ABSTRACT
[As people came back from their final break of the conference, Valerie had Vusi Mahlesela’s haunting “When you come back” playing in the auditorium. Written to inspire Mandela’s return from prison, the piece starts in enormous sadness and moves into deep celebration. It was played both as an example of music chosen by Valerie to help herself and as a link to Gillian Slovo’s moving talk on South Africa at the start of the conference.]
