Nelson Mandela spent a greater part of his 27 years in this cell on the Robben island. For many like me, visiting it is a pilgrimage.
Nelson Mandela, who, last week, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the day the South African apartheid regime decided to bring him out of incarceration (he did it with a dinner with his family and his ex-jailer!) is a miracle. South Africa is work in progress, for sure, but the distance it so rapidly put between itself and its immediate past is a miracle too. And the two miracles are completely intertwined.
Nelson Mandela, who, last week, celebrated the 20th anniversary of the day the South African apartheid regime decided to bring him out of incarceration (he did it with a dinner with his family and his ex-jailer!) is a miracle. South Africa is work in progress, for sure, but the distance it so rapidly put between itself and its immediate past is a miracle too. And the two miracles are completely intertwined.
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