MILWAUKEE (AP) – U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore says the world has lost a visionary leader and a hero for human rights with the death of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela. The Democratic congresswoman and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus met with Mandela in 2005 in Washington. She says it was “a powerful […]
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Tracey Joubert, the South African chief financial officer of MillerCoors, will never forget the moment when President Nelson Mandela walked onto the Johannesburg pitch at the final game of the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Dressed in the jersey of the Springboks, South Africa’s traditionally all-white rugby team — in the year after the fall of apartheid — the former political prisoner inspired a fractured nation, black and white, to seek a new, united future.
“A lot of people realized then that we can live together and we can win together,” said Joubert, who mourned Thursday the passing of the man she called the “father of a new South Africa.”
“He was just an amazing human being,” Joubert said. “I’m absolutely devastated.”
Mandela died Thursday at the age of 95 after months of ill health. He was mourned in Wisconsin and around the world by countrymen and admirers.
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