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Nelson "Madiba"
Rolihlahla Mandela
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There's a lot to love about Nelson Mandela, and the thing I love
about him most was expressed in an almost dismissed remark I heard
him make when some overly enthusiastic TV news interviewer went on
and on and on about how Nelson Mandela had
transformed South
Africa.
I mean, he was literally slathering Nelson with acknowledgment,
like you would put chocolate syrup on an icecream sundae. It was
almost embarrassing.
After a while Nelson said "You don't get it, do you? Nothing of
what happened in
South Africa
was the work of any one individual.
The transformation of
South Africa
came out of a partnership between many, many people.".
That for me is who Nelson Mandela really is.
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