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The world lost a great great leader. Imagine being held captive for almost 30 years as an innocent man and then walking our of jail to "forgive" you captors. He had to power as the president to prosecute them all but never did...he had a nation of people who wanted him to do it...her never did...WOW. I am not sure many of us could do that....
For a man that has gone through so much pain, suffering and carrying the weight of a nation...Mandela is smiling in the majority of the photos you see. Not a fake "smile for the camera" but a natural one...A smile that seems to assure you that everything is okay no matter what the situation is... - Check out the photos here to see what I mean. - http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...tures-20131205
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Mandela led fight against Apartheid but not against Extreme Inequality
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I agree Xavier. He gave off a good chunk of his life for a people and a nation. Huge sacrifice. Sad....too much for one man to accomplish in a lifetime. This is being discussed on CBC. Thoughts? Reactions? Could he have done more? I don't think so. What is his legacy? He did so much but more work remains.
If he had not made certain compromises there would have been a bloodbath in South Africa and a total flight of capital. The key now is to raise the standard of living for the population.Mandela legacy: South African economy worse than before Apartheid was dissolved
On Dec. 5, former South African patriot and Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela died after a long battle with tuberculosis. As the world mourns an icon who's popularity is based more on fiction than on fact, the sad truth is that the former terrorist and communist party leader left his native land far worse off economically than before Apartheid was eradicated from the society.The ANC is worse than the apartheid government, Economic Freedom Fighter founder Julius Malema said on Saturday (Sep. 21).The African National Congress was the political party led by Nelson Mandela that took over power from the former white government in 1994 after his release from prison, and for the past 19 years, the ANC has controlled South African politics under the guise of 'Democracy'.
"Our people did not die for a house that will not last for three months,'' he said referring to RDP houses.
He said the ANC built small poor quality houses in contrast to what they had been fighting for. "There is nothing dignified about the houses."
He said black people would never own land under the ANC. - Mail and Guardian
However, in 2006 award winning journalist John Pilger wrote his controversial work, Freedom Next Time, that Nelson Mandela and top members with the ANC forged secret agreements with the Apartheid government to allow South African elites to remain as the primary corporatists, while at the same time, negating their promises to the black Africans regarding land ownership and a new prosperity.
John Pilger’s 2006 Freedom Next Time that the African National Congress (the former “terrorist” organization led by Nelson Mandela) held secret meetings with the apartheid government between 1987 and 1990 to organize an orderly “transition” from apartheid to a black-governed liberal democracy that would keep property and business in the hands of a white elite.
Part of the “compromise” they agreed to was the elevation of a black super class into positions of responsibility in the South African mining and banking establishment. In other words, they agreed to eliminate political apartheid by giving the black majority voting rights – replacing it with economic apartheid. It makes perfect sense now why poverty and living conditions are so much worse under the ANC than they were under apartheid. - stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com
Today, South Africa is known as the rape capital of the world, where lawlessness runs rampant as blacks commit atrocities against white landowners with little reprisal. Additionally, poverty has increased since the time of Apartheid, with 55% of South African blacks living below that level, with per capita income lower now when compared to 1995.
Like the former PLO President Yassir Arafat, the world has taken a terrorist and criminal and made them into an idol of virtue. Apartheid in South Africa was a form of political slavery that segregated the majority from the minority, and its time for dissolution was long past. However, the legacy that Nelson Mandela leaves for a nation he sought to first take by force, then take by secret diplomacy, shows that in the end, Mandela was not about equality and justice, but about achieving power no matter what promises were broken, or what deals he made with the devilComment
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After all that leniency, people still make up them mouth to say things like this:What would Malena have said if white people were on the receiving end of this treatment? He reminds me of those useless republicans in the US who compare every striking thing to slavery.The ANC is worse than the apartheid government, Economic Freedom Fighter founder Julius Malema said on Saturday (Sep. 21).
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same suh de email come tuh I wid all de colours...
Winnie Mandelaaccuses Nelson of letting downSouth Africa's Blacks
Winnie Mandela has accused her former husband of letting down Black people living in South Africa.
7:00AM GMT 09 Mar 2010
Nelson and Winnie Mandela in happier time
s soon after his release from prisonPhoto: REUTERS
In a strongly-worded attack she claimed that Nelson Mandela had failed to help the poor, instead becoming a "corporate foundation" who only ever appeared in public to raise money for the African National Congress (ANC) political party.
Mrs Mandela, 73, also criticised his acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk, the former prime minister who had Mandela jailed, according to the Daily Mail. She said: "This name Mandela is an albatross around the necks of my family.
"You all must realise that Mandela was not the only man who suffered. There were many others, hundreds who languished in prison and died."
She said her former husband went into prison as a revolutionary, but had changed.
"Mandela let us down. He agreed to a bad deal for the Blacks. Economically we are still on the outside. The economy is very much 'white'.
"I cannot forgive him for going to receive the Nobel with his jailer de Klerk. Hand in hand they went. Do you think de Klerk released him from the goodness of his heart?
"He had to. The times dictated it, the world had changed."
The Mandelas were married for 38 years. They divorced in 1996.
Mrs Mandela also hit out at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee - which she appeared before in 1997 and which implicated her in gross violations of human rights.
"Look at this Truth and Reconciliation charade. He should never have agreed to it," she said.
"What good does the truth do? How does it help anyone to know where and how their loved ones were killed or buried?"
The comments were made in an interview with Nadira Naipaul, the wife of novelist V S Naipaul.
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)
Court body established by the newSouth African government in 1995 to help heal the country and bring about a reconciliation of its people by uncovering the truth about human rights violations that had occurred during the period of apartheid. Its emphasis was on gathering evidence and uncovering information—from both victims and perpetrators—and not on prosecuting individuals for past crimes, which is how the commission mainly differed from theNürnberg trialsthat prosecutedNazis afterWorld War II. The commission released the first five volumes of its final report on Oct. 29, 1998, and the remaining two volumes of the reporton March 21, 2003.
NOWHITE SOUTH AFRIKKAN WERE PROSECUTED AND PUNISHED FOR THE KILLINGS OFTHOUSANDS IF NOT MILLIONSOFBLACK SOUTH AFRIKANSBY THIS TRUTH AND RECONILIATON COMMITTEE. THIS IS WHATWINNIE MANDELAIS TALKING ABOUT WHENNELSONSTOOD SIDE BY SIDEACCEPTINGTHE NOBEL PEACE PRIZEWITH THE BUTCHER (DE KLERK) WHO WAS PRIMAIRLY RESONNSIBLE FOR THOUSANDS OF THESE DEATHS AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS SHARE IN THESE KILLINGS.NOTHING POSITIVE CAME ABOUT FOR BLACKS IN THE TEN YEARS NELSON WAS SOUTH AFRIKAS PRESIDENT.WHITE FOLK STILL CONTROL THE RICH MINERAL WEALTH AND THE MILITARY WHO MAINTAINS A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP WITH ZIONIST ISRAEL.
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