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Cape Town : South Africa
Former South African president Nelson Mandela lit a freedom flame in his former prison cell on Robben Island. On the mainland a giant laser clock beamed onto Cape Town’s Table Mountain, while on the waterfront 100,000 people drank and listened to live music.

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