When people look back on Mandela’s last few years, they will read of a visit to his house by the ANC top six, as he winced in front of the flashing cameras and stared blankly ahead; of an ambulance that broke down and a 40-minute wait on the side of the road; of a Presidency that drip fed the public partial information as an urge to control trumped a duty to be forthright and, thus, that would repeatedly be embarrassed by a media which revealed more than the Presidency was willing to disclose; of political pamphlets being handed out outside his hospital; of the bodies of his nearest and dearest being exhumed and their bones driven around like play things; of family feuds, court cases and false affidavits and vicious personal attacks conveyed in front of the world; of rumour and hearsay; of vegetative states and the difference between life support and life assistance; and now, of a fight about funeral television rights...
Posted on: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:25:59 +0000
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