Kusuke umsindo amaphoyisa enqabela uMandla Mandela ukufinyelela esichumeni sikaMkhulu wakhe

Kube nokushubile e-Union Buildings ngoLwesibili lapho uMandla Mandela, ongumzukulu kalowo owaba ngumengameli wokuqala wentando yeningi uNelson Mandela, enqatshelwe ukungena emfanekisweni walowo owayengumengameli wezwe ngoba efuna ukuyomhlonipha ngesikhathi eqeda iminyaka eyishumi ashona. UMandla Mandela ubesePitoli ebambe iqhaza kumashi esekela iPalestine eya e-Union Buildings. Phakathi nale mashi enokuthula, unqume ukuchezuka ayohlonipha umkhulu wakhe emfanekisweni, kodwa amaphoyisa aqale amnqabela ukungena. Bagcine bevumile.

UMandela washona ngoDisemba 5, 2013, eneminyaka engu-95 ubudala. UMandla Mandela uhambele i-Global Convention of Solidarity with Palestine yezinsuku ezintathu ebibanjelwe eGoli. Umhlangano wawunesihloko esithi: Nelson Mandela and Palestine: Confronting Racism till Liberation. Ithimba leHamas belimelwe emhlanganweni ukudingida udaba lwePalestine ne-Israel.

UMandla Mandela ujoyinwe yizithunywa ezivela emazweni ahlukene ukuzokhuluma ngezindaba zasePalestine. Iqembu lenze umbhikisho wokukhumbula ukushona kukaMandela futhi lihambise nememorandamu kuhulumeni. Ekhuluma nesixuku, uMandela wacela ukwesekwa kwePalestine ngokumelene nokuhlala kwama-Israel eGaza kanye nomhlaba wonke wamaPalestina.

“Ezinsukwini ezimbili ezedlule, ngilalele izikhalo zabo eGaza nakulo lonke elasePalestine. Ngakho-ke, sithe namuhla, sesilalele abafowethu nodadewethu, sabelana nathi ngokwethu njengabantu baseNingizimu Afrika emzabalazweni wethu wenkululeko,” kusho uMandela.