Non-African heritage citizens of South Africa, what is your perspective for Nelson Mandela?

Nelson Mandela was another Yasser Arafat: a ruthless terrorist with the deaths of thousands of innocent people on his hands, who found his crimes pardoned and then expunged by the media. The media built up the myth of Mandela the non-violent resister, Mandela the political prisoner who spent 27 years in jail merely for speaking out against apartheid, Mandela the destroyer of apartheid, Mandela who was Martin Luther King and Gandhi combined.

In reality there was a different Mandela, the Mandela who co-founded the military wing of the ANC, the Mandela who spurred decades of political violence against both the government and black South African civilians, the Mandela who was ultimately responsible for many more civilian deaths than the government, the Mandela whose wife Winnie established "necklacing," the Mandela whose group was described by Margaret Thatcher as "a typical terrorist organization," the Mandela who took arms money from corrupt African dictators and trained as a guerilla in Ethiopia, the Mandela who earned his place on the US terror watch list until 2008. This Mandela is completely forgotten by the media and the vast majority of people have absolutely no idea of him.

Mandela did not even spur the end of apartheid. South Africa survived decades of terrorist attacks by the ANC, Umkhonto we Sizwe, Cosatu, etc. It survived the collapse of allies in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Angola, the independence of those countries and their use as battlegrounds against it. It survived an economic and political blockade by almost all of Africa and all the socialist and non-aligned countries. All this happened and South Africa still had an economy greater than all the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa combined. It was only the sanctions by the US, Britain and the rest of Europe in the mid-1980s, that doomed the country by cutting off all Western commerce. Once that happened apartheid ended in a few years.

So do I mourn Mandela today? That depends on which Mandela I believe he was, because I am an educated man. Mandela was a typical terrorist. The most disgusting thing is when people who learn that he was a terrorist excuse him as a "freedom fighter." He got lucky and found himself rehabilitated by the media. He got luckier and found himself cast as the head of the world's last major racial equality movement. There is no Mandela really, there are only the textbooks, magazines and newspapers, television channels, asskissing politicians, etc. They made him. Since I know the truth, it would be silly to pretend otherwise just because it's unpopular.

Nelson Mandela managed to achieve a peaceful transfer from a predominantly Afrikaner dominated

South Africa to a Black dominated racially shared democratic South Africa.

Free of bitterness and revenge for all the indignities he and Non-White South African suffered, he healed the country and achieved reconciliation.

It may be true that the country may not yet be as efficiently run as it was during White rule,but it takes time to bring First World standards to a country that was ruled by one group at the expense of others and where the majority of the population were denied opportunities.And which lacked democracy for most South Africans.And suppression of human rights were entrenched in laws.

Although South Africa has experienced some redistribution of opportunities through affirmative action and an increase of violence and corruption,overall a new multiracial society has emerged with a much larger proportion of Black and other Non-White South Africans.

All this was due in the first place to Nelson Mandela.Granted he had a partner for change in Willem de Klerk.But without Mandela's saint- like ability to separate his fight against White domination and his acceptance of White South African as fellow citizens and compatriots in a new shared South Africa.

It is thanks to him that South Africa was spared the bloodiest revolution of the modern era.

He was the greatest South African of all times.

By the way. It was the last white president F.W de Klerk who took apartheid away, not Nelson Mandela. Because de Klerk knew that Mandela was going to win the elections if he let black people can vote legally, because black people make up the majority of South Africa so de Klerk knew Mandela was going to win. So F.W de Klerk actually gave the country to Nelson Mandela. But Nelson Mandela was actually a very good president, he really took care of South Africa.

Mandela was amazing! He brought the nation to where it needed to be.

Wether the cops are not as quick on their feet as they were before apartheid had nothing to do with Madiba's rule.

He definitely brought a better life to south africans.

I'm a white south african... incase you needed to know my heritage?

He was an angel for South Africa!

It has nothing to do with Nelson Mandela. The current government is just incompetent. They care more about race than merit.

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