Arthur Goldreich (interviewed by Phil Bonner for Liliesleaf) described Mandela’s room: “It was exactly like a cell, I mean it was like a Buddhist monk’s cell, when you have this notion of someone who has given up the vestiges of a life, and that was prior to devotion and faith and trust and service, this room was an epitome of that kind of service, un-enhanced and monk-like, absolutely pure in that sense, also of course, which certainly impressed me, you know I wasn’t that young, I was in my thirties, and I had a family and I thought that we were treating Madiba badly, but obviously correctly.”