Posted on 09/27/2005 10:42:49 PM PDT by Stoat
And unlike so very much that is called 'art' these days, it would actually have some relevance and significance.
BBC News The Winnie Mandela Trial Profile of Winnie Mandela
A 'necklacing' victim
"Do the people of Great Britain really want a huge and expensive statue in one of their most famous and historically significant places deifying a Marxist who, when placed in a position of power, ran his country into the ground and left a legacy of one of the most spectacular escalations of crime ever seen on the planet?"
I'd have thought the general sentiment was 'not particularly bothered' to be honest. Westminster Council is correct that the most appropriate place for it is outside South Africa House, however. Ken Livingstone is wrong. For a change.
He captured the real Mandela then.
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