Opinion / Columnist
The media should now back-off ailing Mandela
09 Jun 2013 at 12:41hrs | Views
While I appreciate the media's interest in the health of former President Nelson Mandela, I think we have now reached a stage where the media especially the Western media should back-off from the ailing international icon and respect his privacy and dignity. I am writing this message from London where Prince Phillip is not receiving the same intrusive media attention.
3 November 1980
M-Drive in Zimbabwe: The Free-Mandela at the University of Zimbabwe has collected 600 signatures petitioning for his release.
Clifford Mashiri the organiser.
An excerpt from Nelson Mandela: Conversations with Myself, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2010) p.277.
Source - Clifford Mashiri
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