London: Mandela statue provokes another battle of Trafalgar

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | September 28, 2005 | Nigel Reynolds

[Stoat]

Probably won't be long till someone hangs a petrol filled
tire around it's neck. Now THAT will be art!!!

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

[Canard]

"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.

[N. Theknow]

Prof Williams described Mr Walters's effort as "a mere husk, an empty shell"

He captured the real Mandela then.