How Nelson Mandela acquired his first BMW
The inside story of how BMW SA and Cyril Ramaphosa ‘sneaked’ an armoured 7 Series into Madiba’s service
25 June 2020 - 05:02
When former president Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, Chris Moerdyk was the head of strategic planning and public affairs at BMW SA.
Chris has been prolifically writing a Lockdown Diary on his Facebook page, and in Lockdown Diary 82 he tells the charming inside story of how Madiba came to acquire the use of a BMW 7 Series:..
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