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Gandhi’s granddaughter remembers Mandela
DURBAN – Like so many who knew Nelson Mandela personally, it’s been a painful time for Ela Gandhi, granddaughter of Indian independence movement leader Mohandas Gandhi. “I think each one made their own personal contribution.” The 73-year-old describes it as a surreal experience. “Even though he was ill and everybody expected this to happen, unlike with my grandfather who was assassinated and it was a shock, this too came to us as a real shock, so it feels like there’s an emptiness, there’s a vacuum,” Gandhi said. Madiba’s legacy has been compared to that of Ela’s grandfather, but she pointed out the two were very different....
Read MoreHappy New Year to Everybody!
Wishing everybody a healthy, happy, and awakened new year 2014! “Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.” MK Gandhi Share us on:ShareTweet Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...
Read MoreMandela’s Long Walk, Reviewed in Context
Preparing for the maiden voyage of the Gandhi Legacy South Africa tour while living during the historical imperatives of Mandela’s life and passing has been an uncanny quantum event for us. Time magazine called Mandela one of “Gandhi’s children” but when we set about initially to foster our Gandhi Satyagraha South Africa tour we did not imagine the increasing importance of Mandela and our melding of the two great statesmen of peace who would awaken there. The challenges of making effective biopics are many, from the trap of hero worship to the importance of capturing a great person’s life in just two hours. These challenges are magnified when the film is about Nelson...
Read MoreMK Gandhi Quote
“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the ‘still small voice’ within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.” MK Gandhi Share us on:ShareTweet Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit Click to print (Opens in new window) Print Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...
Read MoreTribute to Nelson Mandela from Ahmed Kathrada
Media release Subject: Tribute to Nelson Mandela from Ahmed Kathrada Date: 6 December 2013 Distributed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation on behalf of Mr Ahmed Kathrada Madala, as you light-heartedly started calling me some years ago, it both grieves me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We called each other ‘Madala’ – old man – it became our standard form of informal address. To me it signifies mutual trust, respect, liking and close comradeship. In a wider sense, this one word brings out much more. It encapsulates the foundation of the very qualities that set you apart from other men....
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