Some of us are still trying to recover from being let down badly by those we considered as our heroes. In the recent past, those we had put on a pedestal turned out to have huge feet of clay.
Not so with our struggle hero - Robert McBride. His conviction on charges of driving while drunk and obstructing the course of justice were this week overturned by the Pretoria High Court after he appealed. These charges stem from a car accident in which McBride was involved while driving a state vehicle in 2006. The state had alleged that he crashed the car because he was under the influence of alcohol. At the time he was the head of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police. The Pretoria High Court ruled that "the state has not proved its case beyond reasonable doubt"(The Times, 28/03/2013).
We admire McBride because he did not just talk about bringing about a change in the old South Africa from safe sidelines, but he actually risked his life by joining the armed struggle as a cadre of Umkhonto we Sizwe - the ANC's armed wing then. Those close to him also attest that he showed this same bravery in many other instances during the turbulent period just before our first democratic elections.
It would have been a real pity if he had ended up in prison. McBride, and many others in the MK, for some of us, stands for what a real hero is. And that is someone who is willing to give it all up - even at the risk of his own life - in order to dedicate himself to fighting for a just cause.
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