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MANDELA’S TOP-TEN-TIPS FOR GREATNESS

‘A Long Walk To Freedom’ is Nelson Mandela’s autobiography. It was written by himself in the crucible of his suffering, and not in the relative ease of his later years. It tells us what he really believes and feels, without fear, favor or prejudice; as such it provides us with Mandela’s blueprint for greatness.
Here, in my opinion, are the top ten characteristics of greatness as recorded and lived by the great man himself:

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PROLOGUE & CHAPTER ONE

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‘When darkness comes we leave our hiding place. The sheep stand like ghosts as we run past them, heading for the road. The rain has stopped but clouds block the moon, nyanga. It breaks through on and off like silver torchlight, but it doesn’t matter. We keep going. It’s almost midnight and these farmers are in bed. They’ve eaten well, from their Saturday afternoon braaivleis, and they’re sleeping. A dirt road outside of Bredasdorp, a quiet road, a late hour and all the world’s asleep. Except for the two of us – my older brother Sipho, and me.’

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I AM PREPARED TO DIE!

Kill Mandela / John Mountford

Nelson Mandela’s statement from the dock at the start of the Rivonia Trial took him two weeks to prepare and four hours to read, but it was the last sentence that stunned the courtroom into a thirty second silence: “But if it needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”

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