Verdict: critical carrot
By six days, Nelson Mandela outlived a white South African politician called Colin Eglin. While the future president was made to hew limestone on Robben Island, the quantity surveyor won a seat in the apartheid parliament in 1974 for the prosperous constituency of Sea Point, which looks out on that smudge of rock amid the shimmer of Table Bay.
As a Capetonian schoolboy I licked envelopes for Eglin in the election that put the Progressive party leader among a handful able to join the doughty Helen Suzman on the opposition benches. He was to stay there for 30 years, latterly under the Democratic Alliance banner.
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- Knowing Mandela by John Carlin
EAN: 9781782394327
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