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After signing the scroll of honorary freemanship and roll of freedom Mandela briefly addressed the cheering crowd outside the city hall.
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He said he was amazed that the motion of freemanship was moved by the ANC and seconded by the NP.
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After receiving his freemanship Tutu was driven to the council's Market Hall in an open-topped Rolls Royce, escorted by traffic officers and firemen wearing golden helmets.
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The Krugersdorp Transitional Local Council conferred the freemanship at a special council meeting in which councillors clapped and cheered and residents danced and ululated in the hallowed precincts of the town hall.
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This right of freemanship soon became hereditary, and the male children of a freeman were to be freemen themselves.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1898
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If a newcomer, he had to be formally admitted to freemanship at a town meeting.
A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892
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a freeman's daughter acquired, if he had not been free before, the right of freemanship.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1898
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