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     My name is Elias. I am a poor black worker in South Africa. The time l_____ I first met Nelson Mandela

was a very difficult period of my life. I was twelve years old. It was in 1952 and he had opened a black law

firm to advise poor black people 2_____ their problems.

     I began school at six. The 3_____ where I studied only two years was three kilometres away. I had to

leave, 4_____ my family could not continue to pay the school fees and the bus 5_____. I could not read

6_____ write. After trying hard, I got a job in a gold mine. This was a time when one had got to have a

passbook to live in Johanneburg. 7_____ (sad) I did not have this passbook because I was not born there and 

I was worried 8_____ whether I would be out of work.

     The day when Nelson Mandela told me what to do and helped me was one of the 9_____ (happy) days of

my life. He told me how to get the correct papers so I could stay in Johanneburg. I never forgot 10_____ kind

he was and when he organized the ANC Youth League, I joined it as soon as I could.