South African Consulate: Nobekezelo Tello

Nobekezelo Tello: Teddy and Nobekezelo Tello, who fled South Africa together and were married in a Botswana refugee camp, stood with their children at a ceremony for Nelson Mandelas 95th birthday held in the Regent Park school named after him, according to The Star. Teddy remembers the first time he could vote in his native country. In 1994, their family now living in Toronto, he went to the South African consulate to have his say. He voted for Mandela and his African National Congress, like millions of others, putting in power the man who would try to unite the nation and The Tellos pray for him every day. His legacy is to see everybody together everybody living together as one, said Nobekezelo Tello, standing beside her 10-year-old daughter Nandi, in matching South Africa t-shirts. The ceremony was a bittersweet celebration for the great statesman, whose life has hung in the balance for weeks as he battled a lung infection. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.