[dropcap]At[/dropcap] the age of 11, Ndaba Mandela met his grandfather for only the second time. A big black BMW whisked him away from his rundown Soweto neighborhood and dropped him off at Nelson Mandela’s home in the wealthy Johannesburg suburb of Houghton. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]
From this point on, he was to live with a man who was revered by so many —but who was to Ndaba, ultimately, a “stranger.”
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison. The sacrifices he made in the name of the anti-apartheid cause ultimately became the sacrifices of his family as well. His young children were deprived of a father for nearly three decades. His mother died while he was incarcerated. His grandchildren were born into a world where everyone knew their grandfather’s name, but he was just as untouchable to them as he was to everybody else.
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