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In search of the real Mandela
寻找真正的曼德拉

A decade after the death of the former president, and amid growing disenchantment with the ANC, South Africans are questioning the one-dimensional figure of popular myth
在这位前总统去世十年后,随着人们对非国大越来越不抱幻想,南非人开始质疑这个流行神话中的一维人物。

In the South African summer of 1946, a young military veteran named Jules Browde enrolled as a law student at Wits University in Johannesburg. As he waited for his first seminar to begin, a “very tall, handsome” man walked in. “He was strapping,” Browde recalled decades later — and everyone looked up and clocked him. The most distinctive thing about the young man, though, was neither his height nor his broad shoulders: it was the colour of his skin. Nelson Mandela was the only black student in his class.

1946年的南非夏天,一位名叫朱尔斯•布劳德(Jules Browde)的年轻退伍军人在约翰内斯堡的威特斯大学(Wits University)注册成为一名法学学生。当他等待第一次研讨会开始时,一个“非常高大、英俊”的男人走了进来。布劳德几十年后回忆道,“他身材魁梧,”每个人都抬头看着他。然而,这位年轻人最与众不同的事情既不是他的身高,也不是他的宽肩膀:而是他的肤色。纳尔逊•曼德拉(Nelson Mandela)是他班上唯一的黑人学生。

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