TRIBUTE TO MANDELA
Passing of former South African
President, Mr Nelson Mandela on
05 December 2013
The Banking Association South Africa
I
t is with heavy hearts and a profound sense of loss that The
Banking Association South Africa learned of the death of
former President Nelson Mandela, the giant of the liberation
struggle and the founding father of our democracy.
Nelson Mandela was a man of great moral and strategic
vision who committed his life to leading the struggle to end
apartheid. He was a man of principle and humility, whose
pursuit of a multi-racial, non-sexist and all-inclusive South
Africa never wavered through the 27 years of his imprisonment.
Nelson Mandela lived to become a free man and to see his vision
become a reality. South Africa has lost a father and the rest of
the world has lost an icon who worked tirelessly to make this a
better world. Madiba instilled the values of non-racism, honesty
and selflessness into the democracy he led as the first universally
elected President of South Africa.
The opportunity is rarely given to a people that they should
produce a single person who epitomises their hopes and expresses
their common resolve as Nelson Mandela did. In simple language,
he could convey the aspirations of all South Africans in their
magnificent variety, explain their fears and prejudices and sense
the feelings of even the most humble.
Nelson Mandela may have departed, but he has left us a legacy
that will live on in the millions who continue to defend and
advance the freedoms, the values and ideals for which he stood.
It is a legacy of courage, conviction and a belief in the equality
of all people.
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