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.
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