President Mandela has showed the way to many in the world of what can be achieved when we reconcile our differences. May the soul of Madiba rest in peace! The most fitting tribute that the people of Madagascar, and all of Africa, can pay to Nelson Mandela at this time in our history, is to organise and participate in a peaceful, non-violent and orderly election, and to entrench democracy in the country.

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