Mandela had long been my personal hero, from my student days in the 1960’s, when – like so many others of my generation – I was an anti-apartheid activist. We knew that the risks we ran of being roughed up or arrested while demonstrating against visiting Springbok rugby teams were entirely trivial compared to the risks that he and his colleagues had been prepared to face.
和许多同龄人一样，从20世纪60年代我的学生时代起，曼德拉就一直是积极反对种族隔离制度的我心目中的英雄。我们知道比起他和他的同事承担的风险，我们在向来访的跳羚橄榄球队示威时所冒的被打和被捕的风险其实微不足道。