I first visited South Africa in 2009 and it will be forever a special place to me. It was there that I did a last-minute application for the US-Austrian Journalism Fellowship. It was there that I learned how a country came to be guided by one man’s will and million people’s wishes. It was at Robben Island where I saw that a prison cell can never contain a strong mind. My new life brought me back to South Africa just a few days ago visiting Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. The scars are still there, everywhere to be seen. But the wounds are healing and there is a special sentiment among South Africans that can be only described by this<\/p>\n
Out of the night that covers me,
\nBlack as the pit from pole to pole,
\nI thank whatever gods may be
\nFor my unconquerable soul.<\/p>\n
In the fell clutch of circumstance
\nI have not winced nor cried aloud.
\nUnder the bludgeonings of chance
\nMy head is bloody, but unbowed.<\/p>\n
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
\nLooms but the Horror of the shade,
\nAnd yet the menace of the years
\nFinds and shall find me unafraid.<\/p>\n
It matters not how strait the gate,
\nHow charged with punishments the scroll,
\nI am the master of my fate:
\nI am the captain of my soul.<\/p>\n
I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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