Special Reports
FEATURE: Remembering Nelson Mandela─── OWEN KOCK 12:30 Fri, 17 Jul 2015
South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela, who passed away at the age of 95, would have celebrated his 97th birthday tomorrow.
He is being hailed as the man who kept South Africa from ripping itself apart by advocating reconciliation instead of revenge. But often overlooked is what Mandela did specifically to turn his fractured country of 11 homelands, struggling under economically crippling sanctions backed by the U.S., the U.K. and 23 other countries, into Africa’s largest economy.
What many South Africans and citizens of the world does not know, us Nelson Mandela saved the economy of the country, paving the way for an almost, and despite all his efforts, an economically free society.
OFM News' Senior Journalist Owen Kock highlighted four of the most important steps Mandela took to help in bringing about economic change in a troubled South Africa.
