This month marks nine years since the passing of nelson mandela, the south african freedom fighter and president and truly one of history s greatest citizens. in a time when we are facing growing threats from domestic extremists motivated by racial ideologies mandela s voice is sorely missed. fortunately for us all there s a chance to hear from the man himself in never before released audiotapes from rick stengel who in 1993 worked with mandela in the writing of the critically acclaimed memoir and best-seller the long walk to freedom.
Mandela, the south african freedom fighter president and truly one of history s greatest citizens. in the time when we are facing growing threats from domestic extremists, motivated by racial and violent ideologies, mandela s voice is sorely missed. not only did mandela unite south africa and its post apartheid era, but nearly the entire world agreed on the moral repugnance of racism. fortunately for us all, there is a chance to hear from the man himself. in a never before released audiotape from rick who back in 1993, worked alongside mandela in the writing of the critically acclaimed memoir and bestseller, long walk to freedom. and a new ten-part podcast called mandela, the lost tapes, he features hours of recordings of himself and the beloved nobel prize winner. you have to recognize that people are produced by the mud in this asylee in which you live. and that therefore they are
There we go. michael, maria, and michael, the michaels, we put them at the end, the ladies i m an m, too. thank you all very much. really appreciate it. up next on the reidout you might think you know nelson mandela. the late south african freedom fighter. a new podcast is revealing what mandela was really like in his own words. the reidout continues after this
This month marks nine years since the passing of nelson mandela, the south african freedom fighter, president and truly one of history s greatest citizens in a time when we are facing growing threats from domestic extremists motivated by racial and violent ideologies, mandela s voice is sorely missed not only did he unite south africa in the post-apartheid era, but got the world to tree on the moral repug nens of racism fortunately for us all, there is a chance to hear from the man himself in never before released awed tapes from rick stengel who worked alongside mandela in the writing of the memoir and bestseller long walk to freedom. in a ten-part podcast, stengel features hours of rare recordings of himself and the beloved nobel peace prize winner you have to recognize that
Can say i m on a journey, i have a charge to keep. you were living in cairo with your husband, south african freedom fighter when you first met nelson mandela. i understand your husband and mandela were something of rivals, but that didn t matter to mandela. tell us about that experience. they were rivals. but when nelson mandela came to visit, he never joined the argumentative people. he was simply kind to everybody. when you heard that he was gone, what first went through your mind? well, i felt lost in a way. we ve been friends so long, from the early 60s, and i felt lost. i didn t know quite what to say. i mean, it was a piece of news that we ve known would come, but