“The activities which will be undertaken by the bikers provide a good sample of what people can possibly do in their own communities in order to better the lives of others. We hope people along the route and those following the ride will take inspiration from this example and live the Mandela Day ethos before and beyond the 18th and thereby help Make Every Day a Mandela Day.” Quote: ‘Nelson Mandela in The Long Walk To Freedom’: “At Cedara, a small town just past Howick, I noticed a Ford V-8 filled with white men shoot past us on the right. I instinctively turned round to look behind and I saw two more cars filled with white men. Suddenly, in front of us, the Ford was signaling for us to stop. I knew in that instant that my life on the run was over; my seventeen months of ‘freedom’ were about to end.” It was from that moment that Mr Mandela was incarcerated, eventually spending over 27 years imprisoned by the apartheid regime, many of those as prisoner number 466 / 64 on Robben Island. (www.mandeladay.com)
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