Tag: Mandela

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Patrick Bond responds

Patrick Bond responds

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...

No, Malaika, you weren’t liberated by 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

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...

Mandela and the Middle East Propaganda War

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...