Close by a TV crew is poised on a tall crane hired for the day.
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Huge red chunks of watermelon with an incredibly green skin fill a cooler bag in the boot.
And to tell a grand story, it is good to begin with the small details.
The rough framework for our relationship, Madiba and I, is simple but there’s more, much more. How do I put into perspective just how Madiba has changed the framework of my life? I am at primary school when he is jailed in the ’60s, we whisper his name in the underground movement when I awaken to politics in the ’70s and he is the pinnacle of our hopes in the violent ’80s. The government seems to think that the weekend is the best time to control the crowds who will take to the streets to see for themselves that Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is finally a free man. It is a Saturday and it can only mean one thing,” a colleague in Stockholm tells me. “De Klerk will have a press conference this afternoon. A couple of months later, back home in Cape Town, I get the phone call I have been expecting for months. My thrill at being there when Walter Sisulu and other ANC leaders are released and the giddy days and nights in Lusaka are just precursors of the main event, the release of Nelson Mandela. As we commemorate Madiba’s release from prison in 1990, it’s as relevant now as it was then. It has since been included in The Keeper of the Kumm published by Tafelberg in 2016. This piece first appeared in Stockholm’s Expressen newspaper.
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