She was badly wounded by a machete and left for deadShe awoke in a pool of her own blood to find her husband and six children lying dead beside herShe told Hillary and me that she had cried out to God in despair that she had survived, then came to understand that my life must have been spared for a reason, and it could not be something as mean as vengeanceSo I do what I can to help us start againI was overwhelmed; that magnificent woman had made my problems seem pathetically smallShe had deepened my resolve to do whatever I could to help Rwanda I began the first visit by any American President to South Africa in Cape Town, with a speech to the parliament in which I said I had come in part to help the American people see the new Africa with new eyesIt was fascinating to me to witness the supporters and victims of apartheid working togetherThey didnt deny the past or hide their current disagreements, but they seemed confident that they could build a common futureIt was a tribute to the spirit of reconciliation that emanated from Mandela The next day Mandela took us to visit Robben Island, where he had spent the first eighteen years of his captivityI saw the rock quarry where he had worked and the balenciaga blue cramped cell where he was kept when he wasnt breaking rocksIn Johannesburg, I called on Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, who had been meeting with Al Gore twice a year on our common agenda and was almost certain to be Mandelas successor; dedicated a commercial center named after Ron Brown, who had loved South Africa; and visited a primary schoolHillary and I went to church with Jesse Jackson in Soweto, the teeming township that had produced so many of the anti-apartheid activists By this time I had developed a real friendship with MandelaHe was remarkable not only because of his astonishing journey from hatred to reconciliation during twenty-seven years in prison, but also because he was both a tough-minded politician and a caring person who, despite his long confinement, never lost his interest in the personal side of life or his ability to show love, friendship, and kindness We had one especially meaningful conversationI said, Madiba [Mandelas colloquial tribal name, which he asked me to use], I know you did a great thing in inviting your jailers to your inauguration, but didnt you really hate those who imprisoned you? He replied, Of course I did, for many yearsThey took the best years of my d