Long Walk to Freedom is extraordinary. I just can't stop saying that. Nelson Mandela is 95 years old. He lives in Johannesburg, the primary city from which he fought for freedom for decades in South Africa. When he inevitably passes on to another life, this world loses a man within which lies an enormously bright spirit - the likes of which the world is rarely a witness to. Where do these caliber of so very few people come from? Willing to stand up and keep standing up in the face of unrelenting abuse and horrid oppression.
Like the Germans who opposed the Nazis, willing to pay the ultimate price for taking action en contra what they knew was just wrong wrong wrong wrong.
This is a very recent interview with Denis Goldberg, the White freedom fighter, 15 years younger than Madiba, who stood next to his Black colleagues at the Rivonia trial and faced death for opposing apartheid.
And now I'm late for work because I don't want to stop reading all about everything that happened in South Africa.
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