The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation
Intelligence Squared
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🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes in life, you gotta go big, and nowhere goes bigger than Dubai. |
| 0:09.0 | A city-sized playground in a vast desert, where the tallest building in the world dwarfs |
| 0:14.2 | super-sized superyots, and there's no end to high-end shops. |
| 0:21.0 | So go big, go bold, go beautiful, and fly to Dubai with Virgin Atlantic, book now. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello, I'm Ian Stirling, and I'm with one of McCain's farmers who grow their potatoes. |
| 0:34.0 | Hang on, these are odd-looking potatoes. |
| 0:36.0 | That's kale, Ian. |
| 0:38.0 | You do know you need potato to make chips, right? |
| 0:41.0 | Yes, but we don't just grow potatoes. |
| 0:43.0 | We actually rotate different crops to help keep the soil healthy. |
| 0:46.0 | So we eat McCain chips. I'm helping do some good. |
| 0:49.0 | Exactly, yeah. You're supporting the move to regenerative farming. |
| 0:52.0 | By the way, I do know the difference between kale and potatoes. |
| 0:56.0 | Of course you do. |
| 0:58.0 | McCain, let's all chip in. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome to Intelligent Squad. I'm producer Catherine Hughes. |
| 1:05.0 | On Easter weekend, 1993, Nelson Mandela was engaged in slow-moving power-sharing talks |
| 1:11.0 | with President F.W. Declarek. |
| 1:13.0 | When a white supremacist shot Mandela's heir apparent, Chris Harnie, |
| 1:17.0 | in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. |
| 1:20.0 | On this episode of the podcast, a claim South African journalist Justice Malala |
| 1:25.0 | recounts the riveting story of the pivotal nine days that followed Harnie's murder |
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