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Raymond Suttner worked with Nelson Mandela when he was first released from prison. He was actively involved in the liberation struggle against apartheid, both in legal political activities and illegal underground work. He is a former political prisoner, underground operative and leader in the ANC, SACP and UDF. Currently he is a professor attached to Rhodes University and UNISA. Suttner's blog posts can be found at http://raymondsuttner.com/.
Reflections on Mandela by a South African who was there
"I was not born with a hunger to be free," Nelson Mandela writes in his autobiography. He immediately explains, "I was born free - free in every way that I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother's hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls. As long as I obeyed my father and abided by the customs of my tribe, I was not troubled by the laws of man or God."
This is part of his reflection and frank assessment of how his life unfolded. Like all of us, Mandela was free in every way that was within his imagination or visible in the world he inhabited...
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13. December 2013
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