Big ole long book this one! In the first fifty or so pages I wasn't sure I was going to make it through to the end. But then Mandela's story started to sync up with the history of South Africa and I got a bit more hooked. Nelson Mandela is like many great men. Determined, resolute, stubborn, and flawed. I'm not sure he would say anything else. Like so many in leadership there comes a point where family is neglected. In his latter years he fronts that up, in fact the whole book mellows. Its left me with a couple of questions. The first is around the way that Mandela deals with Winnie's downfall. He seems so supportive, and yet has no hesitation in binning her. I think its to his credit in some ways that he leaves out the details of intensely personal things.
My other question is slightly politically hertical. I can't help but winder if Nelson Mandela was orchestrated to come to power. As I understand it he was one of a number who went to jail. He was
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