What my great-granddad, Nelson Mandela, would make of 2020 South Africa
Pumla is recalling the day, in 2013, when sheThe former South African president is - for most of the world - a symbol of triumph over oppression. But for 26 year-old Pumla he was also family.
The poem Pumla read at the memorial said,"you are lodged in our memories, you tower over the world like a comet.""He was the man who was always reading newspapers or that we'd have lunch with with. "We always thought he pretended to have hearing problems. He would pick and choose. Sometimes you'd have to speak loudly and sometimes you'd be speaking softly and he'd just input.Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison
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