CONSTITUTIONAL COMMENTARY AND EVENTS

Tomorrow we celebrate the 100th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth.  

He was rightly acknowledged by the whole world as one of the greatest leaders of the latter part of the 20th century – and he was certainly one of the most impressive people that I met during my long political career.  He had enormous charm, charisma and the natural self-assurance of a born aristocrat. He had steel-like self-discipline and determination that he gained during the long and bitter years of his imprisonment.  Above all he had an unshakable commitment to the goals of the African National Congress and to the establishment of a non-racial democratic South Africa.