Sequel to Long Walk to Freedom - Revision 9 - Chapter 1 Page 7

*These are, in substance, off the cuff remarks I Made in the course of my presidential address to the National Assembly 7 their countries of their wealth? Did they become role models and worthy candidates for immortality? * It is now common knowledge that an unprecedented challenge faced the first democratically elected government of the Republic of South Africa. It was a major Rubicon to cross for the generation of dynamic and steeled freedom fighters who, for almost half a century, had sacrificed everything for the liberation of their fatherland. Some of them had given up lucrative careers, spent a lifetime under harsh conditions in exile, mobilizing the international community to condemn apartheid and to isolate white South Africa. That almost every country in the world in due course shunned South Africa, and apartheid condemned as a crime against humanity, was a measure of the success of their historic campaign.