"Amandla...

...ngewethu!" " Implement the Freedom Charter! Now!"
All the old chants come back to me tonight. Walter and me on the non-stop picket of the Embassy ("Until such time as Mandela is free!"). Meetings, meetings. At one of them I met Denis Goldberg (who sold me this 75th anniversary badge).
Farewell Nelson Mandela. Madiba. Locked away, but never imprisoned.




I also remember handing out leaflets outside the SA Embassy on Trafalgar Square (sometime in the early 80s) when a posh suit strode past. He had a mop of stupid blond hair, was quite podgy and snarled "Hang Mandela, terrorist!" Could it have been the current jolly, bumbling esteemed mayor of London? I bet it fucking was.