Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela the father and grand father of our new South African nation. If more leaders follow in his foot steps for just a few steps we would have more monuments to the living and the triumph of man than to the dead and the remembrance of conflict. A kind man, a humorous man , a man with empathy but not, not a weak man.

I was doing business at the Cape Town waterfront and paused next to this statue to answer my phone. I decided to take a take a few pictures of the statues of Mandela , de Klerk and Tutu. An American tourist saw me taking pictures and handed me his camera and asked me to take some pictures with him next to the Mandela statue. He looked so proud to have his picture taken with OUR ex president that I felt quite humbled