Francesca's Thoughts

I’ve spent the last half-hour reading up on Nelson Mandela, and for a bloke who liked Colnol Gadaffi, he’s done some pretty spectacular stuff. I urge you all to take a moment to appreciate apartheid, long term imprisonment, and seventeen grandchildren.

Seventeen.

Seriously, though, it’s important to learn about these old dudes who did something famous before I/we/you were born/politically aware, because it’s so easy to forget the significance of what these people did… I honestly don’t know much about South Africa apart from “apartheid used to be there” and those bloody World Cup trumpet things, but I get the distinct impression that a South Africa without Mandela and his freedom fighter friends would be far worse off, as in fact would the rest of the world, because we need people who symbolise the need for equality…

I’m going to stop now because I’m getting sleepy and a repeat of yesterday’s wrong-account-Tweeting would be slightly embarrassing. Fool me once and all that…