![]() ![]() I moved in circles where common sense and practical experience were important, and where high academic qualifications were not necessarily decisive. many of them left the lecture room straight to some cosy job, with a steady income and carrying a measure of influence, It is also true that graduates do enjoy the respect of the community especially in the field of education.īut my experience was quite different. In a sense that was true of the majority of Fort Hare students. At college I have come to believe that as a graduate I would automatically be at the head, leading my people in all their efforts. In the early 40s what struck me forcefully was the conflict between my expectations and actual experience. At the age of 69 years this will be a very difficult undertaking indeed. If I am compelled to attempt the course, I will have to start right from the beginning. Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless state them openly.Īlthough I obtained a pass in this subject in the matriculation examinations, and in spite of the fact I passed a special course in the same subject at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1955, I have forgotten practically everything about it. if people say ‘We must go on action’, very few people will say ‘Have we got the resources? Have we made sufficient preparations? Are we in a potision to undertake this action?’ Some people like to give an impression of being militant and therefore not to face the problems, especially if they are the type of problems which are going to make you unpopular. For example, you know, in politics there are very sensitive issues and people normally don’t want an unpopular approach. I never forgot that, you see, and I accepted that if you have a problem, you must face it and not gloss over it. Deal with a problem which arises face it courageously.‘ That was the moral. And he says, the moral was ‘ Don’t run away from your problems face them! Because if you don’t deal with them, they will always be with you. ![]() He thought he was leaving them behind he actually came along with them. Along the way, he met a friend and the friend asked, ‘Where are you going?’ Before he answered, a voice came out of the wagon, ‘We are trekking, we are leaving out kraal.’ It was one of the evil spirits. Then he decided to leave his kraal, packed all his things on a wagon and started driving away to settle elsewhere. He did everything to drive them out, but he failed. He once gave a sermon a man whose house was hunted by evil spirits. Conversation with myself by Nelson Mandela ![]()
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