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5th December 2013 #1
South Africa's Nelson Mandela dies
South Africa's first black president and anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has died, South Africa's president says.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25249520
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RIP Nelson Mandela..-=rayna.keith=-
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6th December 2013 #2
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Yes, just seen it on my facebook.
A truly great man. RIP.
Some words we can all relate to on this forum...
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Yes, saw it on the news. Not totally unexpected. But still so sad. A truly great man. His presence will be missed from the world.
Feel a bit speechless.
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6th December 2013 #5
Followed his life for many years, great man indeed, RIP!
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6th December 2013 #6
Top guy. R.I.P Nelson.
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A giant
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7th December 2013 #8
not what some Tories thought Dedworth..
'The ANC is a typical terrorist organisation ... Anyone who thinks it is going to run the government in South Africa is living in cloud-cuckoo land' - Margaret Thatcher, 1987
'How much longer will the Prime Minister allow herself to be kicked in the face by this black terrorist?' - Terry Dicks MP, mid-1980s
'Nelson Mandela should be shot' - Teddy Taylor MP, mid-1980s
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...n-1327902.html
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Aren't there enough Tory v Labour threads on here ?
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Tory vs Labour??? Tories vs basic humanity more like.
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Yawn.
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7th December 2013 #16
selective memory, many in the Tory party are racists, an ex-Tory MP Peter Harry Steve Griffiths died only a couple of weeks ago and represented Smethwick, can you tell me what the Tory slogan was in Smethwick for the 1964 election was
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/482565.stm
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7th December 2013 #18
I think the word hero is handed out a little to easily nowadays. However Mandela most definitely falls into this category.
It really doesn't matter what the modern day politician has to say about him because he will now occupy a place in history that most politicians can only dream of. His work is most definitely done now and may he rest in peace as Africa's greatest ever hero.
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7th December 2013 #19
Can we all for once keep this on the topic it was intended to be and not turn it into a "what did some politician say in 19"
He was a great inspiration to millions, and his legacy lives on.
Rest in peace Mr Mandela
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Have I been looking at another Mandela on the Internet, as the one I see is not that kindly grandfather figure I see on the TV ?
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He signed off on the deaths of innocent people, lots of them
Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s MK terrorists.
Tellingly, not only did Mandela refuse to renounce violence, Amnesty refused to take his case stating “[the] movement recorded that it could not give the name of ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ to anyone associated with violence, even though as in ‘conventional warfare’ a degree of restraint may be exercised.”
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14th December 2013 #21
interesting video on thatcher here by channel 4 news, i remember her talking about the so little £.5m krugerrand, if so little why not do it ? makes you wonder why , for those with short and selective memories of thatcher watch the video
http://blogs.channel4.com/gary-gibbo...ndela-uk/27176
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I'm not going to watch it...because I think she was wonderful.
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