Andrew Russell

In this talk Andrew will cover three sections:

• A brief history of South Africa.
• Andrew’s own journey growing up as a white English-speaking South African; experiencing the dismantling of the oppressive system of apartheid; taking part in South Africa’s first free and fair democratic elections, and witnessing Nelson Mandela become President of South Africa.
• Nelson Mandela’s journey which began in the small rural Eastern Cape village of Mvezo and ended with him being buried back in the Eastern Cape in the village in which he spent the happiest years of his life, Qunu.