The great man entered his 21st year of captivity while current Treasury Board President Tony Clement was running around arranging speaking engagements for apartheid South Africa’s ambassador to Canada. The great man was two years retired from the Presidency of post-apartheid South Africa when Conservative MP Rob Anders vilified him in the House of Commons and managed to put off his honorary Canadian citizenship for a few months.

One life, bravely, joyfully, fully lived. Two others.