Nelson Mandela Dead.

[davyboy]

If only our politicians had such values.

A giant among men,

Very sad.

[Mister M]

Very sad news, RIP.

[Phanerothyme]

If the people calling him a 'terrorist' had been in similar circumstances to him and the millions of South Africans living under apartheid, they would be calling him a hero and a freedom fighter.

 

It's the kind of entrenched thinking and inability to see both sides that he fought against all his life, in the courts, on the streets, and from his prison cell.

 

He will be remembered as a giant figure, a peace maker and a liberator, long, long after the names and deeds of his lilliputian critics and opponents have been trodden into the dust and forgotten.

[boyfriday]

I am glad for the white folk in South Africa that Mr Mandella didn't go the whole hog and continue with the terrorist side of his nature.

 

Like I said he had a dark side, no amount of justification you can give Mr Friday can change the fact.

 

We all have a 'dark side', it's hardly a revelation of human nature.

 

It is interesting though that the terrorist acts highlighted previously occurred when Mandela was in prison..do you have any evidence that he orchestrated them?

[retep]

We all have a 'dark side', it's hardly a revelation of human nature.

 

It is interesting though that the terrorist acts highlighted previously occurred when Mandela was in prison..do you have any evidence that he orchestrated them?

 

 

"In his book "Long Walk to Freedom", Nelson Mandela wrote that as a leading member of the ANC’s executive committee, he had “personally signed off” in approving these acts of terrorism, the pictures and details of which follow below. This is the horror which Mandela had “signed off” for while he was in prison"

 

http://www.southafricaproject.info/remembering_the_church_street_bombing.html

[boyfriday]

Maybe we do but you were just in denial of his.

 

Not at all, I just dont believe the acts you describe represent a 'dark side', the ANC had tried peaceful protest however it had little effect. Mandela was imprison from 1960, these 'terrorist acts' happened in the 1980's, I'm surprised they waited so long before they took direct action.

[boyfriday]

"In his book "Long Walk to Freedom", Nelson Mandela wrote that as a leading member of the ANC’s executive committee, he had “personally signed off” in approving these acts of terrorism, the pictures and details of which follow below. This is the horror which Mandela had “signed off” for while he was in prison"

 

http://www.southafricaproject.info/remembering_the_church_street_bombing.html

 

Mandela was in prison in 1983, do you think the authorities allowed him the freedom to associate with the ANC Executive committee or sign off anything?

 

Possession of his photographic image was a criminal offence, this wasn't a regime that thought benignly of him.

 

It's interesting that all the references on the internet to Mandela's interest in the Church Street bombing are on hate or conspiracy sites.

 

If Mandella was a terrorist then surely the French Resistance were during the second world war? How can you be a terrorist fighting for your country, on its very soil?

 

Indeed, and particularly ironic given that some of those who've suddenly become mealy mouthed have a reputation for nationalism.

[Phanerothyme]

"In his book "Long Walk to Freedom", Nelson Mandela wrote that as a leading member of the ANC’s executive committee, he had “personally signed off” in approving these acts of terrorism,

 

What did you think of the rest of the book, out of interest? Because that's not a quote from it.

[boyfriday]

What did you think of the rest of the book, out of interest?

 

:hihi:

[cressida]

I took this as a tribute thread to Mr Mandela, if people want to condemn him then I think it should be on a separate thread