Prime Minister Howard, the man who can fall to any occasion, has praised former South African President Nelson Mandela.
Speaking in Durban, Howard said:
Mandela, I think I have said before, is one of the most impressive people I have met in life and I think it’s a remarkable tribute to mankind’s capacity to forgive that a person who could have lost 27 years of his life in detention without, in the eyes of some, a proper process and the sort of appalling conditions in which he was imprisoned can complete the transition that he completed is an extraordinary thing. I think it’s also fair to say that De Klerk did make a contribution.
Note the qualification contained in the phrase in the eyes of some.
