https://www.bbc.com/swahili/habari-49096335

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VERY USEFUL SESSION.

INTERESTING TALE OF NELSON MANDELA’s BOOTS THAT HE HAD LEFT IN TANZANIA

When President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete delivered what is now regarded as one of the best eulogy speech from him, he revealed one fact that was not known to many [myself included]. It was the tale of Nelson Mandela’s boots that he left in Tanzania in 1962 when he was hosted by a family of late Nsilo Swai in the then independent Tanganyika[ now Tanzania after 1964 union with Zanzibar] under Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Kind enough, President Kikwete had brought along Mrs Swai to the final burial ceremony of Madiba at Qunu, Eastern Cape on Sunday 15th December.

Interesting enough, the boots were kept just to be returned to him 33 years [in 1995]later after he was freed from his 27 years behind bars and became the first democratically elected President of South Africa.

Tanzania itajengwa na mimi na wewe.