Posted on 01/30/2003 9:36:33 AM PST by Mister Magoo
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
QUICKVOTE Do you agree or disagree with Nelson Mandela's assessment of the United States?
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Former South African president Nelson Mandela has slammed the U.S. stance on Iraq, saying that "one power with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
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Not the guy who owns Denny's?
Where is P.W. Botha when you really need him?
I was in the Capetown area for two weeks, so I have a few unscientific impressions. My experience there certainly cannot be taken as definitive or as endowing me with great insights, I agree. I understand that Johannesburg has some very serious crime problems while the crime rate in Capetown is much less, although still too high.
Nonetheless, it looks to me that South Africa is the last, great hope of the continent. I really do think that the majority of the population there recognizes that they have to live and get along together.
How true. I walked the steets of Jo-Burg in 1984. I wouldn't even get close to that area today.
"Good job Nelson, now wait for further instructions!"
"Awww, yeah, we gonna kill us some white folks now, right Mugabe?"
Mandela Quotes
"We Communist Party members are the most advanced revolutionaries in modern history ... the enemy must be wiped out from the face of the earth before a Communist world can be realized." - Nelson Mandela, during his 1962 trial for terrorism. Quoted in The Wanderer, July 1, 1990, page 6.
"The cause of Communism is the greatest and most arduous cause in the history of mankind. On Page One of this section we found out that our aim is to change the present world into a Communist world where there will be no exploiters and exploited, no oppressor and oppressed, no rich and poor. We also make the point that the victory of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., in China and other States in Asia and Eastern Europe proves that a Communist world is capable of attainment. But in spite of this victorious advance, the Communist movement still faces powerful enemies which must be crushed and wiped out from the face of the earth before a Communist world can be realised. Without a hard and bitter and long struggle against capitalism and exploitation, there can be no Communist world. The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind, because it seeks to remove from society all forms of oppression and exploitation to liberate mankind, and to ensure peace and prosperity to all." - Nelson Mandela, How to be a Good Communist
"Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro... Cuban internationalists have done so much for African independence, freedom, and justice. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist campaign designed to destroy the advances of the Cuban revolution. We too want to control our destiny... There can be no surrender. It is a case of freedom or death. The Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people." - Nelson Mandela, Moncada Barracks Ceremony, Cuba, 30 Jul 91.
Out to eat at a restaurant? BEWARE! The AIDS & HEP-B/C infection rate here is higher than virtually any city in the USA.
Plus, the folks in the kitchen come from foreign regions where use soap and water after going to the toilet never crossed their minds. Look in the waste paper basket in a public restroom, and see toilet paper with feces on it. THEY DONT FLUSH IT! Ever wonder why E-Coli wasn't a common problem in the 60s? Check out the demographic shift.... ...BORDERS ...LANGUAGE ...CULTURE!
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