Nelson Mandela was a visionary who saw the future and visualised the power of unity. He sacrificed his life for the Springbok team we see today. I remember as a teenager when he spoke to the nation and said there will be forgiveness and no revenge. Multitudes were leaving expecting the opposite and he opened his heart
@@marygillmeister6013 this man was my neighbor in Orlando, Soweto, Johannesburg. When he was released in 1990. I was 6. My mom told me that that is the guy we've been waiting for since 1964 (the year my mom wa born). We saw his face for the first time live because his images were banned from all media. Nobody really knew what he looked like. My mom told me that apartheid is about to end because Mandela was back. I couldn't understand how he was gonna finish apartheid but in 1993 before he even became president I was already in a government school sitting with White people for the first time ever. I didn't even know there was such a thing as White people. I ha never seen a White person before. We had no TV, no electricity, nothing. It was really really bad. And what hurt me the most is that we live a few miles from a Power Station but we had none. The electricity was goint straight to the Whites hole the smoke was affecting us. My grandma even died of TB until they decommissioned the Power Station and turned it onto a tourist attraction for bungee jumping. It's called Orlando Towers. The towers are painted now and there's no smoke. Apartheid was something else. I think even most white folk don't really know what apartheid was, because they were insulated.
@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq Wow, thank you for sharing your story. We in the West did get to know of the horrors, especially during the 80s (I'm older than your Mum) as so many people were trying to put pressure (by activism) to free him. The sanctions were one thing but there were lots of calls for divestment too. Unheeded for the most part I fear, but people kept trying. It then suddenly seemed to happen so fast and we couldn't believe it either. But we celebrated it! Man's inhumanity to man never ceases to shock me, it was an utter disgrace that apartheid was permitted at all, and then allowed to persist against the majority Black population for so many years. We saw a lot of disturbing news footage in those days but we never could imagine the extent of your suffering. Thank heaven it is over. I hope you have a blessed day my friend.
@@marygillmeister6013 🖤 it's certainly half over. We have a long way still to go and now we're not fighting our fellow White South Africans we are now fighting other Africans. Maybe you've hear the term ' xenophobia' at some point. We'll get to that. Let me reply. The crippling sanctions and the shame of apartheid led them with no choice but to reconsider. It was people like Muammar Gadaffi, Robert Mugabe, nationals like Cubans, Russians, Chinese and the like. USA and the West including Israel were out enemies. Mandela himself was caught by the CIA, and labelled a terrorist until 2008. There were civil groups in America supported the course in rhetoric but 🇺🇸 as a country was pro apartheid. They always side with the evil ones who can help them get things like gold or oil or something. That America for you. So the Communists put pressure and they armed the MK which was the military part of the movement. It was necessary because ANC was founded as a non violent party but it was banned and muted. With that being said I must also acknowledge the fact that regular citizens like you felt the pain but we're powerless to do much really. But we saw all the support from 🇺🇸 🏴 and the likes. It's just that the stance of the lawmakers was anti the struggle and pro apartheid. It's 9am now and I'm having ☕ Join me and let's have a conversation. I'm not in a hurry to leave you. I like you.
Thank you Francois Madiba. Both of you set the current trend for the love of rugby as a uniting factor in South Africa
I think Madiba would be so proud of our Springboks today xoxo
Nelson Mandela was a visionary who saw the future and visualised the power of unity. He sacrificed his life for the Springbok team we see today. I remember as a teenager when he spoke to the nation and said there will be forgiveness and no revenge. Multitudes were leaving expecting the opposite and he opened his heart
@@foreignwarren7361 You are not ready for these type of conversations and I say this respectfully my guy
Madiba is dearly missed in todays world. I dont think any sportsman will talk about any politician in the same way ever again.
Bizarre thing that the UK and USA still had Mandela on the terriost list to 2008 🤔
Peace quenches capitalism.
Ammunition means money.
The UK and USA really likes money. Especially war money.
Such great insight into a great man and how he inspired a nation ❤
A world really. 🌎
@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lqTrue! He certainly inspired me for a start 😊
@@marygillmeister6013 this man was my neighbor in Orlando, Soweto, Johannesburg. When he was released in 1990. I was 6. My mom told me that that is the guy we've been waiting for since 1964 (the year my mom wa born). We saw his face for the first time live because his images were banned from all media. Nobody really knew what he looked like. My mom told me that apartheid is about to end because Mandela was back. I couldn't understand how he was gonna finish apartheid but in 1993 before he even became president I was already in a government school sitting with White people for the first time ever. I didn't even know there was such a thing as White people. I ha never seen a White person before.
We had no TV, no electricity, nothing. It was really really bad. And what hurt me the most is that we live a few miles from a Power Station but we had none. The electricity was goint straight to the Whites hole the smoke was affecting us. My grandma even died of TB until they decommissioned the Power Station and turned it onto a tourist attraction for bungee jumping. It's called Orlando Towers. The towers are painted now and there's no smoke.
Apartheid was something else. I think even most white folk don't really know what apartheid was, because they were insulated.
@@SibusisoHlophe-dp5lq Wow, thank you for sharing your story. We in the West did get to know of the horrors, especially during the 80s (I'm older than your Mum) as so many people were trying to put pressure (by activism) to free him. The sanctions were one thing but there were lots of calls for divestment too. Unheeded for the most part I fear, but people kept trying. It then suddenly seemed to happen so fast and we couldn't believe it either. But we celebrated it!
Man's inhumanity to man never ceases to shock me, it was an utter disgrace that apartheid was permitted at all, and then allowed to persist against the majority Black population for so many years. We saw a lot of disturbing news footage in those days but we never could imagine the extent of your suffering. Thank heaven it is over.
I hope you have a blessed day my friend.
@@marygillmeister6013 🖤 it's certainly half over. We have a long way still to go and now we're not fighting our fellow White South Africans we are now fighting other Africans. Maybe you've hear the term ' xenophobia' at some point. We'll get to that. Let me reply.
The crippling sanctions and the shame of apartheid led them with no choice but to reconsider. It was people like Muammar Gadaffi, Robert Mugabe, nationals like Cubans, Russians, Chinese and the like.
USA and the West including Israel were out enemies. Mandela himself was caught by the CIA, and labelled a terrorist until 2008. There were civil groups in America supported the course in rhetoric but 🇺🇸 as a country was pro apartheid. They always side with the evil ones who can help them get things like gold or oil or something. That America for you. So the Communists put pressure and they armed the MK which was the military part of the movement. It was necessary because ANC was founded as a non violent party but it was banned and muted.
With that being said I must also acknowledge the fact that regular citizens like you felt the pain but we're powerless to do much really. But we saw all the support from 🇺🇸 🏴 and the likes. It's just that the stance of the lawmakers was anti the struggle and pro apartheid.
It's 9am now and I'm having ☕
Join me and let's have a conversation. I'm not in a hurry to leave you. I like you.
Miss you madiba