The statue of Nelson Mandela stands loud and proud next to Winston Churchil and Abraham Lincoln right in Parliament Square in England.
The statue looks great, in fact it looks better than the rubbish statue in Sandton Square. Gordon Brown allegedly noted that Mandela is the greatest leader of our time. What a phenomenal achievement for the greatest leader that SA has ever seen (Sorry Thabo).
I really don’t understand why here in SA we can only manage to put a statue up of the man in a shopping centre, but in England he gets a statue in a relevant area like Parliament Square. Go figure. Then to make up for our poor showing of a statue we decide to call every street, bridge, nook and cranny “Nelson Mandela” whatever.
Here’s the video of the unveiling from Zoopy:
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