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The battle for Mandela’s legacy returns to screen

Two western media companies are launching duelling documentaries on the liberation leader and his family

A seven-part documentary series produced by Netflix, the United States-based film and television streaming service, The Trials of Winnie Mandela, which examines the complex legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, lands four weeks before the British television station Channel 4’s three-part reconstruction of the tense final days leading to Nelson Mandela’s release on 11 February 1990.

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