style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.65625px;"> Has anyone else been commemorated so fully while still alive? What the literary scholar Rob Nixon wrote about the years of Mandela’s imprisonment, from 1964 to 1990, seems partly true again – absented from the political present, but remaining a pre-eminent inhabitant of South Africa’s past and future, Mandela lives “on the cusp of time, embodying a people’s hope, yet monumentalised on a scale ordinarily reserved for the dead”.