Mandela is devastated by the news that his honey has been murdered. He makes several calls and goes to see Tris highness parents who are in not too far from where he was in the trans guy. Mandela also reaches out to F.W. Diclark, leader of the Trans Guy's Party for help. The two men make a pivotal phone call during which they agree on one thing: Mandela will go on television later that day as president.
On Easter weekend 1993 Nelson Mandela was engaged in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President F.W. de Klerk when a white supremacist shot Mandela’s heir-apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. On this episode of the podcast, acclaimed South African journalist Justice Malala recounts the riveting story of the pivotal nine days that followed Hani’s murder and the extraordinary effort of leadership that was needed to avert a crisis that could have developed into a full-scale war. Our host for this conversation is Alec Russell, Foreign Editor of the Financial Times.
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