Nelson Mandela the reasons that led him to become a rebel
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He was already a figure from the past; one "retired from retirement", as he put it, since 2004. He was painfully frail and, for the most part, out of sight. He played no continuing part in the new South Africa. He existed, through the final cruel months of illness, in a parallel world beyond politics. And yet Nelson Mandela's passing, and the torrent of grief and tributes that has followed it, show something quite extraordinary: the power of example, the power of legend, a power that still lives.
In a sense, the world knows Mandela's story too well to be astounded by it afresh. It knows how, in his youth, he embraced the fight against apartheid and reached for the bullet and the bomb. It remembers his 27 years of incarceration and the defiant, unquenchable spirit he showed from behind bars when he greeted Soweto's uprising:
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We who are confined within the grey walls of the Pretoria regime's prisons reach out to our people. With you, we count those who have perished by means of the gun and the hangman's noose. We salute all of you – the living, the injured and the dead. For you have dared to rise up against the tyrant's might… Fight on! Between the anvil of united mass action and the hammer of the armed struggle, we shall crush apartheid and white minority racist rule."
Mandela was neither some passive, word-spinning proponent of eventual liberation, nor a plaster saint. He was a warrior. But, in the end, he knew how to make peace and to heal wounds. The years inside Robben Island, Pollsmoor and Victor Verster did not embitter or crush him. They made him the statesman who finally steered South Africa to a new future. They showed how remarkable he was.
Of course, for the millions of young people around the globe born in the 23 years since Mandela's release, the horror of apartheid can feel like a musty, second-hand memory.