South Africa: Meeting Tata - One Last Time

12 December 2013
opinion

In all my years as a news reporter, I have come across several heads of state and other high-profile dignitaries.

I had the privilege of covering former President Nelson Mandela casting his vote at the Killarney Country Club in Houghton, Johannesburg in 2009. Then, he was 90-years-old and needed assistance to the voting booth by then Gauteng Premier Paul Mashatile and his then personal assistant Zelda la Grange.

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