I cannot reach the other side. I cannot bend the horizon, limits of my times. But you, all of you, will travel much further. I cannot even fathom the heights that you will reach.Dad, you have done exceptionally well, we are well fed and well clothed, we have successful businesses, we have a home, a name, and we don’t want for anything. The South Africa we live in today, he might have responded, the work that me and a few have managed to do, could never possibly justify our abilities, our dreams.
I imagine Richard, in his regular visit to Madiba in prison, with each year both getting older and frailer: Was the work I am doing a betrayal to my people, had I chosen an easier road, was I sacrificing enough, like Mandela, Sisulu, Kathrada. Richard was refusing to accept a life chosen by someone else for him, refusing to live in the manner prescribed for him.
When Richard took a job as a stock taker at a store, teacher as he was, he must have seem like a heretic from those close to him, who must have ached at his decision to abandon the respectability of a profession into a world of the unknown, a world usually reserved for those who have not found their own way life.
Richard always had an option to do nothing, but he knew in his heart that the cost of doing nothing isn’t nothing.
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