{UAH} As a Rwandan agent, I have a word of advice for Ugandan-Americans - Comment - www.theeastafrican.co.ke

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"The regrets begin with his role in his own family, as a father, as a husband, and as a son. Whenever he talked about his mother, he used to choke up. He told that wonderful story about how when he brought his mother to Johannesburg for the first time.

"....People were saying her son was a criminal, and the police were coming to her house. She couldn't understand it. He had great regrets about what happened to his mother. He had regrets about what happened to his first marriage, his children by his first marriage, his very frosty relations with those kids."

It was worse with his grandchildren, who seemed to have only a mercenary interest in the old man.

"Around Christmas, they remember they have a grandfather," he explained. "They run around me and tell me how much they love me… and I know what question will follow: What are you going to give us?"

As president, Mandela lived a lonely, solitary life. He had no friends. He had been separated from his family for over a quarter of a century but as president, they now found him even less accessible.