Chronicles of Fly

Sporting  a Bok Jersey Micheal Kapten's painting of Madiba Now that the dust has settled, let me ask. Where were you on Thursday the 5 th of December when Nelson Mandela died? How did you feel? I felt rather crappy because it marked 12 months since the day I lost my younger brother, but that’s a story for another time. I don’t think anyone was really shocked when Nelson Mandela went to rest, we saw it coming. But still it did not cushion the blow, for once in my life a great man of Africa passed on and I really felt it. My Cousin Alex and I took turns in taking in just what it meant, we spent two days watching Mandela documentaries. Not because we did not know about who he was and what he stood for. But because it was our way of letting go, our way of coming to terms. “A great tree has fallen” as the African saying goes. In the aftermath of the great speech that Barack Obama gave and the booing of Jacob Zuma; questions arose. Although if truth is to be told, those que...