I am indebted to Nelson "Madiba" Rolihlahla Mandela who inspired this
conversation.
There's a lot to love about Nelson Mandela, and the thing I love about
him most was expressed in an almost dismissed remark I heard him make
when some overly enthusiastic TV news interviewer went on and on and on
about how Nelson Mandela had transformed South Africa. I mean, he was
literally slathering Nelson with acknowledgment, like you would put
chocolate syrup on an icecream sundae. It was almost embarrassing.
After a while, Nelson said: "You don't get it, do you? Nothing of what
happened in South Africa was the work of any one individual. The
transformation of South Africa came out of a partnership between many,
many people.".