The announcement was made by South African president Jacob Zuma, who said in a nationally televised address," Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father. Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss."
Mandela had spent almost three months in a Pretoria hospital after being admitted in June with a recurring lung infection. He died at his Johannesburg home and Zuma said he would be accorded a full state funeral.
In Washington, President Obama called him one of the "most influential, courageous and profoundly good" people to ever have lived.
"He achieved more than could be expected of any man," an emotional Obama said, in remarks from the White House, adding: "He belongs to the ages."
Mandela, who once said, "the struggle is my life," was a beloved hero of both South Africa and the world itself. His face was instantly recognizable in virtually any country, his story famous enough that he was portrayed in movies at least four times - by Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"), Sidney Poitier ("Mandela and de Klerk"), Danny Glover ("Mandela") and Dennis Haysbert ("Goodbye Bafana").
Stamps were issued with his likeness, songs written about him, statues erected in his honor everywhere from Johannesburg to London and more than 50 universities around the world awarded him degrees. Even a species of spiders was named in his honor.
Mandela, who had been in increasingly frail health in recent years, retired from public life in 2004. He is survived by his third wife, Graca Machel, three daughters (three other children died) and multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In one of his last public appearances, televised in May 2012, Mandela sat in an armchair with a blanket pulled over his lap at his rural home in Qunu and received a symbolic flame to mark the centenary of the African National Congress.
Ironically, the leader hailed as a symbol of peace at one point was on a U.S. terror watch list because of his affiliation with the ANC, which was designated a terrorist organization by South Africa’s apartheid government. He was finally taken off the list in 2008.
Mandela, although initially committed to non-violence, had, in fact, once been involved with the militant wing of the ANC, which was founded in association with the South African Communist Party and carried out a campaign of violence against government targets.
The man who died an anti-apartheid hero, world statesman and symbol of the strength of the human spirit was born Rolihlahla Mandela in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on July 18, 1918. Rolihlahla literally means "pulling the branch of a tree" but more colloquially, "troublemaker."
His father was primary councilor to the Acting Paramount Chief of Thembuland and after his father's death, the 9-year-old Mandela became the chief's ward. He received the English name Nelson from a primary school teacher at his mission school.
The announcement was made by South African president Jacob Zuma, who said in a nationally televised address," Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father. Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss."
Mandela had spent almost three months in a Pretoria hospital after being admitted in June with a recurring lung infection. He died at his Johannesburg home and Zuma said he would be accorded a full state funeral.
In Washington, President Obama called him one of the "most influential, courageous and profoundly good" people to ever have lived.
"He achieved more than could be expected of any man," an emotional Obama said, in remarks from the White House, adding: "He belongs to the ages."
Mandela, who once said, "the struggle is my life," was a beloved hero of both South Africa and the world itself. His face was instantly recognizable in virtually any country, his story famous enough that he was portrayed in movies at least four times - by Morgan Freeman ("Invictus"), Sidney Poitier ("Mandela and de Klerk"), Danny Glover ("Mandela") and Dennis Haysbert ("Goodbye Bafana").
Stamps were issued with his likeness, songs written about him, statues erected in his honor everywhere from Johannesburg to London and more than 50 universities around the world awarded him degrees. Even a species of spiders was named in his honor.
Mandela, who had been in increasingly frail health in recent years, retired from public life in 2004. He is survived by his third wife, Graca Machel, three daughters (three other children died) and multiple grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In one of his last public appearances, televised in May 2012, Mandela sat in an armchair with a blanket pulled over his lap at his rural home in Qunu and received a symbolic flame to mark the centenary of the African National Congress.
Ironically, the leader hailed as a symbol of peace at one point was on a U.S. terror watch list because of his affiliation with the ANC, which was designated a terrorist organization by South Africa’s apartheid government. He was finally taken off the list in 2008.
Mandela, although initially committed to non-violence, had, in fact, once been involved with the militant wing of the ANC, which was founded in association with the South African Communist Party and carried out a campaign of violence against government targets.
The man who died an anti-apartheid hero, world statesman and symbol of the strength of the human spirit was born Rolihlahla Mandela in a village near Umtata in the Transkei on July 18, 1918. Rolihlahla literally means "pulling the branch of a tree" but more colloquially, "troublemaker."
His father was primary councilor to the Acting Paramount Chief of Thembuland and after his father's death, the 9-year-old Mandela became the chief's ward. He received the English name Nelson from a primary school teacher at his mission school.
He attended the University College of Fort Hare, a prestigious residential college for blacks in South Africa, where he was expelled over a student boycott, and then ran away from home to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage.
He eventually completed his bachelor's degree via correspondence courses, studied law and joined the African National Congress in 1942.
After 20 years of leading a non-violent campaign against the South African government, his philosophy switched to armed struggle. In 1964 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting to overthrow the government by violence.
For 18 of his 27 years in prison, he was inmate #46664 on Robben Island, a notorious maximum security facility off Cape Town, where he became a worldwide symbol of resistance to racial oppression.
In 1982, he was moved to Pollsmoor Prison, on the nearby mainland, where he spent much of his time in solitary confinement. In 1985, President P. W. Botha offered to release him if he would renounce armed struggle but he refused, saying "only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts."
Finally released from this third prison, Victor Verster – an event broadcast internationally - on February 11, 1990 , he was elected president of the ANC in 1991.
In 1993 he and President Frederik Willem De Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1994, at the age of 75, he was inaugurated as the first black president of South Africa.
Mandela served as president until 1999, when he retired and became an advocate for a number of human rights organizations and also a spokesman for the fight against AIDS. In 2001 he was treated for prostate cancer.
His philosophy of learning to love instead of hate made him one of the moral leaders of his era.
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion" he wrote in his autobiography.
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for loves comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Mandela was married three times. His first wife was Evelyn Ntoko Mase, from 1944-1957, and they had four children – one son died in a car crash, one son of AIDS and one daughter as an infant.
His second wife was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1958-1996) and they had two daughters before divorcing. On his 80th birthday in 1998 he wed Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel, the former Mozambican president.
But his nation was his beloved offspring as well. "My daughter Zinzi says," he once observed, "that she grew up without a father, who, when he returned, became a father of the nation...for me, there is no place like home."
He attended the University College of Fort Hare, a prestigious residential college for blacks in South Africa, where he was expelled over a student boycott, and then ran away from home to Johannesburg to avoid an arranged marriage.
He eventually completed his bachelor's degree via correspondence courses, studied law and joined the African National Congress in 1942.
After 20 years of leading a non-violent campaign against the South African government, his philosophy switched to armed struggle. In 1964 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting to overthrow the government by violence.
For 18 of his 27 years in prison, he was inmate #46664 on Robben Island, a notorious maximum security facility off Cape Town, where he became a worldwide symbol of resistance to racial oppression.
In 1982, he was moved to Pollsmoor Prison, on the nearby mainland, where he spent much of his time in solitary confinement. In 1985, President P. W. Botha offered to release him if he would renounce armed struggle but he refused, saying "only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts."
Finally released from this third prison, Victor Verster – an event broadcast internationally - on February 11, 1990 , he was elected president of the ANC in 1991.
In 1993 he and President Frederik Willem De Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and in 1994, at the age of 75, he was inaugurated as the first black president of South Africa.
Mandela served as president until 1999, when he retired and became an advocate for a number of human rights organizations and also a spokesman for the fight against AIDS. In 2001 he was treated for prostate cancer.
His philosophy of learning to love instead of hate made him one of the moral leaders of his era.
"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion" he wrote in his autobiography.
"People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for loves comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
Mandela was married three times. His first wife was Evelyn Ntoko Mase, from 1944-1957, and they had four children – one son died in a car crash, one son of AIDS and one daughter as an infant.
His second wife was Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1958-1996) and they had two daughters before divorcing. On his 80th birthday in 1998 he wed Graca Machel, widow of Samora Machel, the former Mozambican president.
But his nation was his beloved offspring as well. "My daughter Zinzi says," he once observed, "that she grew up without a father, who, when he returned, became a father of the nation...for me, there is no place like home."
I doubt the innocent 8 yr old white farm girls that were brutally raped and had their vaginas cut out with broken beer bottles think he was a great leader. But now that I think about it, they're not thinking much this beautiful Friday morning because they're dead. And all the innocent 8 yr old black girls that were shot between the eyes for no reason prolly aren't thinking a lot today either. History is what history was...it's not always what you watch on fox news.
I doubt the innocent 8 yr old white farm girls that were brutally raped and had their vaginas cut out with broken beer bottles think he was a great leader. But now that I think about it, they're not thinking much this beautiful Friday morning because they're dead. And all the innocent 8 yr old black girls that were shot between the eyes for no reason prolly aren't thinking a lot today either. History is what history was...it's not always what you watch on fox news.
I doubt the innocent 8 yr old white farm girls that were brutally raped and had their vaginas cut out with broken beer bottles think he was a great leader. But now that I think about it, they're not thinking much this beautiful Friday morning because they're dead. And all the innocent 8 yr old black girls that were shot between the eyes for no reason prolly aren't thinking a lot today either. History is what history was...it's not always what you watch on fox news.
I doubt the innocent 8 yr old white farm girls that were brutally raped and had their vaginas cut out with broken beer bottles think he was a great leader. But now that I think about it, they're not thinking much this beautiful Friday morning because they're dead. And all the innocent 8 yr old black girls that were shot between the eyes for no reason prolly aren't thinking a lot today either. History is what history was...it's not always what you watch on fox news.
as is the case with most men that walk this earth
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as is the case with most men that walk this earth
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https://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/05/nelson-mandelas-transformation-from-terrorist-to-icon/
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.
- Jim Morrison.
I am conflicted about Mandela, as I am about many historical figures.
But as far as terrorist communist revolutionaries go, he is probably the 2nd most interesting, and probably my favorite.
https://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/05/nelson-mandelas-transformation-from-terrorist-to-icon/
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders, smooth as ravens claws.
- Jim Morrison.
I am conflicted about Mandela, as I am about many historical figures.
But as far as terrorist communist revolutionaries go, he is probably the 2nd most interesting, and probably my favorite.
Wowzers.
Google harder, it is there. you might want to cross reference it with the ANC.
Or maybe just check out the Wikipedia page.
Wowzers.
Google harder, it is there. you might want to cross reference it with the ANC.
Or maybe just check out the Wikipedia page.
But as far as terrorist communist revolutionaries go, he is probably the 2nd most interesting, and probably my favorite.
We know Rand Paul is your favorite terrorist fascist revolutionary.
But as far as terrorist communist revolutionaries go, he is probably the 2nd most interesting, and probably my favorite.
We know Rand Paul is your favorite terrorist fascist revolutionary.
Nelson Mandela could not enter the United States without a special waiver until 2008... Up until that time, he was on a terrorist watch list.
Mandela and the African National Congress were on a U.S. terror watch list until Pres.GWBush signed a bill removing them in 2008.
The reality is..... Mandela was a Marxist terrorist and a communist sympathiser..
Nelson Mandela could not enter the United States without a special waiver until 2008... Up until that time, he was on a terrorist watch list.
Mandela and the African National Congress were on a U.S. terror watch list until Pres.GWBush signed a bill removing them in 2008.
The reality is..... Mandela was a Marxist terrorist and a communist sympathiser..
We know Rand Paul is your favorite terrorist fascist revolutionary.
No acts of terror yet, but my fingers are crossed.
We know Rand Paul is your favorite terrorist fascist revolutionary.
No acts of terror yet, but my fingers are crossed.
Nelson Mandela could not enter the United States without a special waiver until 2008... Up until that time, he was on a terrorist watch list.
Mandela and the African National Congress were on a U.S. terror watch list until Pres.GWBush signed a bill removing them in 2008.
The reality is..... Mandela was a Marxist terrorist and a communist sympathiser..
There is no question Mandela either did or turned a blind eye on some horrible things but I would bet a lot of "heroes" probably had done the same.
To a much lesser extent, President Reagan vetoed the Anti-Apartheid" bill against South Africa(considered an ally at the time)which later on was overrode by the Congress. I don't think most would consider him a racist with all facts considered. Should I consider President Bush also a terrorist and communist sympathizer or just a no-backbone conservative who fold under pressure?
My point is you always are more than willing to overlook part of the picture as long as it fits your agenda.
Nelson Mandela could not enter the United States without a special waiver until 2008... Up until that time, he was on a terrorist watch list.
Mandela and the African National Congress were on a U.S. terror watch list until Pres.GWBush signed a bill removing them in 2008.
The reality is..... Mandela was a Marxist terrorist and a communist sympathiser..
There is no question Mandela either did or turned a blind eye on some horrible things but I would bet a lot of "heroes" probably had done the same.
To a much lesser extent, President Reagan vetoed the Anti-Apartheid" bill against South Africa(considered an ally at the time)which later on was overrode by the Congress. I don't think most would consider him a racist with all facts considered. Should I consider President Bush also a terrorist and communist sympathizer or just a no-backbone conservative who fold under pressure?
My point is you always are more than willing to overlook part of the picture as long as it fits your agenda.
....... "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." ~ Vito Corleone
....... "A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." ~ Vito Corleone
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