Okay I admit, the title is a bit of a clickbait; I didn’t meet Nelson Mandela, but I did meet his grandson, Ndaba Mandela, who is one of the heads of the Mandela clan now. This is the story of how I randomly bumped into Ndaba. So after I landed in Porto Alegre to volunteer at the FIFA World Cup in early May of 2014, I had a few days free after my orientation and a few of us volunteers decided to go and explore Rio. I had interacted with a volunteer who had got a role at Rio and we decided to explore the local sights together. We decided…