Word: kathrada
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...Married to Ahmed Kathrada, who was sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela and served 18 years
...Mandela's model of leadership is so profound and historic that I decided to focus on explaining what the world can learn from it. I went back to South Africa last month to talk to two of the men who know Mandela best: Cyril Ramaphosa and Ahmed Kathrada. Ramaphosa is one of the great leaders of modern South Africa (and a favorite of Mandela's) and was the powerful head of the National Union of Mineworkers when Mandela was released. Kathrada is both a lifelong freedom fighter and friend of Mandela's who spent those long and lonely years...
...leave your base behind Mandela is cagey. in 1985 he was operated on for an enlarged prostate. When he was returned to prison, he was separated from his colleagues and friends for the first time in 21 years. They protested. But as his longtime friend Ahmed Kathrada recalls, he said to them, "Wait a minute, chaps. Some good may come of this...
...Mandela launched a campaign to persuade the ANC that his was the correct course. His reputation was on the line. He went to each of his comrades in prison, Kathrada remembers, and explained what he was doing. Slowly and deliberately, he brought them along. "You take your support base along with you," says Ramaphosa, who was secretary-general of the ANC and is now a business mogul. "Once you arrive at the beachhead, then you allow the people to move on. He's not a bubble-gum leader - chew it now and throw it away...
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