From: "Dr. Leo Rebello" To: Subject: TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA by Dr. Leo Rebello Date: December-06-13 2:01 AM Dr. Leo Rebello's warm tribute to Nelson Mandela Fifty rods of steel, symbolising prison bars, so people will never forget the years Mandela was imprisoned … The remarkable thing about this artwork is that it is only when you stand at a certain distance (which is marked) that you see his image.... NELSON MANDELA RIP by Dr. Leo Rebello Madiba Nelson Mandela, Africa's tallest 'black man' with pure 'white heart' passed away this morning in Johannesburg. I first met Mandela in 2000 during the International AIDS Conference in Durban. Later I met him in Barcelona in 2002. Because, of his weak eye sight, I could not use my flash camera to take photos with him presenting him my AIDS & NATURAL MEDICINE book. He had complimented me for my book and my sentence "FROM AID$ $CARE TO AIDS CARE" saying this is what is required. Several world media men had clicked my photograph with him. I hope someone sends a copy to me for my record. In 2000, after the Durban AIDS conference, I had traveled through South Africa extensively, right upto Robben Island. One has to take an hour long Ferry from Cape Town to reach this tranquil island which is known as seal paradise. From the 17th to 20th Century this serene island served as a place of banishment, isolation and imprisonment. The same maniacal White Race which had unleashed gruesome tortures in Cellular Jails in Andamans on Indian freedom fighters, also unleashed untold hardships in Robben Island on Nelson Mandela for 27 years. And yet he forgave them. Forgiveness is the quality of saints. Robben Island is now a World Heritage site. My suggestion is that an International monument, with Nelson Mandela World University, International AIDS Hospital promoting Traditional and Natural Medicine be built based on my book to bring Africa out of Medical Hegemony or Medical Apartheid.