“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela
After five surreal decades
of suffering, death and injustice
South Africans knew Apartheid must go!
With a stroke of his pen, F. W. De Klerk
banished all racial statutes
And ordered the present release
of South Africa's most-known prisoner.
Then on a sunlit September day
in 1990, 27 long years after closing,
the gates of Victor Verser prison re-opened
and Nelson Mandela walked out a free man.
A brief trip to Stockholm soon followed
with De Klerk alongside to collect their prize.
After South Africa's first free election,
Mandela recited his nation's oath
and claimed his place in the president's chair.
Thanks to a visionary people on the mend,
yesterday's impossible is today's noble truth
May 23
May 23, 2026 at 7:37 PM UTC
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” Nelson Mandela
After five surreal decades
of suffering, death and injustice
South Africans knew Apartheid must go!
With a stroke of his pen, F. W. De Klerk
banished all racial statutes
And ordered the present release
of South Africa's most-known prisoner.
Then on a sunlit September day
in 1990, 27 long years after closing,
the gates of Victor Verser prison re-opened
and Nelson Mandela walked out a free man.
A brief trip to Stockholm soon followed
with De Klerk alongside to collect their prize.
After South Africa's first free election,
Mandela recited his nation's oath
and claimed his place in the president's chair.
Thanks to a visionary people on the mend,
yesterday's impossible is today's noble truth
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