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 rape. the unemployment and crime have slowed south africa's progress in the post mandela era. this nelson mandela square in sentiment is 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 him in net and named so many things from his dealings not common in any of my you know he has acquired the qualities of cutty of foresight wisdom basi if i may say so.

once things done it once and done as right now. madiba the father of the nation teaches his people the values of collective leadership respect benevolence and an eye for everyone's needs the our we were we would have been in big big trouble inside of reagan had it not been at that crucial moment in in the history of our country he was at the head of. might need them and their left to say that be a better life for all of us i think need the whole country to do that. god for the earth was we. reading it we sitting on a powder keg. and it is. something that

surprises me that those people have not by and. still no no no it's worlds apart sent from city and alexandra township one is the epitome of affluence and modernity the other deprivation and lacking development. sometimes they collide hotel managers pay township artists good money to paint pictures of their own misery it's a bitter reality manila's feel good democracy has become a high risk country i. say if. if i'm in town move on to the country give me in terms of. what many people in south africa

which. i'm sure. for all his life friendships. with it for a while are not so influential now. in london the museum and other xandra also has a small budget for educational courses. and he means a lot because you have done a lot to us. policy you know but the process of all things to slow. it conveys to the kids are not paying school fees. they're getting free education so we can see what they want their lives that are. worth it for why why do. they outperform this he's on. this monday has got that the when when when it comes in the food the food you could

feel the vibration it would feel about being the mandela micha our. alexandra has its own claim to fame i mean maybe nine hundred forty one else in monday live 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 the braised city here and they met interesting people. and met with people like walk to school and realise what life was like for the whole of the south africa. he says vision of. of a different life. necessary and you mention. in one nine hundred fifty five the african national congress the a.n.c.

issued to freedom charter in response to the boer regimes racist system were mastering it sounded what was said to sound on june twenty sixth one thousand for five so that forgotten about half a century later mandela's successor topple mbeki echoed its credo. on the outside groups that have equal rights. the perverts out set in the country as well as the lens are set up on those the way it was out friday. morning when the 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.

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 daughter. then since he was born and they were for. her. 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 peace and none better against the government was a bribe is on the rabbit text. to end when he had to look on as her husband and his comrades were arrested and put on trial for high treason mine has been fighting for their liberation of the computer rather which in time when you. looked into it and

in one thousand nine hundred sixty four came the verdict and when. we had to finish that we had the totals and that kept us very much along. the the. they were almost three decades later the legendary prisoner walked free stepped up to in front of the masses as an idle chatter six fish for one month was my prison number forty eight ten years. that are worse than peers and our brethren are not. our you are supposed to have been a curious. 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. they are. her own two through their painting barbara remember through or through all. the. leak your concept had 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 a prison cell phone with them and the twenty seven yes' fairly important

in helping the. suffering. has the capacity the possibility of making someone. i the most compassionate and caring or it can be tell you fortunately for us the suffering. helped now. 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. meanwhile the state terror continued in the headquarters of the secret police on the notorious forest a 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 monday it was 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. there followed years of cruelty. winnie mandela was next in the regime's firing line. that he never wanted

a good man get in there on that premise is implicit so they knew they were going to have to release him with some stage so i think that the structure of when he was really also. a planned way of distracting him of. the government's plan worked winnie mandela was embroiled in scandals affairs and murder cases. i have a feeling he she just lost control. over their hair their. head . positive greatness at the time of keeping him his name alive and trying to feel herself to be the person up there. 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 actor peter singer 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 whose victims are still present in art but who have all too often been forgotten in minds. among them patrick lakota he too was tortured he too was a prisoner on robben island. there was that says off the shores that said.

he loved to. come and inspect. it made you forget that you have too many years to spend if you could look at it enough just enough it's just fastened back quickly it's good because it had said 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 the way you are that 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 it will move to major political organisation or within the change of pace i have to be and not just the president think of it for the regime played for time the time was running out finally she

meant tomorrow we have to be i asked him. what would your site i am. live live 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 fifty. awful sight of the whole sky is nothing ever that u.k. and measure. against. for freedom i'm free. he was reunited with his people and his friends went caetano i bet you know walter sisulu there was no embrace for when he was. featured.

was. going to have led to this crisis. in the field to fifth. london in the summer of one nine hundred ninety i know nelson mandela was an icon. warm so i stepped out of prison just. as a member of the thirty. and whatever expectations i may. fail with that he made still me not as an individual bought as a moth as

a member of the. 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 in secure. not having enough money to manage a lifestyle which was expected of him and then again that has never been able to save money for the twenty eight years that he was imprisoned. everybody's been very kind since he's been out with fever poor almost mollycoddled. in the way he lives and. a family.

and. he was to find no joy in winnie mandela as a pillar 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 be united. in the political realist now over seventy was deluded in private. he really loved her when she got up to walk to say the table that he couldn't take is. on good days his wife made him breakfast. when his daughter's a nanny got married my belly 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 of a happy family. 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 and his lawyer stood by her. it's 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 posed to being broken. when he had to give us weenie 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. i wonder. close. the trade in my view. about this a lot about it and say i agree. 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 the style even the wives of former oppressors were invited to his perplexed friend of mine dealer responded tough to. why what we should do could get. cut so much have to continue what do i have got to say so you had something to say today mrs said don't leave my side mr state. to the disgust of everybody it's. serious i think for him the key thing was to bring to unite south africa's. deep at the time. in 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. whether it is with. the the the the victims. and the government. today the rainbow nation is suffering from a devastating in china the aids epidemic. the number of orphans has been rising with a number of. for a long time the government of tombo mbeki neglected the fight against aids. to help the millions of impoverished orphans mandela founded his children's fund and demanded generic drugs for those infected. addicts with

a. different a few with more yes and actually it would be given and much of that to try to fund nacho. sat back. and defended. the nelson mandela children's fund is located just a short drive away from the monday the foundation celebrations are held on the founders birthday. or world for a world for horde war and they are all very useful or. the fund was set up to collect donations develop projects and distribute resources. but its glossy image is not without its critics. why. such

a long way you know just cannot afford them and even told the people you see those people busting their engine room when you have caught the own money like murder thousands who don't have money we need the thing but he's still going to pull away from us. so their approach is to go into communities identify often to live with families often to adopt families and they support into the families so the selection criteria is reviewed by community. the children's funds annual report shows just how successful its global fund raising activities are. even on the it's what's in there to help donate some money the world gave him very easily he didn't even have to ask but he did and he would always ask for money for it not for himself personally but for the foundation although he doesn't spell it out like that he said i need. a million two million ten million i mean you

would get it if it was collected for the children's fund and then it would be made in the name of the children's fund and it would be handed over to the children's fund which was collected for the nelson mandela foundation the check would be in the name of the nelson mandela foundation and that money would go directly to the nelson mandela foundation if the check was made out to. notes mandela between two so all of the professions and. i think the bulk of it was made up to nelson and. her son you know who said. always for the course we need for the cause you can bet never for you only for the people. and that is something my dba i mean that has lived through

with many of us watching you do what you like because that you'd like to get to and give and take turned into just take privileged groups have forgotten to share much too much he was displeasure. but life has its good sometimes to. the best father ever. i particularly never thought we would ever see this day read that he would be president and to see him celebrate his eightieth birthday with everything that happened in prison. and also i want to thank the lord for sending us more mark of. mandela's eightieth birthday was special in more ways than one of his daughters got a second mother in gaza michele five years after his divorce from winnie nelson mandela married a third time this is a very mature relationship. very much but you appear to believe then that this is your beheaded with it with somewhat her first husband mozambique's president some

more of michelle died in one thousand nine hundred six i would never question his love for when he never questions might have was too much but we are friends. it's not easy. for tempting ten years off my mother except to say that i am happy or of head down wife and i can i was in one thousand nine hundred eight monday where bid farewell to the political stage and dedicated himself to fundraising. paintings foundation.