Mandela on armed struggle
Mandela on armed struggle
By Satur C. Ocampo
In homage to his physical resilience versus the logic of the inevitable, one wishes that Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, will hold on at least until his 95th birthday on July 18.
It is a certainty that he’ll live forever – as an exemplar of moral and political leadership, of courage, patience and resoluteness, of humaneness and humility – in the hearts of all who love freedom, justice, and peace.
These awesome qualities of Mandela we have read or heard about, including from one who identifies with him as the first black president of his country: Barack Obama.
With his wife and two daughters, US President Obama visited the prison cell on Robben Island where Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years as a political prisoner. Speaking at Cape Town University, he extolled Mandela as the “ultimate testament to the process of peaceful change.”
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