Nelson Mandela ‘Let’s Talk’ by Marc Alexander, oil on canvas, 120cm by 90cm, (2013). This portrait depicts Mandela the politician. His uncompromising moral convictions and gentle yet firm sense of fairness are what set him apart. It was characteristics like these that gave him such an authority at the negotiating table. Mandela said, “If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.”