Posted on 12/05/2013 2:11:15 PM PST by Red Badger
Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.
Mandela was 95.
"He is now resting. He is now at peace," Zuma said. "Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father."
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human," the president said in his late-night address. "We saw in him what we seek in ourselves."
Mandela will have a state funeral. Zuma ordered all flags in the nation to be flown at half-staff from Friday through that funeral.
Mandela, a former president, battled health issues in recent months, including a recurring lung infection that led to numerous hospitalizations.
With advancing age and bouts of illness, Mandela retreated to a quiet life at his boyhood home in the nation's Eastern Cape Province, where he said he was most at peace.
Despite rare public appearances, he held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world.
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in South Africa thousands of white people mostly women and girls have been raped ,tortured and murdered by blacks and Mandela is responsible for that . it’s practically a genocide and many whites there cannot make a living because the gov keeps them from making a living
The fraudulent “Truth and Reconciliation” crap..
Mandela never testified to them, no member of his terror group did. None of them was ever in danger of being prosecuted by the ANC government of course.
And such is the case in South Africa. While the idea of Apartheid is not compatible with our ideas of freedom, the “answer” that Mandela had was worse. Worse for the blacks as well.
Information at the following site regarding the political deaths under apartheid and the revolution.
http://www.thetruthaboutsouthafrica.com/p/ancs-black-on-black-killing-spree.html
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The following link is to an article written by the wife of the author of Cry, My beloved Country. Written 50 years ago about apartheid. She wrote it before fleeing South Africa, and said she was glad her husband was dead so he didn't have to see it in such a state.
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/cry.htm
It is sad, but is the obvious outcome when the rulers espouse communist ideals and race baiting techniques, even if they say they have put their terroristic methods behind them.
Coming to a country near you.
IF it wasn’t for whites, Southern Africa would be just as backward as the rest of Africa. Never liked Mandela.
but all that he did is okay, don’t you get it because.... “whites”..
//sarc
Here is a great read about Mandela and his atrocities...
http://youhavetoaskwhy.blogspot.com/2013/04/nobel-peace-laureate-nelson-mandelas.html
BTW- How many people do you have to kill to get a Nobel Peace Prize these days?
Thanks for that list. When I was in high school, I recall thinking that the use of terrorism was okay to “fight a war” because the terrorists didn’t have the weapons that their government had. And also wrongly equated it to the Patriots fighting the British.
Now that I’m older, I realize what an idiot I was. Bombing a grocery store filled with innocents is not the same as ambushing the British on their way to Concord.
Flags at half staff for Mandela but not for Maggie Thatcher, which is just so wonderfully wonderful, I’m speechless!
WELCOME TO WEEKEND UPDATE.....OUR TOP STORY.....NELSON MANDELA IS STILL DEAD........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG98-FxBYgA
Anti-white pogroms in South Africa to begin in 3—2—1...
To me, the biggest clue is the overtone of monomaniacal excess whenever the Enemedia is lionizing its heroes. For the next two weeks we will be deluged with noise about the guy, with the implication that all the while, nothing of consequence is taking place in the world.
Just like this POS/POTUS, he ain’t white; that’s the trump card that excludes them from their truths.
And Mandela’s truth isn’t the fable it’s made out to be. But some of us know that.
At this rate if/when Fidel kicks off, expect him to be laid out in Washington.
“You’d think people would be less inclined to post idiocy under (ostensibly) their real names, but no.”
Someone using a fake name of Facebook? Perish the thought...
The bottom line is the guy was a communist terrorist, period. He was no different than Castro, Guevara, the Bolsheviks, Pot, Mao, Stalin or any other mass murderer who killed for “the people”.
He and his fellow communists have much blood on their hands; but then, that’s their MO.
And any white person that still lives in South Africa is either a fool or oblivious to the reality that Mandela and his horde unleashed on that country. There comes a time when pride takes a back seat and you get the Hell out.
is that why Obama displays such a kinship towards him ??
BAWHHAHA
Obama’s too much of a pussy to get his hands dirty, but yes.
“He prevented massive bloodshed when apartheid was overturned. Right.”
Wrong. He did not prevent it, the restraint of the South African leadership at the time did. He was not prepared to swear off violence.
What is the cutoff for “massive bloodshed”, by the way? 1 million? 100,000?
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