The Marc Steiner Show held a special two-hour tribute to Nelson Mandela on Monday, who passed away last week at the age of 95. The program featured guests from all over the world who discussed the life and legacy of Mandela, including some who fought with him to end Apartheid.
Honors College Director Simon Stacey was a guest during the show’s second hour, which discussed Mandela’s legacy and contemporary politics in South Africa.
“It’s difficult to imagine South Africa having weathered the transition without Mandela at the helm, especially after he was made the face of the armed struggle,” Stacey said.
“If Mandela had died on the operating table in the early 80s when he was having his prostate surgery, if the long bout with tuberculosis in the late 80s had killed him, I don’t think South Africa would have made it,” he added.
Other panelists in the discussion included Patrick Bond, professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Emira Woods, co-director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and Zane Ibrahim, who grew up in Mandela’s era and was in exile at the time of the resistance.
You can listen to the full segment on The Marc Steiner Show here.
