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Even today, many South Africans watch their freedom fighters: Nelson Mandela left his people with hope. (DAI KUROKAWA / DPA)
Unemployment, poverty and corruption determine daily life in South Africa. But the nation has challenged basic social evil: a birthday present for Nelson Mandela.
If detainees like grandmothers knit colorful doilies and radio broadcasters as gang members, there is only one reason: Nelson Mandela Day. Whatever happens around July 18th and invokes the national heroes of South Africa, it is for a good cause. "Madiba" would have celebrated its 100th anniversary this year – for the Nelson Mandela Foundation "a unique opportunity for all citizens of the world to reflect on his life and preserve his heritage". That's what South Africans think.
Multilayer and Radiant
"A guy just can not decide," the indignant professor told the director. When asked what would become of him later, the student wrote: "Lawyer, activist, freedom fighter, political prisoner, president, reconciler, visionary and icon of the 20th century. " At the forefront of the village school lies carefully, wrapped in a blanket, the young Nelson Mandela. The cartoon by South African cartoonist Zapiro is a classic, and best recalls the work of the anti-apartheid fighter. The 2013 Nobel Peace Prize laureate was multilayered and radiant. These are the characteristics that also apply to his latest breeding rose, says botanist Keith Kirsten. He met Mandela in 1993 at a tree plantation in Alexandra Township and was delighted with the man who would become President of South Africa a year ago. later. In order to capture the "brightness of Madibas", he raised the brilliant "Mandela-Rose" of orange
Almost none of them comes to Mandela in South Africa these days: Occasion of the 100th anniversary. In this document, former employees, friends and former companions talk about their time with the father of the state. The Central Bank of South Africa brings new notes with outstanding Mandela counterpart for the anniversary. And under the motto "Shave to remember", South Africans are called to cut the heights of Mandela's youth – men and women.
But why the hype of Mandela? In no other country is there a former democratically elected leader as venerated as in South Africa. The answer may be in the second name of Mandela Rolihlahla. Translated, it means something like "shaking the branch of a tree" – or simply "troublemaker". Mandela has always remained true to his birth name in matters of human rights and equal rights. A rural childhood, marked by harpoon fights and goat rearing, was followed by a tumultuous onset of urban life: Mandela landed in the southwestern townships (Soweto), the most large poor colony of South Africa. There, he became involved for the first time politically. He started law school. In 1942 he joined the African National Congress (ANC) and founded his youth league. When the National Party (NP) came to power six years later, apartheid became a government program. Nelson Mandela took the armed struggle against the regime. The racists denounced him as a terrorist and sentenced him to life imprisonment
"For the first time in my lawsuit, I met him personally," Dennis Goldberg, who was sentenced with Mandela in 1962, "He called me boy, because I was 15 years younger than him, and I called him Nel. It was a warm and friendly relationship, even though I respected him for his leadership. "In the late 1980s, the pressure on the white diet increased and in 1990 Mandela was released.That is only now that time Made Madiba the hero of all South Africans, black and white Instead of revenge, Mandela sought contact with his former oppressors He drank tea with the widow of the founder of apartheid Hendrik Verwoerd visited his former prison guard and went to the services of the Dutch Reformed Church, who openly ruled racial segregation. When he was elected the first black president of South Africa in 1994, he took his great political rival with him into a national unity government. Some have seen fraternization with skepticism. Years later, former Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe said, "Mandela wanted nothing more than freedom and forgot why he was in prison." But Mandela made it clear that he wanted to be president of all South Africans. : "Never, never, never more one group will dominate on the other in this beautiful land.
The freedom fighter never wanted a vacation, instead Mandela claimed A Day of Action: Mandela's Day A tradition that may seem strange to Europeans, but that makes sense when we look at South Africa's congested health system, is a free surgery. The spirit of Mandela also struck in the prison near the capital Pretoria. Hundreds of prisoners knitted more than 4,000 blankets and combined them into a gigantic Mandela painting. On Mandela's day, they should be given to the needy. "Maybe I'm in prison, but this idea has given me the feeling of freedom," said the convicted Lucas Booysen.
After the celebration, he said: Return to everyday life in a nation politically severely beaten. One in four South Africans does not have jobs and the economy is only slowly recovering from the reign of outraged President Jacob Zuma. He had led the emerging nation by latest corruption scandals on the economic side. He left people full of hope angry at politics. The bearer of hope is President Cyril Ramaphosa. In office since February, he made surprises when he appeared as a mediator in the township, in jogging pants or during violent protests. Observers are skeptical because they even surround Ramaphosa with colleagues from the compromised party and ministers of the Zuma era. When he returns it, the ANC threatens to tear it up. If he sticks to them, it could damage the reputation of South Africa. Like Mandela 24 years ago, Ramaphosa is obliged to make compromises
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