The series ends controversially as Brian Walden claims that Nelson Mandela does not deserve to be regarded as a hero.
While admiring Mandela's willingness to forgive, he feels history may condemn him for arrogance and ineptitude.
Mandela's incompetent terror campaign, he claims, actually helped to entrench the apartheid regime and that, as president, he has in a variety of ways failed his country.
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Brian Walden Questionnaire: p20