[dangus]

NELSON Mandela shocked me by being as good of a leader as he was. WINNIE Mandela was every misgiving I could have wrapped up into one, and on steroids.

TUTU did nothing other than press for his own self-interest. When he became a global celebrity, the values he took on were indistinguishable from any Hollowood celebrity.

[kearnyirish2]

Nelson Mandela had no misconceptions about what would happen in a South Africa without whites; never mind the bloody disasters from decades before (Katanga secession in the Congo, Biafra secession in Nigeria) - he was watching Zimbabwe (turned over to black rule in 1980) disintegrate before his eyes. He pleaded with whites not to leave, as they would leave the country without doctors and other professionals, and granted concessions to help retain them.

[dfwgator]

Chief Buthelezi would have been a better leader of Post-Apartheid South Africa.

[rlmorel]

Winnie Mandela is an object lesson to those who think that somehow that having females in power is, as a function of their sex, somehow kinder or more civil than that of men.

She was what Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris would be had they been born in South Africa.

[newfreep]

NELSON Mandela was a vile, leftwing COMMUNIST and terrorist who supported "necklacing" his political opponents.

Necklacing: Placing a tire around someone's neck, filling it with gasoline and setting it ablaze.

Only a Stalinesque "useful idiot" would offer any amount of praise on that piece of satanic trash.

"THE ONLY GOOD COMMUNIST IS A DEAD COMMUNIST"