Mandela's unlikely friendship with his prison guard
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- Guarding Mandela: The incredible and heart warming story of an unlikely relationship formed between Mandela and his prison guard.
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As concern mounts in South Africa over Nelson Mandela's condition, this touching report looks at the unlikely bond between the leader and his Robben Island prison guard, which became a lifelong friendship.
"He was afraid to approach the street, we had to lead him by the arm," recalls Christo Brandt, Mandela's prison guard for 12 years. The government was so sure he wouldn't be recognised that from 1981, when his health first began to deteriorate, South Africa's public enemy number one walked regularly through the city of Cape Town with his prison guard on the way to hospital. The two men's backgrounds couldn't be any more different: Mandela, a black lawyer with royal blood, and Brandt, a white, working class farmer's son. Yet their close relationship broke all the rules of the apartheid regime. Mandela wrote in his autobiography, "the most important person in any prisoner's life is not the minister of justice, but the warden in one's section". When the government bugged Brandt and instructed him to set Mandela up with some leading questions, Brandt showed extraordinary loyalty and instead tipped off his friend. In 1995, the former prisoner called his old guard to offer him a job in the presidential office, where the two worked happily together for many years. "He had become like a father to me", Brandt smiles.
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I met this man in 2000 with a colleague, Per Graversen on a trip with the Aarhus Youth School.
He had a souvenir shop, just by the quayside to the ferry to Robbin island. We had a long chat about his relationship with Nelson Mandela. Mandela also taught many of his guards, (who were specially chosen for their hatred of black South Africans, and many of them were illiterate) all they way up to university level. Many graduated. He did all this, whilst tutoring his fellow prisoners.
Tutoring his guards had to take place in deepest secrecy, as the authorities would have put a stop to it, if found out.
What a story!!
Whether you see the man as a 'terrorist' or freedom fighter, whatever your view is. No one can deny that he stood up for what he believed in, suffered and made a very big impact not just on South Africa, but the entire world! Very few people would have the will to do what he did, what a brave man!
SOAPSTONE BIRD I never heard that but even if it's true all though I doubt it. what would you say millions of black Africans killed by whites and stole there land and property hmmm
I arrived in South Africa in 1992. I have lived there ever since. I must say, it is a beautiful country, with many resources. I do not have the political language to express all that has happened, but I can say this country is currently stretched to its limit. Resources are being used in ways that do not benefit those whom it was intended to benefit. Yet there is a true potential in it, that will only come out when ignorance, and greed are dealt with. These are world problems, not SA alone's. Yet, I feel with the passing of Mr. Mandela, if indeed the foundations he laid out are really strong, the foundations of freedom, peace, and understanding, we will be strong enough to face the coming winter.
What country did u arrive from?
+Mark Coetzee either Brazil or Portugal(the names a dead giveaway)
+boganix what country are you from I mean
+Mark Coetzee i think your question was directed at Renato
+boganix lol sorry yes it was I didn't evens check
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Wow! This story made me feel hope, sadness and gratitude for the peaceful transition after Nelson Mandela's release in 1990. Even though many died leading up to 1994, we avoided a civil war. This could be a movie in it's own right.
Mandela is and was the only royal leader I will always respect as a real leader, the rest did things for their own benifits and fears.
Thank you!
And just last night i met this wonderful person. Just last night. What a remarkable story
Thank you for this posting. Is there a link to the whole film.
A mistake. Mandela became president in 1994, not 1992. Excellent video!
Never say all prisoners are bad. Some prisoners come out amazing people. Some people only go to prison for oppression.
Very few
Amazing emotional story, gives hope in humanity
Glad you and Mandela were friends.
Keep to fight Nelson!
Greetings from Italy.
If I've learned one thing on my journey it's that sometimes there is more to a name than meets the eye Mr Brandt, like Amanda and the meaning of it
Can anyone help me understand what Brandt called Nelson Mandela in the very last minute of the video when he introduces him at around 10:17 (on stage).
Thanks!
He Mentioned Mandela's Full Name..
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Many thanks for the prompt reply. Now in all honesty - I had already figured (on my own) that the guy wasn't obviously reading his shopping list.
Now (if I may some more) do help understand some more. Is that how people properly pronounce "Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela" 's middle name? It all sounded like Khho-lish-lash-la... Is it an Afrikaans pronunciation or is it the way Mandela's original Xhosa pronunciation would have it?
Marc Abela You are welcome (: .That is actually how his name is supposed to be pronounced .Regardless of whether it is a Xhosa pronunciation ,Afrikaans pronunciation or any other pronunciation.
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So what if I am from Europe and lived in US for many years...my college roommate was black, I am white....I really don't see any problem with that. What matters now is that yes SA is a democracy, a country of majority-rule and yes Mandela helped to bring it about. What matters to me is DEMOCRACY and if there are mistakes made by the present SA government - they deserve to be talked about and must be dealt with, but not in a hateful, rather in a democratic way.
That's bizarre, they seem to have had no issues with treating him at One Mill as he got older which I believe is a military hospital of sorts for soldiers, weird
R.I.P
DIOS TE BENDIGA
What an unusual accent.
If Mandela didn't forgive what would happen between white south African black south African ? Anyway in Africa we need more competent like him
+baydhabo janaay soomaali hadii ay xitaa ka hadlayaan arrimo siyaasaded ee dalal kale maad is cayneysaan
idealist Hassan ...he cant fight to win. ..thats y he succumb
Couldve been a next zimbabwe
Yugoslavia ten time worst
TB is pretty serious
Mandela must comeback
That's why we should never ever care about skin colour . The white guard was a guardian angel....
foooooooooooool
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Some leaders or people always never learn their lessons. One day they will destroy their own kind.
Wherea me comment gone?,,
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Mein Gefangener, mein Freund MANDELA. Hochachtung vor diesen Mann " Christo Brand "
Mendba u were rt forgiveness the rainbow nation RIP
Uphile tata wesizwe
His death could have caused a national uprising and they wanted him dead or risen from the dead to play their little game
He's going to die. Super great loss for humanity.
well...tolerance and forgiveness are not easy for sure. Yet by all accounts South Africa now is not exactly an oppressive Hitler-like society towards its white citizens. Yet it had been a segregation based society towards majority black population. So just accept the reality and embrace it.... and thanks to Nelson Mandela for all he has done
How sure can we be he didn't die in prison all things considered TB is pretty serious, not a boer seun by accident
At least you received a trial Tatta they just plan my life no crime comitted
funny thing is tho we never worship scientist like this even tho they're actually making the changes ^^
+chinessgirl
Scientists who slit you to let blood? Scientists who applied leeches to your skin? Scientists that warned tomatoes were poisonous? Scientists that still refer to oil as being a fossil fuel?
Where did your thing that banged bigly come from?
Is evolution steady state or fits and starts?
Scientists thought malaria was caused by bad air.
Since you're Chinese, let's instead talk about powdered rhino horn and tiger penis soup.
Give me 10 sentences :'v
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im kind of skeptical too of mandela's merits, i just don't see anyone leader acheiving power without funding from interest groups such as the elite bankers and royal families of developed nations.
ממש להפוך למנהל דיגיטל אחרי שסיימתה את הלימודים מצחיק מאד
Mandela
The spin on Mandela was that he was sentenced to 27 years for his resistance to state tyranny.
Umkhonto we Sizwe, terrorist wing of the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. Head of this terrorist wing. Plead guilty to 156 acts of terrorism including planting of bombs in public places. He was head of this terrorist wing for 2 eyars befroe he was arrested in 1962. This terrorist organization then went on to plant bombs in various places, including in churches and was responsible for many deaths to men, women, and children. These were people murdered by the organization that Mandela was the head of.
Mandela never renounced the violence or condemned it. Any government in the world would have locked him up. He was put in jail for ordering these bombings. He was found with 50,000 landmines which had been sent to him by the communist government in Russia.
President Botha visited Mandela and offered to release him if he would renounce the violence and bombings. Mandela refused.
When he became President of South Africa. He purchased massive amounts of weaponry. He also became cozy with other violent dictators around the world, including Qaddafi in Libya and Castro in Cuba. We know that communism in the 20th century was responsible for far more deaths than even the Nazis. Just one example, we know there 70 million people slaughtered in Russia alone. A pattern which we saw over and over again regarding communism. Just execute anyone who can read, or is outspoken, and happens to disagree with the communists. Mao Tse Tung in China. Castro, Stalin, Phnom Penn in Cambodia... Mandela.
Today, the majority of South Africans, including blacks say they were better off under the apartheid government. Police and government corruption is rampant. Transparency International released it's 2013 report on government corruption and rated the current South African government as the highest, most corrupt in the world. South Africa now averages 59 murders daily. This amounts to about 1 murder per 2,413 every year! This easily makes it the most violent country in the world. Rape and gang-rape in South Africa are also the highest in the world. Part of the reason for this is the ridiculous myth propagandized by "witch doctor" types who tell people that having sex with a virgin is a cure for Aids. Predictably, this has led to an increase in Aids. Today, 12% of South African citizens are H.I.V. positive. The ANC government has done nothing to stop the pandemic. Moreover, poverty amongst both withes and blacks has increased dramatically since the ANC took over in 1994. Fortunately, the Apartheid government had enough sense to destroy it's nuclear arsenal before leaving office.
The current post-Apartheid government and 80% majority black population is also arguably the most xenophobic in the world. In a 2006, a survey by the South African Migration Project found that South Africans are more opposed to immigration than anywhere else in the world. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 2008 reported over 200,000 refugees applied for asylum in South Africa, almost four times as many as the year before. These people were mainly from Zimbabwe, though many also come from Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. Competition over jobs, business opportunities, public services and housing has led to tension between refugees and host communities.
Mandela's second wife, Winnie, was about the most evil person one could imagine. She was convicted of the torture and murder of a 14 year old boy whom she accused of being an informant. She was also a big fan of what is called "necklacing." A practice in which a person is wrapped in barbed-wire, place a tire over the shoulders so they can't move, the pour gasoline into the rim of the tire and set fire to it. This was who Nelson chose to marry. We can only guess that her sick violence was only part of the atrtaction. Nelson knew these things about her when he married her.
So, how does it feel to be noticed?
Bode Olajumoke Sounds like you must have read my post on the truth about Mandela. How does it feel to be noticed? Feels good, and thanks for asking.
Bobby Vaught I guess I had to humor you in your lost crusade..Im quite charitable like that :
Thanks for telling us what we already know, that ANC had a terrorist wing..whoopidoo...So tell us what good is it to repeat all these to us (don't get em wrong, Im all for truth, but its best to seperate truth from propaganda and you seem to have gotten carried away here).., you remind me of some other guy I spoke with who was spouting all these "truth" propaganda, yet telling us all to get over apartheid..quite revealing, at least he was honest with his intentions...He wants a return to the old regime.
You come here pretending to be telling us "truth" yet you come here telling us ANC intended to go after civillians ..that's where your argument falls flat with me, that and your lack of recognition for WHY they resorted to terrorism, or condemnation for their oppressors..Its ok to be Contrarian..but please have concrete arguments beyond buzz words like "terrorist","communist"...this is not the 50s, we are not so easily fooled anymore......You also seem to have selective amnesia.."Why did Mandela and the ANC resort to terrorism, after numerous attempts to ensure equal rights for all SA citizens...
Tell me, how will you feel if you have been stripped of all human dignity, forced to carry passes while visiting a certain area, having your neighbourhood raided by police, arrested by death squads when you voice displeasure with the way you are being treated, having a boy as young as your son calling you "boy"....I guess you will never understand since you tend to feel you were better off back then.
...BUT let me humor you again and pretend you are right in everything you say...question still stands, what good is this for society when the man in question has done more to unite South Africans in his left toenail than some of you propagandists here. The man could have resorted to "terrorism" or established "reverse apartheid" (please please don't tell me we have reverse apartheid now until you have been subjected to the humiliation of the paragraph above"...People, White, black, Colored, Indians love Mandela because he made people feel they belong...Pity the apartheid dumb asses thought differently and may they continue to rot in the dustbin of history....BUT
Live and let live...most South Africans want to get on with the new South Africa and many are united in condeming apartheid and indeed the mismanagement of the new government...but don't come here and sell us used cars, spreading hatred and division all disguised as "truth"
We all can read now unlike during the aparthied times when we were forced into Bantu education.
Good people, whites and blacks have worked tirelessly to buck the trend.
***** Yah. But you didn't deny anything I said did you?
It is a sad thing but what could have blacks and non whites done in order for it to change. The government may not have bothered changing it if everything was peaceful and the whites lived happily with their wealth. It would be my wish for no one to have died but how would it have ended? Mandela in his autobiography said he didn't want to turn to violence but the government was not listening to talk and was not open to negotiations. It was to an extent where anti-apartheid organizations were banned and that did not stop until 1988 or 1989 when De Klerk delegalized them and they could be political parties. Mandela said that he was involved or knew of bombings in plants and at some stage a few workers were killed but it was never the intention to kill and they would always do it at times when workers were not around although on one or two occasions they misjudged and a few were killed. He stated that he didn't see any way around doing that for the government to listen.
Bye bye
Does anybody commenting here understand communism - I don't think so.
mandela didn't kill shit 😂
This guy is definitely Scottish. 😆😆😆
It's not a great loss for humanity - He has done great things earlier - but he is old and we all die at some time.
Nelson Mandela is a former terrorist. He was the founder of Umkhonto we Siswe, ANC’s terrorist arm. He never condemned that organization’s acts of indiscriminate terrorism against civilians. The ANC was classified as a terrorist organization by the United States of America and the United Kingdom. Mandela was also responsible for signing off on the Church Street bombing in Pretoria 1983, which killed 19 and wounded more than 200, mostly families in a busy shopping street during rush hour.
Whether you see the man as a 'terrorist' or freedom fighter, whatever your view is. No one can deny that he stood up for what he believed in, suffered and made a very big impact not just on South Africa, but the entire world! Very few people would have the will to do what he did, what a brave man!
Well, if you consider the context of the history of South Africa... Think how many black people have been killed and made to suffer under minorty white rule for the past 300 years. That is not to suggest either actions are right, but it certainly shows the motive.
Apartheid South Africa regime was the terrorists : don't change the roles
His accent is horrible sorry...
Your existence is terrible sorry
South Africa has become a third world country thanks to mr Mandela
what a foolish person you are! disgusting!
Mr. zonnekat1, are you sure you know of what you are talking about?. Uno de los muy pocos gigantes del siglo 20 y el unico premio Nobel de la Paz que siendo "terrorista" fue presidente de un pais, no quiso reelegirse y fue apenas en el ano 2008 que dejo de ser terrorista. Me imagino que usted perfectamente bien quien o quienes le endilgan los titulos de terroristas a las personas o los pueblos.
HANO koko, yes and you are the shit that comes off it :)
zonnekat1 That is an incredibly ignorant statement. Please do not blame Mandela for the current state of the country. You cannot even blame Mbeke. Our current state is clearly a result of Jacob Zuma and his colleagues like Mantashe and Ramaphosa.
let it become a 10th world country, so long the black natives of the land will walk free, eat free and trade free among themselves.