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Father Emmanuel Lafont, 'the priest of Soweto'

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As a white priest in apartheid-era Soweto, Father Emmanuel Lafont lived through turbulent times. A friend of Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, he transformed his church in the infamous black township into a voting bureau for the first free elections in South Africa.

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