Bumming it - Madiba style!!!

The view from the Nelson Mandela museum at Qunu in the Transkei is breathtaking. From the hill, where it’s situated, you have a panoramic view of the rolling hills of the Transkei.

If you stand at a particular angle, you can also see the Mandela house, where the elder statesman is currently enjoying time.

There’s off course lots of history here in this place where Mandela grew up. The people from the museum – infact everyone in Qunu - can tell you something about Mandela.



A nice thing that they’re doing at the museum is that visitors can follow the footstep of Mandela – visiting sites that he used frequent as a young man.

A Day before our broadcast from there last week, we were taken to the stone slide where he and his tjommies played.

We were literally walking in his footsteps. The slide though is a slippery stone, bumpy and very steep.

The seven of us all stared at the slide – two taking photo’s. And then, I threw caution at the wind. I sat on my bum – and wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee….

I went down on my bum… all the way to the end of the rock. I was exhilarating… I can imagine why Mandela and his mates walked up that steep hills and rocks to come here over and over again.

Then, my colleague asked me to do it again (to take a few photo’s), and I obliged – my bum sliding where Madiba’s once was. Now how many people can say that!