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All three live in the most modest accommodation. Mlangeni still lives in the same house in Soweto in
which he was arrested. Goldberg lives in a flat in Hout Bay, near Cape Town. Kathrada lives in a flat
in a large block in Johannesburg.
On Monday they will be celebrated at a gala event at the Grosvenor House hotel where money will
be raised for Global Citizen, a charity that fights poverty and seeks to inspire young people to
change the world. On Wednesday, they will be given the freedom of the City of London.
As the student campaign Rhodes Must Fall shows, first in South Africa and now at Oxford, symbols
matter. And just as they can inflame, so they have the power to inspire. In this case these men, two
in their 80s and one in his 90s, are proof that ordinary people can change the world, and that some
victors have no interest in spoils.
Nick Stadlen is a visiting fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. He is writing a book and making a
documentary film about the Rivonia trial defendants and lawyers. He is a former high court judge.