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Mandela ‘was a mama’s boy’

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NELSON Mandela was a mama’s boy.

It’s not what you’d expect to hear about the global human rights icon when you chat to his daughter, Dr Phumla Makaziwe Mandela, who has just launched a coffee table book in honour of her dad.

“Yes, Tata loved his mom, he was really a mama’s boy, he adored his mother,” she laughs while talking about her book, Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life.

While many books have been written about the elder statesman, this one is different; written from an insider’s perspective, it gives an intimate glimpse into the life of a man who was granted little private time to be with his family. Timeous

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