He is everywhere.
On a mural on a dusty wall outside a Soweto church, and on the stained-glass window inside.
A disproportionate enormous bronze likeness stands sentry over a posh Johannesburg shopping mall. His face gazes over the windblown fields of KwaZulu Natal where he was arrested, assembled out of laser-cut metal strips by a local artist. He is on road signs, on bridges, in school books. He is on T-shirts, clocks, coasters – and firmly in South Africa’s collective consciousness.
- www.independent.co.uk {The man and brand that is Nelson Mandela}
Jeremy Sampson, chief executive of Interbrand Sampson in Johannesburg, told Reuters. “Public relations experts quote a US survey placing Mandela second only to the mother of all brands, Coca-Cola.
- www.starvingcreatives.wordpress.com {The execution of Brand Mandela}
