Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela

Prevoditelj: Katarina Smetko Recezent: Marija Marčetić

I'm a man who's trying to live from his heart,

Ja sam čovjek koji nastoji živjeti iz srca

and so just before I get going,

i zato, prije nego počnem,

I wanted to tell you as a South African

želim vam reći, kao Južnoafrikanac,

that one of the men who has inspired me most

da je jedan od ljudi koji su me najviše nadahnuli,

passed away a few hours ago.

preminuo prije nekoliko sati.

Nelson Mandela has come to the end

Nelson Mandela došao je do kraja

of his long walk to freedom.

svojeg dugog puta do slobode.

And so this talk is going to be for him.

Ovaj će govor biti za njega.

I grew up in wonder.

Odrastao sam zadivljen.

I grew up amongst those animals.

Odrastao sam među ovim životinjama.

I grew up in the wild eastern part of South Africa

Odrastao sam u divljem istočnom dijelu Južne Afrike

at a place called Londolozi Game Reserve.

u Rezervatu za divlje životinje Londolozi.

It's a place where my family has been

Ondje moja obitelj

in the safari business for four generations.

već četiri generacije organizira safarije.

Now for as long as I can remember,

Otkad znam za sebe

my job has been to take people out into nature,

posao mi je da ljude vodim u prirodu

and so I think it's a lovely twist of fate today

i mislim da sam divnim spletom okolnosti

to have the opportunity

dobio priliku

to bring some of my experiences out in nature

predstaviti neka od svojih iskustava u prirodi

in to this gathering.

na ovom skupu.

Africa is a place

Afrika je mjesto

where people still sit under starlit skies

gdje ljudi još uvijek sjede pod zvjezdanim nebom

and around campfires and tell stories,

i oko vatre i pričaju priče

and so what I have to share with you today

pa bih danas s vama podijelio

is the simple medicine of a few campfire stories,

jednostavan lijek nekolicine takvih priča,

stories about heroes of heart.

priča o junacima u srcu.

Now my stories are not the stories

Priče poput mojih

that you'll hear on the news,

nećete čuti na vijestima.

and while it's true that Africa is a harsh place,

Iako je istina da je Afrika surovo mjesto,

I also know it to be a place

znam da je ona i mjesto

where people, animals and ecosystems

gdje nas ljudi, životinje i ekosustavi

teach us about a more interconnected world.

uče o svijetu koji je međusobno jače povezan.

When I was nine years old,

Kad sam imao devet godina,

President Mandela came to stay with my family.

predsjednik Mandela boravio je kod moje obitelji.

He had just been released from his 27 years of incarceration,

Nedavno je bio pušten nakon 27 godina u zatvoru

and was in a period of readjustment

i prilagođavao se

to his sudden global icon status.

svojem iznenadnom statusu svjetske ikone.

Members of the African National Congress

Članovi Afričkog nacionalnog kongresa

thought that in the bush

mislili su da će u divljini

he would have time to rest and recuperate

imati vremena odmoriti se i oporaviti

away from the public eye,

daleko od očiju javnosti.

and it's true that lions tend to be

Istina je da su lavovi

a very good deterrent to press and paparazzi.

vrlo dobra zaštita od novinara i paparazza.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

But it was a defining time for me as a young boy.

Ali to je znatno utjecalo na mene kao dječaka.

I would take him breakfast in bed,

Nosio bih mu doručak u krevet,

and then, in an old track suit and slippers,

a on bi zatim u staroj trenirci i papučama

he would go for a walk around the garden.

išao u šetnju vrtom.

At night, I would sit with my family

Navečer bih sa svojom obitelji

around the snowy, bunny-eared TV,

gledao lošu sliku na ekranu televizora

and watch images of that same

i gledao slike tog istog

quiet man from the garden

tihog čovjeka iz vrta

surrounded by hundreds and thousands of people

okruženog stotinama tisuća ljudi

as scenes from his release were broadcast nightly.

na snimkama njegovog puštanja iz zatvora.

He was bringing peace

Donosio je mir

to a divided and violent South Africa,

podijeljenoj i nasilnoj Južnoj Africi.

one man with an unbelievable sense of his humanity.

Jedan čovjek s nevjerojatnim osjećajem vlastite ljudskosti.

Mandela said often that the gift of prison

Mandela je često govorio da je u zatvoru stekao dar

was the ability to go within and to think,

da se povuče u sebe i razmišlja,

to create in himself

da u sebi stvori

the things he most wanted for South Africa:

stvari koje je najviše želio za Južnu Afriku:

peace, reconciliation, harmony.

mir, pomirenje i sklad.

Through this act of immense open-heartedness,

Tim činom potpunog otvaranja svog srca

he was to become the embodiment

postao je utjelovljenje

of what in South Africa we call "ubuntu."

onoga što u Južnoj Africi zovemo "ubuntu".

Ubuntu: I am because of you.

Ubuntu: ja jesam zbog tebe.

Or, people are not people

Ili, ljudi nisu ljudi

without other people.

bez drugih ljudi.

It's not a new idea or value

To nije nova ideja ni vrijednosti,

but it's one that I certainly think at these times

ali svakako mislim da je u ova vremena

is worth building on.

vrijedi uzeti za temelj.

In fact, it is said that in the collective consciousness of Africa,

Zapravo, kaže se da u kolektivnoj svijesti Afrike

we get to experience the deepest parts

možemo iskusiti najdublje dijelove

of our own humanity

svoje vlastite ljudskosti

through our interactions with others.

kroz interakcije s drugima.

Ubuntu is at play right now.

Ubuntu se događa upravo sada.

You are holding a space for me

Vi stvarate mjesto na kojem ja mogu

to express the deepest truth of who I am.

iznijeti najdublju istinu o tome tko sam.

Without you, I'm just a guy talking to an empty room,

Bez vas, razgovarao bih s praznom sobom,

and I spent a lot of time last week doing that,

a prošli sam tjedan proveo dosta vremena radeći upravo to,

and it's not the same as this.

A to nije isto kao ovo sad.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

If Mandela was the national and international embodiment,

Ako je Mandela bio nacionalno i međunarodno utjelovljenje ubuntua,

then the man who taught me the most

čovjek koji me osobno najviše naučio

about this value personally was this man,

o toj vrijednosti ovaj je čovjek,

Solly Mhlongo.

Solly Mhlongo.

Solly was born under a tree

Solly je rođen ispod drveta

60 kilometers from where I grew up in Mozambique.

60 km od mjesta gdje sam odrastao u Mozambiku.

He would never have a lot of money,

Nikad nije imao mnogo novca,

but he was to be

ali bio je

one of the richest men I would ever meet.

jedan od najbogatijih ljudi koje sam znao.

Solly grew up tending to his father's cattle.

Solly je odrastao brinući se za očevu stoku.

Now, I can tell you, I don't know what it is about people who grow up looking after cattle,

Ne znam što je to u ljudima koji odrastu brinući se za stoku,

but it makes for über-resourcefulness.

ali iznimno su snalažljivi.

The first job that he ever got in the safari business

Prvi posao koji je imao u safarijima

was fixing the safari trucks.

bio je popravljanje džipova za safari.

Where he had learned to do that out in the bush

Gdje je u divljini to naučio raditi,

I have no idea, but he could do it.

pojma nemam, ali znao je to.

He then moved across into what we called

Zatim se preselio u, kako je on to zvao,

the habitat team.

tim za stanište.

These were the people on the reserve

To su bili ljudi u rezervatu

who were responsible for its well-being.

odgovorni za brigu o njemu.

He fixed roads, he mended wetlands,

Popravljao je ceste, održavao močvare,

he did some anti-poaching.

kontrolirao krivolov.

And then one day we were out together,

Jednog dana, kad smo zajedno bili vani,

and he came across the tracks of where a female leopard had walked.

ugledao je tragove ženke leoparda.

And it was an old track,

To su bili stari tragovi,

but for fun he turned and he began to follow it,

ali ih je iz zabave počeo pratiti.

and I tell you, I could tell by the speed

Po brzini kojom je pratio te tragove

at which he moved on those pad marks

bilo mi je jasno da bi lako mogao imati

that this man was a Ph.D.-level tracker.

doktorat iz praćenja tragova.

If you drove past Solly

Ako biste autom prošli uz Sollyja

somewhere out on the reserve,

negdje u rezervatu

you look up in your rearview mirror,

i pogledali u retrovizor,

you'd see he'd stopped the car

vidjeli bi ste da je zaustavio auto

20, 50 meters down the road

20, 50 metara niz cestu

just in case you need help with something.

za slučaj da vam zatreba pomoć oko nečega.

The only accusation I ever heard leveled at him

Jedina optužba koju sam ikad čuo da mu je netko uputio

was when one of our clients said,

bila je od jednog našeg klijenta:

"Solly, you are pathologically helpful."

"Solly, ti imaš patološku potrebu pomagati."

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

When I started professionally guiding people

Kad sam profesionalno počeo voditi ljude

out into this environment,

u taj okoliš,

Solly was my tracker.

Solly je bio moj tragač.

We worked together as a team.

Radili smo zajedno kao tim.

And the first guests we ever got

Naši prvi gosti

were a philanthropy group from your East Coast,

bila je grupa filantropa s američke istočne obale.

and they said to Solly, on the side, they said,

Rekli su Sollyju, onako sa strane:

"Before we even go out to see lions and leopards,

"Prije nego odemo vidjeti lavove i leoparde,

we want to see where you live."

želimo vidjeti gdje ti živiš."

So we took them up to his house,

I tako smo ih odveli do njegove kuće,

and this visit of the philanthropist to his house

a taj posjet filantropa njegovoj kući

coincided with a time when Solly's wife,

dogodio se u isto vrijeme kad je Sollyjeva žena,

who was learning English,

koja je učila engleski,

was going through a phase where she would open the door

bila u fazi kad bi otvarala vrata

by saying, "Hello, I love you.

i govorila: "Bok, volim te!"

Welcome, I love you." (Laughter)

Dobro došao, volim te!" (Smijeh)

And there was something so beautifully African

Bilo je u tome nečeg predivno afričkog,

about it to me, this small house

ta malena kuća

with a huge heart in it.

i u njoj veliko srce.

Now on the day that Solly saved my life,

Onog dana kad mi je Solly spasio život

he was already my hero.

već je bio moj junak.

It was a hot day,

Bio je vruć dan

and we found ourselves down by the river.

i našli smo se uz rijeku.

Because of the heat, I took my shoes off,

Zbog vrućine sam izuo cipele,

and I rolled up my pants,

zavrnuo hlače

and I walked into the water.

i zagazio u rijeku.

Solly remained on the bank.

Solly je ostao na obali.

The water was clear running over sand,

Voda je bila bistra, a dno pješčano.

and we turned and we began to make our way upstream.

Okrenuli smo se i zaputili uzvodno.

And a few meters ahead of us,

Nekoliko metara pred nama

there was a place where a tree had fallen out of the bank,

bilo je stablo srušeno s obale

and its branches were touching the water,

grane su mu sezale do vode

and it was shadowy.

i bacalo je sjenu.

And if had been a horror movie,

Da se radilo o horor filmu,

people in the audience would have started saying,

ljudi u publici počeli bi govoriti:

"Don't go in there. Don't go in there." (Laughter)

"Ne idi tamo, ne idi tamo!" (Smijeh)

And of course, the crocodile was in the shadows.

Naravno, u sjeni je bio krokodil.

Now the first thing that you notice when a crocodile hits you

Kad vas napadne krokodil, prvo primijetite

is the ferocity of the bite.

silinu ugriza.

Wham! It hits me by my right leg.

Tres! Udri me po desnoj nozi.

It pulls me. It turns. I throw my hand up. I'm able to grab a branch.

Vuče me, okreće. Dižem ruku u zrak i uspijevam uhvatiti jednu granu.

It's shaking me violently.

Trese me svom snagom.

It's a very strange sensation

Vrlo je to čudan osjećaj

having another creature try and eat you,

kad vas drugo biće pokušava pojesti.

and there are few things that promote vegetarianism like that.

Nema bolje preporuke za vegetarijanstvo!

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

Solly on the bank sees that I'm in trouble.

Solly s obale vidi da sam u nevolji.

He turns. He begins to make his way to me.

Okreće se i kreće prema meni.

The croc again continues to shake me.

Krokodil me i dalje trese.

It goes to bite me a second time.

Ugrize me i po drugi put.

I notice a slick of blood in the water around me

U vodi oko sebe primjećujem trag krvi

that gets washed downstream.

kako otječe nizvodno.

As it bites the second time, I kick.

Nakon drugog ugriza, udaram ga nogom.

My foot goes down its throat. It spits me out.

Moja mu noga zapinje u grlu i ispljune me.

I pull myself up into the branches,

Povlačim se gore među grane

and as I come out of the water, I look over my shoulder.

i dok izlazim iz vode, pogledam preko ramena.

My leg from the knee down

Od koljena na dolje,

is mangled beyond description.

noga mi je bila sažvakana.

The bone is cracked.

Kost je bila napuknuta,

The meat is torn up.

meso razderano.

I make an instant decision that I'll never look at that again.

U tom trenu odlučujem da to više nikad neću pogledati.

As I come out of the water,

Dok sam izlazio iz vode,

Solly arrives at a deep section,

Solly je bio na dubljem dijelu,

a channel between us.

i između nas je bio kanal.

He knows, he sees the state of my leg,

Vidio je u kakvom mi je stanju noga

he knows that between him and I

i znao je da se između njega i mene

there is a crocodile,

nalazi krokodil,

and I can tell you this man doesn't slow down for one second.

ali taj čovjek nije zastao ni na sekundu.

He comes straight into the channel.

Ušao je ravno u taj kanal

He wades in to above his waist.

i zagazio u vodu do iznad struka.

He gets to me. He grabs me.

Došao je do mene i uhvatio me.

I'm still in a vulnerable position.

Još sam uvijek bio u ranjivom položaju.

He picks me and puts me on his shoulder.

Uhvatio me i prebacio preko ramena.

This is the other thing about Solly, he's freakishly strong.

To je još jedna Sollyjeva osobina, bizarno je snažan.

He turns. He walks me up the bank.

Okenuo se i izašao sa mnom na obalu.

He lays me down. He pulls his shirt off.

Polegao me, skinuo košulju

He wraps it around my leg,

i zamotao mi je oko noge.

picks me up a second time,

Zatim me ponovno podigao,

walks me to a vehicle,

otišao sa mnom do vozila

and he's able to get me to medical attention.

i uspio me odvesti do liječnika.

And I survive.

I preživio sam.

Now — (Applause)

(Pljesak)

Now I don't know how many people you know

Ne znam koliko ljudi poznajete

that go into a deep channel of water

koji bi zagazili u dubok kanal,

that they know has a crocodile in it

znajući da je ondje krokodil,

to come and help you,

kako bi vam pomogli,

but for Solly, it was as natural as breathing.

ali Sollyju je to bilo prirodno poput disanja.

And he is one amazing example

On je predivan primjer

of what I have experienced all over Africa.

onoga što sam doživio u cijeloj Africi.

In a more collective society,

U kolektivnijem društvu

we realize from the inside

u svojoj nutrini razumijemo

that our own well-being is deeply tied

da je naša dobrobit usko povezana

to the well-being of others.

s dobrobiti drugih.

Danger is shared. Pain is shared.

Opasnost je zajednička. Bol je zajednička.

Joy is shared. Achievement is shared.

Radost je zajednička. Postignuća su zajednička.

Houses are shared. Food is shared.

Kuće su zajedničke. Hrana je zajednička.

Ubuntu asks us to open our hearts

Ubuntu nas traži da otvorimo srca

and to share,

i dijelimo jedni s drugima.

and what Solly taught me that day

Solly me tog dana naučio

is the essence of this value,

samoj biti te vrijednosti

his animated, empathetic action

svojim suosjećajnim djelovanjem

in every moment.

u svakom trenutku.

Now although the root word is about people,

Iako je korijen riječi vezan za ljude,

I thought that maybe ubuntu was only about people.

mislio sam da se ubuntu možda odnosi samo na ljude.

And then I met this young lady.

Dok nisam susreo ovu mladu damu.

Her name was Elvis.

Zvala se Elvis.

In fact, Solly gave her the name Elvis

Zapravo joj je Solly dao to ime,

because he said she walked like she was doing

rekao je da hoda kao da pleše

the Elvis the pelvis dance.

poput Elvisa.

She was born with very badly deformed back legs and pelvis.

Rođena je s teško deformiranim stražnjim nogama i zdjelicom.

She arrived at our reserve from a reserve

U naš je rezervat stigla iz drugog rezervata,

east of us on her migratory route.

istočno od nas, tijekom migracija.

When I first saw her,

Kad sam je prvi put vidio,

I thought she would be dead in a matter of days.

mislio sam da će biti mrtva za nekoliko dana.

And yet, for the next five years

A ipak se idućih pet godina

she returned in the winter months.

vraćala tijekom zimskih mjeseci.

And we would be so excited to be out in the bush

Bili smo tako uzbuđeni kad bismo

and to come across this unusual track.

pronašli njezine neobične tragove.

It looked like an inverted bracket,

Izgledali su poput obrnute zagrade.

and we would drop whatever we were doing and we would follow,

Ostavili bismo što god da smo radili i pratili te tragove.

and then we would come around the corner,

Na kraju bismo zašli za neki ugao

and there she would be with her herd.

i vidjeli je s njezinim krdom.

And that outpouring of emotion

Taj izljev osjećaja

from people on our safari trucks

od ljudi u našim kombijima za safari

as they saw her, it was this sense of kinship.

kad bi je ugledali, to je bio taj osjećaj povezanosti.

And it reminded me

To me podsjetilo

that even people who grow up in cities

da čak i ljudi koji odrastu u gradovima

feel a natural connection

osjećaju prirodnu povezanost

with the natural world and with animals.

s prirodom i životinjama.

And yet still I remained amazed that she was surviving.

A ipak me čudilo što uspijeva preživjeti.

And then one day we came across them at this small water hole.

A onda smo ih jednog dana susreli pokraj malene rupe s vodom.

It was sort of a hollow in the ground.

To je bila obična udubina u zemlji.

And I watched as the matriarch drank,

Gledao sam kako slonica vođa krda pije

and then she turned in that beautiful slow motion of elephants,

i zatim se okreće polako kako to slonovi već rade,

looks like the arm in motion,

poput ruke koja lebdi zrakom,

and she began to make her way up the steep bank.

i kreće uz strmu obalu.

The rest of the herd turned and began to follow.

Okrenuo se i ostatak krda i krenuo za njom.

And I watched young Elvis

Gledao sam kako se Elvis

begin to psych herself up for the hill.

priprema za uspon.

She got visibly -- ears came forward,

Uši je pomaknula unaprijed,

she had a full go of it and halfway up,

svom snagom je krenula i na pola puta

her legs gave way, and she fell backwards.

noge su joj popustile i pala je natrag.

She attempted it a second time,

Pokušala je i drugi put,

and again, halfway up, she fell backwards.

i opet je na pola puta pala natrag.

And on the third attempt,

Pri trećem pokušaju

an amazing thing happened.

dogodila se predivna stvar.

Halfway up the bank,

Na pola puta uz obalu

a young teenage elephant came in behind her,

mladi slon došao je iza nje,

and he propped his trunk underneath her,

podupro je svojom surlom

and he began to shovel her up the bank.

i počeo je poguravati uz obalu.

And it occurred to me

Sinulo mi je

that the rest of the herd

da ostatak krda

was in fact looking after this young elephant.

zapravo pazi na tu mladu slonicu.

The next day I watched again

Idućeg sam dana ponovno gledao

as the matriarch broke a branch

kako je slonica vođa krda slomila granu

and she would put it in her mouth,

i stavila je u usta,

and then she would break a second one

a zatim slomila još jednu granu

and drop it on the ground.

i spustila je na pod.

And a consensus developed between all of us

Svi mi koji smo vodili ljude tim područjem

who were guiding people in that area

zajedno smo zaključili

that that herd was in fact moving slower

da se to krdo zapravo kretalo sporije

to accommodate that elephant.

zbog te jedne slonice.

What Elvis and the herd taught me

Zbog onoga što sam naučio od Elvis i njenog krda

caused me to expand my definition of ubuntu,

proširio sam svoju definiciju ubuntua.

and I believe that in the cathedral of the wild,

Vjerujem da se u katedrali divljine

we get to see the most beautiful parts of ourselves

najdivniji dijelovi nas samih

reflected back at us.

odražavaju natrag prema nama.

And it is not only through other people

Ne doživljavamo svoju ljudskost

that we get to experience our humanity

samo kroz druge ljude,

but through all the creatures that live on this planet.

nego kroz sva stvorenja na ovom planetu.

If Africa has a gift to share,

Afrika ima dar koji želi podijeliti,

it's a gift of a more collective society.

dar kolektivnijeg društva.

And while it's true that ubuntu is an African idea,

Iako ubuntu jest afrička ideja,

what I see is the essence of that value

vidim kako se bit te vrijednosti

being invented here.

upravo rađa i ovdje.

Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)

Pat Mitchell: So Boyd,

Pat Mitchell: Boyde,

we know that you knew President Mandela

znamo da si poznavao predsjednika Mandelu

from early childhood

od ranog djetinjstva

and that you heard the news as we all did today,

i da si čuo vijesti, kao i svi mi danas.

and deeply distraught

Duboko smo potreseni

and know the tragic loss that it is to the world.

i shvaćamo kakav je to tragičan gubitak za svijet.

But I just wondered if you wanted

Želiš li možda

to share any additional thoughts,

s nama podijeliti još koju misao,

because we know that you heard that news

budući da si vijesti čuo

just before coming in to do this session.

tik pred dolazak ovamo.

Boyd Varty: Well thanks, Pat.

Boyd Varty: Hvala, Pat.

I'm so happy because it was time for him to pass on.

Vrlo sam sretan jer došlo je njegovo vrijeme.

He was suffering.

Patio je.

And so of course there's the mixed emotions.

Naravno da imam suprotstavljene osjećaje.

But I just think of so many occurrences

Ali prisjećam se tolikih događaja,

like the time he went on the Oprah show

kao kad je gostovao u Oprah Showu

and asked her what the show would be about.

i pitao o čemu će biti riječi u emisiji.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

And she was like, "Well, it'll be about you."

A ona je rekla: "Pa, o vama."

I mean, that's just incredible humility.

To je nevjerojatna skromnost.

(Laughter)

(Smijeh)

He was the father of our nation

On je otac našeg naroda

and we've got a road to walk in South Africa.

i pred nama u Južnoj Africi stoji put.

And everything, they used to call it Madiba magic.

Mi smo to zvali čarolijom Madiba.

You know, he used to go to a rugby match and we would win.

On bi otišao na ragbi utakmicu i mi bismo pobijedili.

Anywhere he went, things went well.

Gdje god je bio, stvari su išle dobro.

But I think that magic will be with us,

Mislim da će ta čarolija ostati s nama,

and the important thing is that we carry

a bitno je da se i dalje držimo

what he stood for.

onoga što je on zagovarao.

And so that's what I'm going to try and do,

To ću i ja nastojati činiti,

and that's what people all over South Africa are trying to do.

kao i ljudi u cijeloj Južnoj Africi.

PM: And that's what you've done today. BV: Oh, thank you.

PM: To si učinio i danas. BV: Hvala.

PM: Thank you. BV: Thank you. Thanks very much.

PM: Hvala tebi. BV: Hvala. Hvala puno.

(Applause)

(Pljesak)