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Mandela’s Will Leaves $4 Million to Family, Staff, Schools, ANC
“Well it is ironic,” noted Habib, “I have been on record as saying that Wits apologizes for that. His experience at Wits was both positive and negative. It was positive, if you look at his biography, he says that it opened him up to ideas, but it was also negative in the sense that he was treated badly.”
Habib also went on to point out, “And I do not think we should hide that… I think we should recognize that and we should learn the lessons from that. … The will is quite clear that is for scholarships and for bursaries. And that is exactly what we will dedicate it to. We will dedicate it to addressing or contributing to addressing the challenge of inequality.”
George Bizos, Mandela’s best friend and lawyer who also served as an executor, said the document is a reflection of an extraordinary man. “He gave reasons why he wanted to give to educational institutions, because he wanted people, disadvantaged throughout their lives, to really be treated in a way as human beings,” he told reporters as he wiped tears from his face. “This was his credo, this is what he hoped for all of us.”
Source: Voice of America
