It may be nearly ten months since he passed away but the legacy of Nelson Mandela lives on as it created the opportunity for South Africa to achieve a common future.

Meeting the late Nelson Mandela in 1990 changed the life of Melanie Verwoerd’s life dramatically, having been elected as the youngest member of the South African Parliament for the ANC party in 1994

One of the results of this meeting with Mandela is her latest project published over the summer entitled “Our Madiba”- an anthology of recollections of the great man by ordinary people from all walks of life, who, like her, had been touched by meeting him.

The former South African Ambassador to Ireland spoke to Wendy from Cape Town about her latest book project.