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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno State announced the unveiling of a caller monument connected Thursday, successful their Peace Garden, the monument volition observe the humanitarian contributions of South Africa's archetypal democratically elected President, Nelson Mandela.
Special impermanent Dr. Siyabulela Mandela, great-grandson of Nelson Mandela, interrupted his humanitarian enactment successful Iraq to talk to Fresno State students arsenic good arsenic YourCentralValley.com the time earlier the statue unveiling.
Siyabulela says helium was blessed to talk to students and humbled by the accidental to talk astatine the unveiling and induct his great-grandfather's statue into the Peace Garden among the likes of Martin Luther King Jr., Gandhi, and Cesar Chavez.
"The mode I present myself usually successful my lawsuit would beryllium I basal successful the shoulders of my ancestors," Siyabulela said. "Now, I americium lasting successful the shoulders of greatness."
Siyabulela says those who already person statues of them astatine the bid plot are shining examples of the enactment helium hopes to do, including his great-grandfather.
"These are the radical that I look up to. I look up to the likes of Martin Luther King, sir Chavez, you know, Mahatma Gandhi, of course, to Nelson Mandela," Siyabulela said.
According to Siyabulela, the anticipation for the statue's unveil is not dissimilar a spiritual acquisition and helium is definite that the time volition bring inspiration for his ain work.
"My enactment astatine the infinitesimal successful Iraq is based connected post-conflict reconstruction and development, reconciliation," Siyabulela said. "I don't cognize if you've been successful religion and you consciousness the spirit. That's the benignant of tone that I cognize I'll beryllium embraced in."
The monument volition beryllium unveiled astatine Fresno State's Peace Garden connected Thursday, astatine 5 p.m. and Siyabulela hopes to talk much connected the value of the benignant of enactment and sacrifice indispensable for long-lasting peace.
