JOHANNESBURG: Two decades ago in Oslo, Nelson Mandela and South Africa's last apartheid president FW de Klerk stood side by side and accepted the Nobel peace prize, a moment that epitomized the reconciliation of enemies.

But that powerful gesture of forgiveness on December 10, 1993 might never have happened.

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