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<\/a><\/p>\n15 December 2011<\/p>\n
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Johannesburg \u2014 International news agencies have set up cameras outside former president Nelson Mandela’s Eastern Cape home, for as long as six years, according to a report on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Times newspaper quoted Chieftainess Nokwanele Balizulu, who lives directly opposite Mandela’s home in Qunu, confirming that she had given permission for CCTV cameras to be installed at her house.<\/p>\n
“I agreed to having those cameras there, but I’m not going to say anything else,” she said.<\/p>\n
The daily said there had been at least three cameras for as long as six years on her property, which belong to the US-based Associated Press and UK news agency Reuters.<\/p>\n
AP spokesman Paul Colford told The Times: “They are not surveillance cameras. Along with other media, the AP has preparedness around Mr Mandela’s eventual passing.<\/p>\n
“The AP cameras were not switched on and would only be used in the event of a major news story involving the former president.”<\/p>\n
The Times said Reuters’s Southern Africa bureau chief referred queries to its London office.<\/p>\n
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