The End of Apartheid (2014)
“Asked to look after him in the interval, I pointed out that, when it came to the performance by Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the entire audience would be expecting him to get up and dance, as he was accustomed to do in South Africa. Mandela was worried that this might offend the Queen, whom he greatly admired and had taken to calling ‘Elizabeth’ (not a form of address allowed to anyone else on the planet, except Prince Philip). But get up and dance he did in the Royal Box, with the Duke of Edinburg...h following suit – and then the Queen. This was not a feat that could have been accomplished by any other world leader.When the time came for Mandela to hand over as President, his own preferred candidate to succeed him was Cyril Ramaphosa, secretary-general of the ANC, who had played the leading role in negotiating the new constitution. The party hierarchy insisted on Thabo Mbeki, who had played no less crucial a role in the transition. Mbeki, however, was anxious to step out from the shadow of his predecessor and had anyway been running the government under him.MoreLess
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