‘What will children say to Madiba when the country is in chaos?’
Tokyo Sexwale accuses some leaders of giving the children poor material for the letters they will write to Nelson Mandela to commemorate his centenary
When children write to former president Nelson Mandela‚ commemorating his centenary over the next year and a half‚ businessman Tokyo Sexwale is curious to know what they will say. "What do you say when you are standing there with this chaos around us? The violent protests‚ Parliament breaking up. At Pirates‚ we don’t like what we saw. Orlando Pirates is one of the greatest teams in SA‚" he said after the team’s fans rushed onto the field and stopped play in a match against Mamelodi Sundowns at the weekend. Sexwale was speaking at the launch of the Nelson Mandela Centenary 2018 programme at the DOCC Hall‚ now the YMCA‚ in Orlando‚ Soweto‚ on Monday morning. Mandela‚ also a boxer‚ trained at this hall in the 1950s. The programme will honour Mandela’s centenary year‚ marking his birth on July 18 1918. Among the various events and projects planned‚ is the release of a book of letters to Mandela by children from all over the world. They are expected to write about their experiences growi...
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