Special Report Transcript Episode 53, Section 4, Time 18:26

‘Meeting Madiba…’ // When they came in I quickly went up the stairs to wait for them and I must tell you that when an important man like this comes in my tradition you have to sing his clan praises and I didn’t know Madiba’s clan names except ‘Madiba.’ And I had to phone my mother in Johannesburg, in Soweto for her to tell me what were the other clan names and she gave me a whole list and I just said no four is enough. So, when Madiba came through the door with Bishop Tutu and his entourage, I was up the stairs and I just shouted the praise songs, ‘Madiba, Yemyem, velabam” bensele!’ And then this man looked and he went up the stairs and I came down and he just hugged me. My heart was pounding so hard.

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