Historical moment: (from left) Mandela, Dr Mahathir and Dr Ling waving to the audience during Mandela’s visit to Malaysia in 1990.
TAN Sri Lim Kok Wing first met Nelson Mandela in 1993, when he requested for Malaysia’s help to prepare the African National Congress for South Africa’s first free elections.
It was then three years after Mandela had been freed from 27 years of imprisonment for championing equality in white-minority ruled South Africa.
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