Posted on 06/23/2013 6:27:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Nelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, took a turn for the worse and was in critical condition today in his battle with a lung infection, according to a statement from the South African president's office.
"The doctors are doing everything possible to get his condition to improve and are ensuring that Madiba is well-looked after and is comfortable. He is in good hands," South African Jacob Zuma said, using Mandela's tribal nickname.
Mandela had been listed in "serious but stable condition" for since he entered the hospital June 8.
The 94-year-old Nobel Peace prize winner's medical team informed the president's office that Mandela's condition become critical over the past 24 hours, according to the statement.
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Hugo, now Nelson at the precipice of eternity, we are so blessed.
I am not sure the angst when a person is over 90, and they are critical......isn’t it expected?
I mean we don’t want them to suffer, but seriously, people by this age have lived a long time, why the weeping and waling?
a thousand will rise in each’s place.
well, you know, the “world is bracing itself”.
The moment he is declared dead, the knives come out. I wouldn’t be in SA now for love nor money.
That thread might get pulled then.
Yes, the husband of the idol of Michelle Obama, Winnie ‘Neckless” Mandela:
Who is Winnie Mandela?
Necklacing is the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with petrol, around a victim’s chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process. The practice became a common method of lethal lynching among black South Africans (black on black violence) The first recorded instance took place in Uitenhage on 23 March 1985 when black African National Congress of Nelson Mandela (ANC) supporters killed a black councillor who was accused of being a collaborator of the “Apartheid government. Another victim was Maki Skaskona. During Apartheid anyone the ANC suspected of being an “enemy”, or wanted to intimidate the signal was the look at someone while shaking a box of matches. This would be a signal to the other party to watch out as they might become a necklace victim. (Matches being used to set someone with petrol alight) In modern day South Africa necklacing is still used. Though the tire and petrol necklace is the South African method, other countries do not use the tire for mob justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffv4TcpfyAs
How’s Generalissimo Franco doing?
There will a genocide.Since it will be whites being butchered,don’t expect Obama or the UN to lift a finger to stop it.
Obama will be first in line at his funeral. Wouldn’t even go to Margaret Thatcher’s. Thatcher was 10,000 times greater than Mandela, in my singular opinion.
It’s a shame that Winnie won’t be waiting for him on the other side.
Is that why Bambi is going to SA? The only polite thing I can say about Mandela is that at least he doesn’t seem to have been an Islamist.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens when he goes.Is his presence some sort of stabilizing,unifying influence that will disappear when he’s gone thus giving license to some of the psychopaths there (there are certainly at least *some*...including in positions of influence) to mete out “revolutionary justice” on “enemies of the people”,both black and white?
Well, if Snowden can get political asylum in Venezuela or Ecuador and mosque-building is at an all time high here in the US, your statement is not that far from belief.. or reality.
Well, then, we’re about to find out if a racial cleansing campaign will commence upon the death of Mandela. Expatriate South Africans in my acquaintance believe it, why I’ve never fully understood. They worry for their family and friends who remain.
I am not sure the angst when a person is over 90, and they are critical......isn’t it expected?
Because the question in SA is "what's going to happen when Mandela dies?"
Bad things, probably.
I really don’t care.....(kept it civil)
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