Mandela’s family is grateful for support
The family of Nelson Mandela has extended their sincerest gratitude to the religious community for the thoughts and prayers extended to the family in their time of grief.
A statement from the family reads as follows:
Indeed our burden of pain and sorrow is daily being lessened by the outpouring of national and international grief for our father and elder. We have always been mindful that we share Tata with the rest of South Africa, Africa and the world.
Both our mothers, Graca Machel and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela express their conviction that Nelson Mandela, like a flower, will continue to blossom forever in all your hearts.”
Though he answered to the name father, husband, granddad, son and a Statesman, we all understood that ultimately, Tata remains an inspiration not only to us but the rest of humanity.
We who were privileged and honoured to share part of his being, a profound mix of sadness, pride and gratitude are the strongest emotion we share as a family.”
The family expressed how blessed they are to be associated with the great icon, and how having a role in perpetuating his legacy which he gifted humanity, is the most precious birth-right which he has bestowed upon them all.
Let us pledge to keep Mandela’s dream alive, in the way in which we honour the humanity in each other; in the way in which we solve our most difficult problems; and in the way in which we raise up the poor, the downtrodden; and the marginalised.
We encourage the country to be true to the values and ideas which Mandela stood for and for which he was prepared to pay the supreme price for.
As a family we have no option except to be bound by these values. Let the word go here from, hence, that we dare not fail. And we know and know too well that you the people of the world will not fail Madiba.
