Euphorias and downers HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 06/14/2010

Euphorias and downers

HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 06/14/2010 I’m at a loss on what to write. Personally, I would want to tackle freedom icon Nelson Mandela’s loss of his great-grand daughter to a car crash as she was on her way home from a World Cup event in South Africa, the nation Mandela helped and led to be free. Mandela was supposed to grace the opening rites of the World Cup, which set foot on Johannesburg for the first time since its majority black people beat apartheid after Mandela’s freedom from 27 years of prison life in 1990. The World Cup, the greatest sporting spectacle that could rival the Olympics, was only about to start on Sunday when the latest tragedy in Mandela’s life occurred. But the euphoria building up for the World Cup was tinged by this personal disaster in Mandela’s life. During his early years in prison on charges of sabotage, Mandela’s first-born son also died in a car crash. He had two marriages which failed. And only recently, another of his sons died due to AIDS-related complications. The latest tragedy in his life was too much to bear for the iconic leader, he would pass up on the opportunity to be seen celebrating the sport that helped glue his country when it was in the verge of a civil war. He will miss the World Cup.... MORE   Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100614com6.html

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