Mandela leaves legacy of tolerance amid great inequality Nelson Mandela's legacy of tolerance formed the basis of South Africa's democracy, but profound inequalities inherited from decades of racial segregation linger. Mandela famously sipped tea with the widow of Hendrik Verwoerd and donned a South African rugby jersey to present the 1995 World Cup trophy at a time when most black people scoffed at the sport as a white man's pastime. That was ...
Dec. 6, 2013 - AFP via Yahoo! News
Hugh Masekela in Student Pulse That song sounds like a fun song,said musician Hugh Masekela, "but it's really like 'Watch out Verwoerd, here comes the black man, your days are over" (Hirsch 2002).