the people of the Commonwealth

People’s Gallery in London named one of their rooms the 'Nelson Mandela Room'

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December 1983

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

King Charles composed the song 'Lov Madiba' featuring vocalist Katie Melua and Shingai Shonowai

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26 June 2013

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

The proceeds of the sale will benefit the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund

Song 'Mandela' by Gail Thompson and the Jazz Arica All Nations Big Band

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5 February 2001

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

Nelson Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute Concert, Wembley Stadium, London

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11 June 1988

Part of Nelson Mandela Tributes

The Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute was a popular-music concert staged on the 11th of June 1988 at Wembley Stadium, London, and broadcast to over 60 countries and an audience of 600 million.

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