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RIP Mandela
A man of great actions and great words - the world has lost a crusader for peace and human rights. RIP Mandela!
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He was the right man to bring South Africa to where it is today without a bloody battle. Simply amazing courage, vision and leadership. The movie about him is very good.
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A patient, courageous man. I'm glad I lived through his era.
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I claim to be probably the only member of this forum who voted for him. It's a pity his successors are such worthless idiots. He was certainly unique and probably too hard an act to follow.
- Peter.
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It certainly has. Rest in peace, Mr. Mandela.
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Look at what you get to vote for here and now...
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Great loss of a courageous man. I actually had a chance to meet him (sort of} back in November 2001 in Toronto. Back when I used to work full time I was part of a high speed RCMP motorcade driving members of his entourage to several venues for a few days. The limo company I worked for has a contract with the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs, Protocol Office.
Park Public School was renamed Nelson Mandela Park Public School during his final visit in November 2001.
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I can't feel the same sentiment as is being displayed here. This is the same man that founded uMkhonto we Sizwe. This is the same man who spent many years of life was spent in prison for pushing communist agenda in SA. The same man that, after being elected, was filmed chanting a pledge to kill all whites in South Africa. The same man that was married to a woman that got her rocks off "necklacing" the ANC's enemies...that means she would fill a tire with petrol, place it around their necks, and light them.
Since 1994, 68,000 whites have been brutally tortured and murdered by blacks in South Africa, in ways too gruesome to describe, including almost 4,000 Boers whose farms were confiscated by savage murderers, a combined area of over 25,000 square miles. (citing an article entitled The Real Mandela published in the American Free Press) No, I have no wishes of peace for this man...
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Politicians want you to know them by what they say.
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I think he did about the best he could under the circumstances. But ultimately you can only do so much when the raw material is dross. - Peter.
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Mandela made choices no man should ever have to make about whether to lead a people into bloodshed for a just cause.
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And yes, his successors are truly worthless, corrupt idiots. Unfortunately, that seems to be the re-occuring theme through out African countries once they gain independence.
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Reagan and Thacher continued support for S.A.'s apartheid regime, so the communists probably saw an opportuninty to foster some "goodwill" most likely to just further their own agenda.
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And, I may add, we continue to support apartheid in the Middle East when it's convenient for us (or to appease our local religious nutjobs).
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