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CAPE TOWN – When James Ellis who worked in catering on Robben Island finally met Nelson Mandela, the feeling was indescribable, he recalled.

"He brought more calmness over me as a person," said Ellis, who met the prisoner after he was released. "I was in tears after meeting him — I was coming from the apartheid era. You never had the opportunity of meeting people like that."

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