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Explores the value of honesty through the lens of Nelson Mandela. An anti-apartheid freedom fighter who became South Africa's president, Nelson Mandela exemplified honesty by standing up for what he believed in, even when it was difficult. Vivid images and a helpful diagram will aid in comprehension. Additional features include a table of contents, sidebars, critical thinking questions, Fast Facts, an activity for further learning, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, an...

Explores the value of honesty through the lens of Nelson Mandela. An anti-apartheid freedom fighter who became South Africa's president, Nelson Mandela exemplified honesty by standing up for what he believed in, even when it was difficult. Vivid images and a helpful diagram will aid in comprehension. Additional features include a table of contents, sidebars, critical thinking questions, Fast Facts, an activity for further learning, a phonetic glossary, an index, an introduction to the author, and sources for further research.

There are a few pleasantries. He watched the big fight the night before and thinks the draw was probably fair though Benn was the spoiler and Eubank the scientific boxer. And then, sipping a white coffee, he begins to talk about the extraordinary and painfully difficult journey of which he is the helmsman, South Africa’s transition to democracy.

You had a good press this morning, somebody says. I do not really have time to read the papers nowadays, he replies. He also regrets, in particular, that he no longer has time to read literature. When he was in prison, he thinks, he was better informed.

Surely he has no nostalgia for prison? Well, in Victor Verster, the last of the three prisons in which he was detained in conditions of relative comfort, he had some of his pleasantest moments and when he decided to upgrade the house in the village of his birth, Qunu, near Umtata in Transkei, he based it on the plan of his prison quarters. ”And so, whenever I go to my village, I think of my days in Victor Verster.”

Does he find people well informed about the situation in South Africa? Well, yes and no. In some parts of the international community, it is impressive. But he is irritated that in some Western quarters President F. W. de Klerk is seen as the sole architect of the current process.

In fact he (Mandela) began it in 1986 when still in prison. His first conversations were with ex-President Pieter de Botha. When de Klerk became President in 1989, matters remained difficult. It was not until February 1990, when de Klerk finally agreed to legalise the African National Congress, that negotiations could begin and he was freed.

He found a good understanding of this in the United States, where Bush if anything had had a better grasp than Clinton; in France, with President Mitterrand; and in the Nordic countries.

What about Britain? Of Mrs Thatcher he speaks with some affection. She stood firmly against racial oppression but he was un