Barack Obama. Image: Twitter/@maabane2020
The annual Nelson Mandela lecture, delivered this year by former US president Barack Obama, took place on Tuesday at the Wanderers Stadium in Illovo, Johannesburg.
Barack Obama’s lecture to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s birthday was inspirational, according to many who watched the lecture.
The lecture saw business mogul Patrice Motsepe, alongside President Cyril Ramaphosa, address scores to celebrate the great former statesman, Madiba.
On a lighter note, we have compiled moments that amused most listeners.
The first was when Obama took centre stage.
In a quirky delivery, the former US number one did not disappoint. Obama said he found it funny that some political leaders seemed to reject the concept of objective truth.
“People just make stuff up,” he said, leaving the Wanderers stadium in stitches.
“Politicians have always lied, but it used to be if you caught them lying.
“They’d be like, ah man. Now they just keep on lying.”
The second moment is a video where people attending the lecture filmed Democratic Alliance leader Mmusi Maimane and said they were at the lecture for the real Obama, not Obama-lite, referring to Maimane.
The video shows some attendants laughing at the DA leader’s expense.
The other was a Twitter reaction to a photo of UDM leader Bantu Holomisa. Holomisa was with radio personality Redi Tlhabi in the photo, posted by Tlhabi.
An amusing reaction was a tweet referring to Holomisa’s infamous fish blunder.
The reactions were in reference to Holomisa’s iconic blunder on eNCA, when he bungled the old saying, ‘give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day …’ The mistake was due to an alleged, possibly intentional, blunder by the autocue machine.