Jeremy Vearey

Vearey worked as a bodyguard for Mandela between December 1990 and January 1994

I remember, in December 1993, working as Madiba’s bodyguard on a well-deserved holiday in the Bahamas.

During one of his morning walks I noticed that he was cross with me. After an uncomfortable silence he asked me why I hadn’t told him that my grandmother had died and that she had been buried two days before.