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MADIBA – A six part review.
July 18th is a global celebration of Nelson Mandela’s life and the legacy he left for mankind.
We are urged to take 67 minutes ‘time-out’ to do something to commemorate his life and make a small difference.
Some argue we have ‘lost the plot’ – that Mandela’s life deserves much more than 67 minutes of ‘doing good’ once a year.
I wonder what the great man himself would have thought.
In the only face-to-face meeting I had with him (1992 at Lanseria Airport – he was off to confer degrees at the University of the North, I was off to the bush – we chatted over a toasted sandwich!) the impression I have is that he would be deeply pleased, and humbled, by the fact that the world’s people were honouring him, no matter by how much or how little.
My contribution below is to briefly describe the six passages of his life as is described by the Mandela Exhibition at the Apartheid Museum
by Steuart Pennington
- THE CHARACTER FORMING YEARS
- THE EARLY YEARS AS A COMRADE
- LEADERSHIP ROLES and ARREST
- 27 years in Prison – and the will to forgive and to reconcile
- Four years of negotiating our future – some highs, some lows – but never maleficence
- FIVE YEARS AS PRESIDENT of SOUTH AFRICA and a GLOBAL STATESMAN
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MANDELA DAY – JULY 18 – SOME IDEAS FOR ACTION
Next Tuesday is Mandela Day, celebrated around the world.
The call to action is to spend 67 minutes of your time making a difference.
But what to do?
At www.sagoodnews.co.za we receive many contributions on how each one of us can make a small difference.
Here are THREE of them.
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THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela, among other things, has received honorary degrees from more than 50 international universities worldwide. He also had a nuclear particle (the ‘Mandela particle’), a prehistoric woodpecker (Australopicus Nelsonmandelai) and an orchid (Paravanda Nelson Mandela) named after him.
(Source: www.Eighty20.co.za)
