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Authority without restraint is tyranny. Authority without legitimacy is fragile. Authority, tempered by conscience, can exert a unique impact on human civilisation. Nelson Mandela was one of those powerful impacts. Mandela did not assume authority; he became it. Long before he took the oath of office, his moral stature had already outgrown the structures that confined him. On Robben Island, where he spent years in a sparse cell, something paradoxical occurred: the pris...
