you know honor of his royal ancestors the national hero also attends traditional ceremonies with these people. are people have experienced a lot of light and a lot of darkness throughout their history the same is true of our leaders are some were wise and courageous others. he's quite. he's a mix he has the arrogance of royalty but he's also amazingly humble. my mother said it is quiet dignity that is the real measure of a person. her mother and son had to leave the homestead early on and diller's father the clan chief was in a dispute with the british colonial authorities he died soon afterwards because the king became the guardian of nelson mandela.

the young hot head anxiously awaited the circumcision ritual he wanted to become a man and to step forward from the second rank of the royal family he confided in his mother i want to give you and our people freedom and prosperity he is someone who. maisie's that he has been given a wonderful privilege to be a leader and for him one of the most important attributes of a leader is that you. for the sake of the leg wound and i was like it. was. the you have such. confound the prophets of the. blood not the pollution. we have restored the dignity of every

south african in this company. nelson mandela has had bridges roads and squares named after his pressure the well heeled suburbs of johannesburg. black liberation icons are all the rage. drillers lawyers officers and mentions lined the streets all of them on guard and treated with security systems and that includes the nelson mandela foundation. mandela's third wife michelle runs the foundation along with the director for the grand old man still made any decisions is unclear i will work really revolves around the system and it's called the center of memory and dialogue the expectation is that now liberate a country we have majority rule we should have houses where everyone should have

cars for everyone jobs everyone and they forget that all of that is going to take a long long time jogging would be that we see ourselves as a catalyst for social change. in the city of johannesburg can be a nerve wracking place to live. no other town in south africa has such a high incidence of assault burglary and great. unemployment and crime have slowed south africa's progress in the post mandela era. this nelson mandela square in center news a pleasant place this is where the rich and beautiful meet along with those who aspire to join the elite club. the father of the nation is a source of inspiration his charm and presence electrified the masses feeding expectations of a better life. to

them indeed. i can explain the way he is to me on the way out i look at human net and named so many things from his daily custom and i need my you know he has got the qualities of cut age of foresight wisdom boss if i may say so. once things done it once and done and back now. to madiba the father of the nation teaches his people the values of collective leadership respect benevolence and an eye for everyone's needs the iwas we would have been in big big trouble in south africa headed not being at that crucial moment in in the history of our country he was at the head of.

mike needham and gathered to say that the a better life for all of us becky needs the whole country to do that was for the oh we. really need we sitting on a powder keg. and it is. something that surprises me that those people have not by the. base no no no no no the streets worlds apart central city and alexandra township one is the epitome of affluence and modernity the other of deprivation and lacking development. sometimes they collide hotel managers great talent your heart is screwed money to paint pictures of their own misery it's a bitter reality mandela's feel good democracy has become a high risk country i'm. not.

sure if you. ever met in town it's never over the country gave an intern at the moment. there are many people in south africa which. share. those last three chips. with fifty for a while are not obscene fortune to. come under the museum and xandra also has a small budget for educational courses. and he means a lot because you have done a lot to us. housing you know but the process of all things to slow. it can be used to bake cookies and not paying school fees. they're getting free education so we can see what i will have that. it's.

worth it for a while why do. they outperform the he's a. let's mundo ask about the when when when it comes in the food you could you could feel the vibration it would feel about being the mandela micha our. alexandra has its own claim to fame in may nine hundred forty one nelson mandela moved into seventh street in the township. there was no running water there was no electricity still he and his friend justice felt like they were in seventh heaven they breezed city here and they met interesting people. and met with people like walter sisulu and realise what life was like for the whole of

the south africa. he said vision of a different life sixteen. necessary and you mention. in one nine hundred fifty five the african national congress the a.n.c. issued the freedom charter in response to the boer regimes racist system where my city gets under what was said in ships on june twenty sixth one thousand for five so that forgot to laugh a century later mandela successor topple mbeki echoed its credo. on the outside groups that have equal rights. the good what's outside in the country is whether the lens are set up man goes the way it was for. yourself when he mandela and nelson mandela now divorced once formed the glorious figurehead of the south african liberation movement.

when forty year old mandela led his bride sixteen years his junior to the altar her father said it's not love you're marrying my child but struggle. you. her husband was facing charges of high treason as in his first marriage he was hardly able to provide for his family but they were happy. first came their daughters in. him since he was born and there were four of . us. but these were bloody times and schonfeld in one nine hundred sixty police officers fatally shot seventy two black demonstrators. that are many people feel that it is useless and. asked to continue talking to someone better. the government was

a bra is bob it's a text. to end when he had to look on as her husband and his comrades were arrested and put on trial for high treason my husband has been fighting for the liberation of. father which i'm wondering. if and in one thousand nine hundred four came the verdict and when they said. we had to finish that we had been victorious and that chapter is very much along. the the. the evil most three decades later the legendary prisoner walked free step down in front of the masses as an idle chatter surfaced through emma was my prison member for vacation years. that i was imprisoned by brethren are not. the are supposed to be

a very curious group that number theory were . on the ferry to robben island where monday was imprisoned visitors are shown videos of him during the first years of his twenty seven year incarceration. was. that first his new life was unbearable was that. they. heard a long term through their being turned back for remember through or through all interested was the.

concept but it him and. they were states when they had the foresight they were kidding people. they also knew what was possible and possible but they insisted on being with the prison this self-will with them and the twenty seven yes' fairly important in helping him to. suffering has the capacity the possibility of making someone. compassionate and caring or it can be tell you fortunately for us the suffering. helped nelson mandela too because the. first years were pure torture the idea was to consign the prisoners to oblivion to have them forgotten even by their families letters were routinely burned or censored or

and. meanwhile the state terror continued in the headquarters of the secret police on the notorious forced to square in johannesburg prisoners were tortured and killed. the regime was out of control. the nelson mandela foundation has valuable materials from this time. a secret service employee returned one of mondale's confiscated notebooks. security . you contains handwritten copies of letters he wrote on robben island. historians are preparing the documents for publication so the next generation can find out what it was like. if.

it. was created. there followed years of cruelty. winnie mandela was next in the regime's firing line. that he never wanted a good mandela in there on their premises. so they knew they were going to have to release him that some stage so i think that that structure of when he was really also. planned way of destructive. the government's plan worked when he mandela was embroiled in scandals affairs and murder cases.

i have a feeling she she just lost control. oh that's where their. head . positive greatness at the time of keeping him his name alive and trying to feel himself to be this and that. when even della attended a memorial march for the victims of the student revolt in soweto in one nine hundred seventy six she was right at the front when hector pieterson became the first of many children to be shot dead by the police as ex-president mickey bows down in honor of the victims he knows how many of these young protesters are now part of the last generation of the townships and he says. remembering so we're doing a five star hotel with the rich and beautiful a crash course in history death drama resistance

a state of emergency deliberation hero as a spectator of history has picked him as are still present in art but who have all too often been forgotten in life. among them patrick lakota he too was tortured he too was a prisoner on robben island. it was that sins of the shark that said that. he loved to. companies that. it made you forget that you have too many years to spend. if you look at it you know just enough is just fastened back quickly it's good present have saved it quickly and that it's in this is that it is and this is. the step that you should be doing what is happening you should be where you were it is the only way in which you can get. behind the scenes mandela and the a.n.c. had long been pulling the strings he was transferred to

a prison farm on the cape. but wouldn't those two major political have been the basis or within the change of pace i have me and not just the president think of it for the regime played for time for time was running out of enemies human tomorrow we have three and i asked him. what would you cite i am living the winds of change were blowing f.w. de klerk became president by february nine hundred ninety apartheid was a thing of the past and nelson mandela a free man all i saw of the top. off the side of the political scene is nothing ever. that u.k. and measure. against. for freedom i'm

free. he was reunited with his people and his friends often caetano about kenya and walter sisulu there was no embrace for when he was underlined featured. was. he dressed like jesus christ. in the field to fifth. london in the summer of one nine hundred ninety by now nelson mandela was an icon of the world over.

one side step out of his. work as a member of the thirty. and what stations are. there with that he made still me not as an instigator of pot as a mouth as a member of a. monday the megastar his autobiography was a best seller for months exclusive editions one for astronomical prices. and. nine hundred ninety four he had no. income he also felt that he had to support himself i suspect that he was also in secure. not having enough money to many child i still have which was expected of him and then again i has never been able to save money for the twenty eight years that he

was in prison and. everybody's been very kind since he's been up to prison fever poor almost mollycoddled. in the way he lives and. a family. gag. he was to find no joy in winnie mandela spiller in soweto. the bedroom was occupied by her lover. but nelson mandela didn't want to give up the love that had kept him going in times of need the masses also wanted to see their idols happily reunited. in a political realist now over seventy was deluded in private. he really loved what she got up to walk to say the table that

he couldn't take is i. on good days his wife made him breakfast. when his daughter is a nanny got married mandela went all out to make up for his feelings of having failed as a husband and father. the glamorous wedding was also a farewell to his own personal delusion not a happy family and. once again nelson mandela showed great generosity despite his pain he accompanied his wife who held her lover's hand to her trial where she was charged with accessory to murder despite all the evidence he knew and his lawyer stood by her. if the fact that she was there was a reason for having done what she did and he was probably the reason not being there by his side it's not the emotional makeup to say such as

he was opposed to being broken. where he had to give was sweeney that was the biggest price he has he paid. for liberation. so we turned to the people for solace. despite all the euphoria deliberation process was still fragile. nelson mandela and f.w. de klerk were awarded the nobel peace prize. and finally in april one thousand nine hundred four the first free elections were held. it was south africa's finest hour the clerk was gone one day was the new president his daughter congratulated him and his ex-wife lavished pieces on the vice president. by one.

close. in the face of my view and because. of that there's a lot about him saying. to everyone's delight president mandela created the feel good democracy of south africa queen elizabeth the second made him an honorary member of the order of merit. for. his friend bill clinton was the first state visit or reconciliation monday in the style even the wives of former oppressors were invited to his perplexed friend mandela responded to talk to . the wife which we should. cut so much of to continue what you're going to say so you tried something to say today mrs wood said don't leave my side mr mandela to stay. here to the disgust of everybody.

she was going to i think for him the key thing was to bring to unite south africa's . deep at the time. and hearings of the truth and reconciliation commission terrible things came to light the father of the nation heard of the sufferings of the victims and the motives of the perpetrators he saw his friend a man of god despair. we cood he. amnesty immediately treated us. whereas with regard to the the the the the victims we could only. recommend to the government. today the rainbow nation is suffering from a devastating aids epidemic. the number of orphans has been rising

with a number of picked. for a long time the government of tom bowman becky neglected to fight against aids. to help the millions of impoverished orphans mandela founded his children's fund and demanded generic drugs for those infected. if parents with they had been given a few more yes and actually it would be given and much of that to upper trying it for not. satisfied. and developed. the nelson mandela children's fund is located just a short drive away from the mundial a foundation celebrations are held on the founders birthday. or four zero four zero zero zero zero zero zero or zero. zero three in your stowaway. the fund was set up to collect

donations develop projects and distribute resources. but its glossy image is not without its critics. why would such a way you know is paid not. given to local people will see those people just going there and will have caught the. bug word of thousands and we need them but he's still going to.