Nelson Mandela’s release into the world and into Winnie’s waiting arms (only one of which it subsequently transpired he had looked forward to) had the whole world agog with wonder back in 1990. A new era of peace and stability flourished in South Africa and everything there changed for the better. From that day forward the black ruling classes kept the rest of the population down, rather than the white ruling classes as it was in the bad old days. The world celebrated with the newly liberated Mandela by allowing his country to host pretty much every world-sporting event in the next few years. Never mind that other countries had waited longer or were more deserving. All that was forgotten in the rush to give South Africa more and more events at which their status as top of the world murder league could be further enhanced by whacking a few sports-tourists unlucky enough to have wandered 5 yards from their Hotels.
This Patgod cover managed to be only the 21,954th publication to feature Nelson on their cover following his release – still the fastest reaction time a football fanzine had managed at that date.
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