Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990.
In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg’s youth wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid–South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government.
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In 1961, he was arrested for treason, and although acquitted he was arrested again in 1962 for illegally leaving the country. Convicted and sentenced to five years at Robben Island Prison, he was put on trial again in 1964 on charges of sabotage. In June 1964, he was convicted along with several other ANC leaders and sentenced to life in prison.
Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben Island Prison. Confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He could write and receive a letter once every six months, and once a year he was allowed to meet with a visitor for 30 minutes. However, Mandela’s resolve remained unbroken, and while remaining the symbolic leader of the anti-apartheid movement, he led a movement of civil disobedience at the prison that coerced South African officials into drastically improving conditions on Robben Island. He was later moved to another location, where he lived under house arrest.
In 1989, F.W. de Klerk became South African president and set about dismantling apartheid. De Klerk lifted the ban on the ANC, suspended executions, and in February 1990 ordered the release of Nelson Mandela.
Mandela subsequently led the ANC in its negotiations with the minority government for an end to apartheid and the establishment of a multiracial government. In 1993, Mandela and de Klerk were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. One year later, the ANC won an electoral majority in the country’s first free elections, and Mandela was elected South Africa’s president.
Mandela retired from politics in 1999, but remained a global advocate for peace and social justice until his death in December 2013.
And then the black social justice warriors started killing white farmers and business owners and stole all their shit, drove off the rest of the productive people, and the country went to shit.
Misson Accomplished.
This will be a national day of mourning in South Africa 30 years from now, when SA has become Zimbabwe South….
For every one Nelson Mandela there are 100 Winnie Mandelas who would sentence a child to have a gasoline-soaked tired tied around his head and lit afire. Nelson’s magnaminity bought South Africa an extra 20 years of relative peace, but it seems to be going the way of Zimbabwe eventually. Even Somali refugees in South Africa were recent targets for violence against foreigners. A white person whose family has been there for 200 years is still a foreigner. I’ve heard the government charges an $800,000 fine to emigrate. Whatever. White people need to get the fuck out of there while they still can. And good luck feeding themselves to the blacks left there. It’s working out great in Zimbabwe.
I used to think Mexico was the vision the World Elite had for the US in the future but this article got me thinking and I’m beginning to think it may be South African that is intended by them, but with a much heavier Muslim presence and Islamic influence.
Or maybe something else entirely that we can’t anticipate yet.
We’ll know soon, I think.
Anyone who knows what South aFRICA WAS BEFORE BLACK RULE WEEPS FOR WHAT mANDELA ACCOMPLSIHED. Just another black run nation going back to the jungle.
Comments on several threads indicate Ferguson has a firm grip on the world as it is. It is what it is and we had better deal with it, or else pay the price for neglect.
In retrospect, Britain’s war on the Boers was the worst thing that could have happened to S.A.
If Americans ever allow the cultural marxists to disarm them, we deserve what happens to us.
CWII is here. And it’s right in our faces. I give it 6 months max before open warfare. Let’s take advantage of what time has been given us to further prepare. Did you buy more ammo this week?
He was a communist subversive. They should have killed him the day they caught him.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/20/nelson-mandela-weapons-training-mossad-agents
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/nelson-mandela/9731522/Nelson-Mandela-proven-to-be-a-member-of-the-Communist-Party-after-decades-of-denial.html
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/01/the-mandela-files/
https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/africa/item/15888-saint-mandela-not-so-fast
Got a friend who fled s. Africa. Big war on white people. He left in 2002. Said it was falling apart by then in a hundred ways. Keffa set his mom on fire. Burned her to death along with his sister. Apparently the darker shade gets a bit violent on occasion.
If you want to fuck up a country, put a nigger in charge.
While I understand your sentiment, expressing it in this way is neither insightful nor helpful, cliff. That is the type of comment that gives TBP a bad name.
That being said, I’m also glad that comments like yours are not censored by admin, bc it means that real free speech is facilitated here. Cheers.
I live in this ANC led Uhuru ‘paradise’. Be advised it’s falling apart by the hour. Example, on Friday 10 Feb 2017 the personal assistant to a white private detective who is full time investigating the national POLICE COMMISSIONER for serious CORRUPTION was disappeared, nobody knows where the young lady is, no record of her being arrested, zero help from the cops.
Sadly, another statistic of the failed state that South Africa has become since Mandela was let loose on the population. Small wonder that the 3 major ratings agencies are about to downgrade the place to JUNK status!
Oh, for some ‘light entertainment’ may I invite TBP readers to take a look at the opening of the S.A. parliament last week, a full-on bar fight brawl took place in the house, together with pepper spray in the visitors gallery and mass ejections by state goons. Once more, thanks to the late Mandela and his dear, obscenely corrupt, ANC regime. May the Lord preserve us from the posthumous actions of that Afro-socialist creature.
Did you see that shit show of a SONA the other night?