David, thanks for the time and trouble you went to in offering detailed rebuttals to the critiques of the dozen deals I felt Mandela should not have authorised during the 1990s. Here are my responses (in bold and with PB: to avoid confusion). Chee...
Tag: Mandela
No, Malaika, you weren’t liberated by Mandela
NO MALAIKA you weren't liberated by Mandela. Mandela left your liberation up to you. Mandela founded modern South Africa. He was a secularist, a bipartisan and non-sectarian. Primarily an attorney-at-law, he enacted a Bill of Rights as the first president of our country, but left crucial question...
Born free’s celebrate 21st year of our democracy
SOUTH AFRICA'S "Born frees", the generation born on or after 27 April 1994 are now 21 years of age. That's right, South Africa's democracy is celebrating its 21st year of democracy. Symbolically, 21 is traditionally the age where citizens reached the age of majority. However, a 2007 act of parlia...
Nelson Mandela on Israel
Arthur Goldreich fingered as key Zionist Operative in Mandela Trial
THE man believed to be the Zionist operative responsible for providing Nelson Mandela and the ANC with information regarding the use of explosives and war materiale, has been fingered as Arthur Goldreich. Goldreich was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and settled in Israel, where he participat...
Mandela and the Middle East Propaganda War
THIS week the Middle East propaganda war intensified with the redeployment of the late Nelson Mandela. First there was the revelations published by Haaretz that "Mandela received weapons training from Mossad agents in Ethiopia" detailed in a letter classified top secret and dated October 11, 196...