We have perhaps the most famous man in the world living in our country, and every time Nelson Mandela falls ill, the world press descend on whichever hospital he is allegedly at. I say “allegedly at” because it quite often turns out that he is not at the hospital at which they have all camped outside.

It seems so unfortunate to now hear that his family are all fighting about money and his heritage and all of us is damaged by this. We read that there is allegedly bad blood between advocate George Bizos and attorney Ismail Ayob going back to the Mandela “art works” fights in 2005. One of Mandela’s daughters is even holding a series of 95th birthday parties for him in July, all of course of a commercial nature involving boxing tournaments, football games games involving Manchester City, etc, and of course all of this involves a healthy profit. As one of his grandsons was quoted in the Sunday Times, “It is quite shocking that, while someone is still alive, there is a fight over his inheritance … He is being stripped of his clothes and they are being sold off.”