DUBAI — Five eager sixth grade students from a Dubai school handed over a collection of poems they have written, along with drawings and get-well cards to the South African Consul General in Dubai so he could deliver it to Nelson Mandela. The students — representing their class of 20 and their school — were accompanied by their teachers to meet Consul General Manabile Shogole at the consulate on Thursday, Gulf News said on Friday. They teachers said the students have known South Africa in their studies of literature, history and humanities and were aware of the apartheid issues in that country during Mandela’s time. “In their literature, history and humanities lessons, they have been studying Africa, and have branched off to South Africa, where we learned that Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter ... the result was this project, a compilation of poems and drawings,” Jacqueline Visser, a Sixth Grade teacher, told Gulf News. — SG