I will never forget my big fat kiss with Nelson Mandela.

Here’s how it came about……

I was assisting a very poor school close to Cape Town to raise funds for a new classroom in the late 1990s. The English name for the area was Mandela Park, so we called his office and asked if he’d come and help us. If you don’t ask you don’t get right? He came!  We all got a hug from Madiba and with his arms around me I whispered in his ear “give me a kiss“.  He finished the hug, held my shoulders, looked straight at me and gave me a whopping great kiss on the lips!  We then both grinned – my smile doesn’t get bigger than this!

The sequence of events: the hug, the cheeky request, the kiss, the grin!

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