IT WAS A BITTERSWEET MOMENT for the eldest grandchild of Nelson Mandela.
While Ndileka Mandela was honoured to attend the opening of the park in her grandfather’s honour by the University of the West Indies (UWI) on Tuesday night, it occurred the same week as the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada, affectionately called Uncle Kathy, who was in the liberation struggle with Mandela.
“He died a broken man because the freedom that so many sacrificed for is being squandered by the current leadership,” she said, vowing not to sit back, because her granddad would not have.
As she brought greetings to the scores of people seated at the facility at Lower University Drive, the founder and chairman of the Thembekile Mandela Foundation said she could feel the presence of Mandela, the man she simply called “granddad”. (WILLCOMM)
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