Remembering Nelson Mandela
December 07, 2021
![Michael Jackson at President Nelson Mandela's home Genadendal in Cape Town on March 23, 1999](https://cdn-p.smehost.net/sites/28d35d54a3c64e2b851790a18a1c4c18/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Dec7_FEAT.jpg)
South African President and humanitarian Nelson Mandela passed away this week in 2013. Michael was proud to call Mandela his friend and visited him in South Africa a few times, including in 1999 when he donated 1 million rand to the Nelson Mandela Children’s fund.