Schechter writes: "For the people of South Africa, Mandela was the leader they could identify with - one who had suffered alongside them."
Nelson Mandela. (photo: Yousuf Karsh)
Nelson Mandela in Retrospect
05 January 14
For the people of South Africa, Mandela was the leader they could identify with—one who had suffered alongside them.
t least now, Nelson Mandela won’t have any sleepless nights coping with an unseemly family feud over money and property.
The tribal chiefs of his branch of the Xhosa people have urged the family to follow the lead of Graca Machel, his widely respected third wife of 18 years, the only member of the extended family never accused of seeking publicity or self-promotion. She took loving care of him as he aged until his diseased body gave out after he turned 95.
Also, now, he doesn’t have to listen to the woulda, coulda, shoulda brigade of know-it-alls who were not part of the liberation, but who now invoke his memory only to accuse him simplistically of selling out and other betrayals.
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