I met Nelson Mandela twice: in 1992 at a dinner at the Dorchester and in 1993 at a private dinner given by Anthony Sampson at his house in St John's Wood.
In 1984, I had founded the Campaign for Fair Play to stop the British Lions tour to apartheid South Africa in 1985, which was successful; at the time there was only a handful of sportmen and women in the UK prepared to put their head above the parapet - John Taylor, Peteer Roebuck, Donald Woods and Vic Marks- representing rugby and cricket.
In 1987, we received from the UNO a Special Commendation for our stance opposing sporting contacts with white South Africa; we were not popular at the time......