No News? Well maybe...

Finding something to talk about today was hard. Trying to find something that wasn't related to spying and therefore likely to put me on some list by talking about it made me become slightly interested with a story about a fellow who got a traffic cone stuck on his head, but you require a cleverer man that me to make up a joke about that...

By the way that is my excuse for the quality of this following blurb being horrible/the same as always. (oh good old self-deprecation, my go to move.)

Anywho, let me set the scene (...or find a story.) Nah, actually screw it...I've been looking to damn long. I think I will take this hallowed opportunity you have allowed me to talk a little about Mr. Nelson Mandela. (Still topical, No?)

From all accounts he's one hell of a guy.

Well thanks, for reading.

I know, that wasn't even funny, alright lets get down to business.

As if I really need to do this, but in case you don't know about the great man for some reason, Let me educate you a little.

Nelson Mandela is recognised as the father of true democracy in South Africa, and its first Black President following the fall of the apartheid regime in 1994. Apartheid was a system of racial segregation that had been enforced in the country since 1948 which maintained the dominance of the white minority in the country over the indigenous majority. Without wanting to get too righteous about the injustice of this, I hope we can all agree it was pretty wrong. (By the way if you don't think it's wrong, would you kindly just scroll to the top-right hand side of the screen and click the "x", thanks.)

Anyways, Mandela agreed with the with the rest of us, and he did something about it. His campaigns and action against these injustices saw him imprisoned in 1962 for 27 years, till his long walk away from Robben Island prison in 1990. Let me just repeat, 27 years in incarceration for what he believed to be right.

Mandela became President of South Africa in 1994, until 1999. When he retired as "the father of a nation" & all round general badass. Mandela is revered all over the world for his personal sacrifice for his fellow man's profit and this alone makes him one of the most influential figures in World history.

If you think I'm skipping out a few details, then 1. You'd be right and 2. I'd kindly ask you get of my back and go read a book for yourself you lazy...friend.If you're even more uninformed than I thought and you are wondering why I'd bring this up at all then I would first implore you to start watching the news, (It will make you a more interesting person to talk to, I promise.) and secondly add that it sadly looks like Mr. Mandela's life is coming to an end due to lung complications which originate from tuberculosis that he contracted while in prison. The South African nation wait with baited breath (an unintentional pun I assure you) for news, but at the moment reports have been less than positive.

I struggled to think how to end this scrappy piece, so I thought a quote from the man himself might suffice...but then I couldn't choose just one, you're welcome.

"To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."

"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."

...or in Mandela's case a Hero.

Until Then.