| © 2017 South Africa - The Good News MADIBA – A six part review. July 18th is a global celebration of Nelson Mandela’s life and the legacy he left for mankind. We are urged to take 67 minutes ‘time-out’ to do something to commemorate his life and make a small difference.
Some argue we have ‘lost the plot’ – that Mandela’s life deserves much more than 67 minutes of ‘doing good’ once a year. I wonder what the great man himself would have thought.
In the only face-to-face meeting I had with him (1992 at Lanseria Airport – he was off to confer degrees at the University of the North, I was off to the bush – we chatted over a toasted sandwich!) the impression I have is that he would be deeply pleased, and humbled, by the fact that the world’s people were honouring him, no matter by how much or how little. My contribution below is to briefly describe the six passages of his life as is described by the Mandela Exhibition at the Apartheid Museum by Steuart Pennington THE CHARACTER FORMING YEARSTHE EARLY YEARS AS A COMRADELEADERSHIP ROLES and ARREST27 years in Prison – and the will to forgive and to reconcileFour years of negotiating our future – some highs, some lows – but never maleficenceFIVE YEARS AS PRESIDENT of SOUTH AFRICA and a GLOBAL STATESMAN...[read more] MANDELA DAY – JULY 18 – SOME IDEAS FOR ACTION Next Tuesday is Mandela Day, celebrated around the world. The call to action is to spend 67 minutes of your time making a difference. But what to do? At www.sagoodnews.co.za we receive many contributions on how each one of us can make a small difference. Here are THREE of them.
...[read more] ...[read more] THIS WEEK'S FAST FACT Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela, among other things, has received honorary degrees from more than 50 international universities worldwide. He also had a nuclear particle (the ‘Mandela particle’), a prehistoric woodpecker (Australopicus Nelsonmandelai) and an orchid (Paravanda Nelson Mandela) named after him. (Source: www.Eighty20.co.za) PROMINENT PAINTS MAKES LIFE BETTER FOR COTLANDS KIDS DIGITAL SKILLS INITIATIVE TO TRAIN HALF A MILLION YOUNG AFRICANS IN ONE WEEK 50 EKURHULENI YOUNGSTERS GRADUATE REAPING WHAT THEY SEW: HOMELESS NOT HOPELESS IN WOODSTOCK IS FIXING YOUR HOME LOAN INTEREST RATE IDEAL? LONG-TERM INVESTING: HOLD GOLD IN PORTFOLIO MIX South Africa - The Good News You are receiving this email Newsletter as a subscriber to our Newsletter group Like Tweet Share Forward Preferences | Unsubscribe | 