COMMISSIONER
There is no one in this country who personifies this ideal better than our State President, Nelson Mandela.  For me he is the most amazing man in the world.  Despite his 27 years of incarceration he has not a trace of bitterness towards his oppressors.  I won't be long now.  Were it not for him our streets would have been rivers of blood.  For me he is the greatest living human being on the planet.  He is unique.  In Hinduism we would regard him as "avatar."  "Avatar" is a God who descends to earth in human form.  We all of us in South Africa, black and white, should humbly bow down to this saint and try to emulate the character of this remarkable human being.  He is the very embodiment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.