Contents Private Life Digital – Special Edition 2013 3 TRIBUTE Private Life presents a visual tribute to former South African President and statesman, Nelson Mandela. 11 TAKING UP THE MANDELA MANDATE South Africans, inspired by Mandela’s legacy and message of peace and reconciliation, are driving an active citizenship agenda across the country. 19 IN HIS WORDS We take inspiration from Madiba’s words and insights. 23 ESSENTIAL READING Walk into any book store around the world and you can pick up a tome recalling Mandela’s deeds and words; here’s a selection of must read titles. 27 LIFE & TIMES An extraordinary life … “No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can Interactive elements: be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the This symbol represents an interactive element. Tap on the object the icon is referencing to human heart than its opposite.” engage the experience. - Nelson Mandela All web and email addresses are interactive, simply tap them to use. Gail Hoffmann Mark Seberini PUBLISHER DESIGN [email protected] [email protected] Cara Bouwer Bernice Blundell (CT) EDITORIAL ADVERTISING [email protected] [email protected] Photographs and illustrations in Private Life are sourced via Dreamstime, Stock.xchng, Shutterstock and iStock Photo Published by Eish Media for FNB Private Clients 25 Lonehill Mews, Lonehill, 2062, PO Box 1861, Lonehill, 2062 | Tel 083 297 5180 | Fax 011 465 5178 | Email [email protected] FNB Private Clients, 5 Merchant Place, 9 Fredman Drive, Sandton; Tel: 011 245 5000. For any comments or suggestions please email [email protected]. The views, opinions and products in Private Life are not endorsed by FNB Private Clients except where expressly stated. First National Bank – a division of FirstRand Bank Limited. An Authorised Financial Services and Credit Provider (NCRCP20) 2 TRIBUTE Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela By Cara Bouwer 3 alk to a South African for long enough and of calm. Overcome with the occasion, and the you’ll doubtless enjoy a crime-related man, I asked for an autograph which he was more Tanecdote to turn your blood to ice and than happy to provide; I still prize it today. a Nelson Mandela remembrance to warm your heart. In a country so beset by contradictions, Of course others have grander, more intimate the first democratically elected black president recollections of the man. Who wouldn’t have of the Republic achieved the seemingly wanted to be a fly on the wall when Madiba met impossible: uniting South Africans of all races, with the likes of pop star Michael Jackson, talk cultures, creeds and political beliefs behind the show queen Oprah Winfrey, U2 frontman Bona or compelling vision of a Rainbow Nation. A better Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi. And, most certainly, South Africa. as South Africans our collective consciousness and national identity has been shaped by his I’m no different. I like to relate how, aged just 19 words and deeds. in 1993, I met the great man at Linksfield Park Clinic in Johannesburg when I was working on the Much has been written over the years - and ward where his grandson was being treated for a specifically in recent weeks - about this modern- knife wound. Mandela descended on the hospital day icon. As the world celebrates Mandela Day to all the buzz and anticipation of a visiting rock this 18 July, many will again try to unpack the star, and the corridors around the nurses’ station ‘Mandela Legacy’. We’ll hopefully take from his were packed with staff and patients, all wanting life the message of peace and reconciliation to bask in the radiance of his very palpable aura which has become his hallmark. From the team at Private Life, these are some of our defining Mandela moments: On 21 May 1961, ITN reporter Brian Widlake speaks to Nelson Mandela about apartheid and the campaign to enfranchise South Africa’s black population. 4 Nelson Mandela speaks to the press after his release from prison on 11 February 1990. Ahead of the historic 1994 elections, American journalist Dan Rather speaks to Nelson Mandela and FW de Klerk. South Africa’s newly elected President, Nelson Mandela, delivers his inaugural address at the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 11 May 1994. 5 In this grainy, VHS clip, Nelson Mandela delivers an address at Harvard University in the United States on 18 September 1998, when he was presented with an honorary doctoral degree. Mandela was accompanied by his wife, Graça Machel. South Africa’s 1995 World Cup-winning captain, Francois Pienaar, recalls the impact that Nelson Mandela had on the historic rugby victory. Nelson Mandela meets Oscar- winning actress Charlize Theron, who became South Africa’s first Academy Award-winning actor in 2003 for her leading role in the film Monster. 6 Verne Harris, Head of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, interviews Nelson Mandela in 2005 for the launch of A Prisoner in the Garden, a visual history of Madiba’s 27 years in prison featuring previously unpublished images, documents and diary and letter extracts. The first Nelson Mandela International Day was celebrated on 18 July 2010. This video collage features excerpts from various speeches delivered by Mandela at the United Nations. American First Lady, Michelle Obama, remembers her 2011 meeting with Nelson Mandela. 7 TAKING UP THE MANDELA MANDATE On 18 July 2013 – the 4th Nelson Mandela International Day and 95th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth – the world is asked to stop, remember the South African statesman’s legacy and message of peace and reconciliation, and give 67 minutes of their time in selfless service, dedicated to his name. This year, more than any other, that call to social cohesion and active citizenship is resonating with South Africans and citizens from around the world. By CARA BOUWER Credit: Matthew Willman / Nelson Mandela Foundation Matthew Credit: t Mandela’s 90th birthday celebration human rights and social justice) on that day each in London’s Hyde Park in 2008, he year. Asounded a call to action: “It is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It is in your hands Supporters of the initiative around the world now.” A year later, the United Nations declared include the likes of former American President 18 July as Nelson Mandela International Day and Bill Clinton, Virgin founder Richard Branson and endorsed the concept of giving 67 minutes (for the Dalai Lama. Nowhere has the call been felt the 67 years Mandela gave of his life fighting for more keenly, however, than within South Africa. Tap to view - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon encourages the world to devote 67 minutes to helping others on Nelson Mandela International Day. 8 Celebrities, media personalities, radio stations, fundraisers to generate funds to purchase library businesses and educational institutions rally books or books in general, take time to paint and to the call each year embarking on a range of establish container libraries, categorise school initiatives from feeding the hungry, to painting libraries and spend time reading to learners. a school, reading to children or cleaning up the environment. The diversity of companies and More than a 67-minute commitment organisations, in particular, is heartwarming. For many South Africans, education is one of For example, in 2013, partners of Mandela Day the most significant areas of focus on Mandela 2013 include Bikers for Mandela Day, Cheese Day. One woman driving a concerted, nationwide Kids, Meals on Wheels, Pick ’n Pay, Rooms to campaign to improve education in South Africa Read, Stop Hunger Now, SAA, Tiger Brands, Kaya is Symphonia founder Louise van Rhyn. For her, FM, Lead SA, Ekurhuleni East College, Association 67 minutes once a year is all well and good but for Persons with Disabilities Free State and the systemic problems in South Africa require a Trek4Mandela. 365-day commitment. Companies like the FirstRand Group, of which “South Africa is at a crossroads – we can either FNB Private Clients forms part, enthusiastically decide that this is our future and that we want to Louise van Rhyn, founder of Symphonia, talks about mobilising citizens to become actively involved in addressing the education crisis in South Africa. rally the troops each Mandela Day. This year, be co-designers of our future or we can abdicate for example, 38 FirstRand business units will responsibility for the future and then we have donate both funds and time throughout July as to accept whatever happens. Madiba was very part of the Nelson Mandela month library book clear in his message when he said to all of us that drive. Employees from FirstRand, First National ‘The future is in your hands’,” Van Rhyn said in an Bank, Rand Merchant Bank and WesBank host interview with Private Life. 9 Credit: Matthew Willman / Nelson Mandela Foundation Matthew Credit: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” - Nelson Mandela One of the major challenges facing South opportunity for a radical partnership between Africa is the fact that the majority of Grade 3s government and business and an opportunity can’t read at grade level and Grade 8s can’t do for every business leader in South Africa to get basic arithmetic, says Van Rhyn. “In the World involved with one local school – to help lead Economic Forum’s 2013 Global Competitiveness change at that school,” she says. Report South Africa is rated number 141 out of a 144 countries for the quality of our basic Undeniably, the biggest challenge confounding education.