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Mandela and the Church Continued from page 8 in his hand was the rudder to direct our destiny as a country anywhere. He had suffered 27 years of hard labour in separation from his family. He had all the right to be angry and to seek retribution,” the statement noted. “He chose peace, reconciliation and prosperity. He realised that his sacrifice would be in vain unless he promoted freedom, equality, participation, altruism and ubuntu.” Mr Simmermacher agreed: “It is right to celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela since he was the figurehead of the struggle against apartheid and the transition to democracy. Without his personal story, wisdom and charisma that transition might have been a lot messier than it was.” But, without wanting to detract from Mr Mandela’s enormous contribution, the Southern Cross editor said it was also important to remember that Madiba “did not single-handedly invent the Spirit of ‘94”. “Peaceful coexistence was always the goal of the liberation movement, as enshrined in the Freedom Charter. It was the goal during the struggle to end apartheid in the 1980s, even in the face of unspeakable brutality by the authorities. Mr Mandela was a co-author of that spirit and came to embody it, but the credit is due not only to him, but to many others as well. And I think he would have been the first to acknowledge that.” Jesuit theologian Fr Anthony Egan noted that Mr Mandela’s positions on the dignity of persons and human rights reflected Catholic Social Thought. Fr Egan said Mr Mandela exercised the preferential option for the poor and vulnerable. “Mandela, though he came from Xhosa nobility and was by profession a lawyer, could have stayed aloof from the poor. Yet he remained personally in touch with ordinary poor people and tried—within all the constraints of a global economy often indifferent to the poor—to help the marginalised. Though by no means poor himself, he lived simply—certainly by the standards of many of his former comrades—and concentrated his retirement on a series of projects to help poor people and children in need,” Fr Egan said. Fr Sebastian Rossouw of Regina Mundi church in Soweto, often noted as the cathedral of the struggle, said Mr Mandela’s life speaks to what this Church stands for. “He stood for the deepest desire of the human heart: peace.” Fr Rossouw noted that “many have linked the man to the struggle and the struggle to Regina Mundi—it’s the same struggle. People are happy to be a part of that association.” Fr Victor Phalana vicar-general of Pretoria thanked Mr Mandela for “saving our nation and giving us hope
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Fr (now Bishop) Reginald Cawcutt and the late Fr Basil van Rensburg share a joke with Nelson Mandela at Holy Cross parish in District Six, Cape Town, in 1990. Bishop Cawcutt, then the parish priest, recalled that one afternoon he received a phone call from an ANC official to say that Mr Mandela was about to visit the parish to view the mural on the wall of the parish school.
A copy of the letter which Nelson Mandela wrote in 1984 to the late Archbishop Stephen Naidoo of Cape Town.
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