Mandela, a legal practitioner by profession, threw away all the comforts associated with his status, and devoted his time to liberate man from unnecessary, denigration made possible by apartheid policies. He was quoted to have stressed the need for man to change himself before aspiring to effect a change in society. He asserts that the most difficult thing in life is to change oneself. In the Rovonia trial, Mandela shocked his lawyers and the world in his cross examination, when he publicly declared his preparedness to die for the course he believes in. Hear him: “I was prepared for the death penalty. To be truly prepared for something one must actually expect it. One cannot be prepared for something while secretly expecting that it will not happen”. This is the highest display of commitment coming from a man whose mental balance is in harmony with an action. Such men are truly in short supply. His towering image all over the world anchor not only on how he brought democracy to South Africa, but also on the sophistication of his thoughts about statesmanship as a stage where one plays his part and gives way for the next person to inject his own ideas about life
Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:52:38 +0000
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