http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mandela/ en-us Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:29:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128653/posts -snip- I was in Washington DC the night of the election. America’s beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street – which runs due north from the White House – the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a... Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128653/posts#comment Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2072642/posts By Gemma Meyer (Gemma Meyer is the pseudonym of a South African journalist. She and her husband, a former conservative member of parliament, still reside in South Africa.) People used to say that South Africa was 20 years behind the rest of the Western world. Television, for example, came late to South Africa (but so did pornography and the gay rights movement). Today, however, South Africa may be the grim model of the future Western world, for events in America reveal trends chillingly similar to those that destroyed our country. America's structures are Western. Your Congress, your lobbying groups, your... Obama-Biden http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2072642/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029455/posts When Nelson Mandela took power from the white minority government in South Africa in 1994, the longtime anti-apartheid activist held out hope that this was the beginning of the end of his people's poverty and the decades-long oppression that kept them in it. His gestures of reconciliation toward his and their erstwhile oppressors are credited with avoiding bloody conflict in the country, leading the world to hail South Africa as a "miracle." Today, South Africa is at a crossroads. The heirs to Mandela's legacy are battling among themselves, as the hope he inspired is fading under the weight of unmet... NPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029455/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:27:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047401/posts LONDON — There was a time, not all that long ago, when he was the invisible man whose name was a battle cry, his appearance known to most people only from an out-of-date photograph, a hidden hero on a prison island off the coast of Africa. But as he celebrated his 90th birthday Friday, Nelson Mandela was anything but invisible, a figure of reverence whose nine decades have been marked and observed at a huge rock concert in London’s Hyde Park, a gala dinner for his children’s charity in the august, chandeliered Long Room at Lord’s cricket ground and a... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047401/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:39:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039556/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela is to be removed from U.S. terrorism watch lists under a bill President Bush signed Tuesday. Mandela and other members of the African National Congress have been on the list because of their fight against South Africa's apartheid regime, which gave way to majority rule in 1994. Apartheid was the nation's system of legalized racial segregation that was enforced by the National Party government between 1948 and 1994. The bill gives the State Department and the Homeland Security Department the authority to waive restrictions against ANC members. "He had no place... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039556/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 03:11:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037625/posts WASHINGTON, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Former South African President Nelson Mandela received a gift for his 90th birthday as U.S. Congress finally approved the removal of his name from the country's terrorist list, local media reported on Friday. The Senate unanimously greenlighted the legislation on a voice vote late on Thursday, removing the "terrorist" label and travel restrictions imposed on Mandela and other senior members of his African National Congress (ANC). A same legislation was passed on May 8 at the House of Representatives. In an address to the Senate last month, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged for... Xinhua http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037625/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:44:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036971/posts London Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036971/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:46:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036608/posts The former South African president, who has himself been criticised for his failure to condemn the Mugabe regime, made his comments to an audience of world leaders and celebrities at a private fundraising dinner. Among the guests in Hyde Park were Gordon Brown and Bill Clinton, who also spoke, as well as Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and many of the stars who act as ambassadors for Mr Mandela's charities. The statesman, who is in Britain for a week-long visit in advance of his 90th birthday next month, mentioned Zimbabwe only briefly, calling on his audience to reach out... The daily telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036608/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:35:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034385/posts Residents from the mining town of Kadoma awoke Friday morning to the sound of Zanu PF thugs demanding they pull down their satellite dishes or risk having their homes burnt down. Frightened residents hastily took down their satellite dishes after the Zanu PF mobs moved around the suburbs to enforce their demands. They accused foreign news stations, accessed via satellite, of misinforming Zimbabweans on the political situation in the country. A woman told us that all the men from nearby Venus Mine were forced to join the Zanu PF mobs in ‘a war against the residents of Kadoma.’ Two trucks... Newsreel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034385/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010094/posts WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- Nelson Mandela, South Africa's Nobel Prize-winning symbol of hope for leading the fight against apartheid, is reported still on U.S. terrorist watch lists. His inclusion means Mandela must have special permission to enter the United States, USA Today said Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls it "embarrassing" and some members of Congress vow to fix it, hopefully by Mandela's 90th birthday on July 18. The same entry requirements apply to other members of South Africa's governing African National Congress, the once-banned anti-apartheid organization. In the 1970s and '80s the ANC was officially branded... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2010094/posts#comment Fri, 2 May 2008 05:13:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968309/posts IT was early 1994 when Nelson Mandela gave a speech in a slum outside Cape Town and spoke in grand terms of a new beginning and how when he was elected president every household would have a washing machine. People took him literally. A few months later he became South Africa's first black president. That's when clerks in department stores in Cape Town had to turn people away demanding their free washer and dryer. Having spent some time as a reporter in South Africa watching the Mandela presidency I was reminded of that story this week when I travelled with... The Austrailian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968309/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:43:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900447/posts It has become apparent that some journalists covering President Bush either have a learning disability or work extra hard to twist his words until the reporters turn into novelists. The latest to prove this theory correct works for Reuters, which sent out a story that claimed George Bush thought that Nelson Mandela had died, when in fact Bush used an analogy that clearly sailed over Reuters' head. It also showed that some progressive bloggers don't do much research when jumping all over a news quote: (via Memeorandum, Instapundit, and Best of the Web) Nelson Mandela is still very much alive... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900447/posts#comment Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:34:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900410/posts Reuters Misleads About Bush Saying 'Mandela's Dead' By Warner Todd Huston | September 21, 2007 - 15:26 ET This one takes the cake as today, Reuters is trying to manufacture a controversy. Apparently alReuters doesn't understand the concept of "context" because they're idiotically claiming that in his Thursday press conference Bush said that Nelson Mandela is dead. Calling what Bush said "an embarrassing gaffe," Reuters took Bush's words out of context to make it seem as if Bush was talking about something he was not talking about. But any intelligent person can easily understand Bush's context merely by listening to... newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900410/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:59:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1870835/posts Nelson Mandela (C), celebrating his 89th birthday, stands flanked by ex-US president Jimmy Carter (R) and former UN chief Kofi Annan (L), during the launching ceremony of the group known as The Elders in Johannesburg. A brains trust of elder statesmen such as Carter and former UN chief Kofi Annan was launched by Mandela Wednesday with a call to bring hope to a conflict-ridden world.(AFP/Alexander Joe) 'The Elders' Announcement, Johannesburg, South Africa. Graca Machel, Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Nelson Mandela, Li Zhaoxing, Kofi Annan, Muhammad Yunus, Desmond Tutu. http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1870835/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:45:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869122/posts Excerpt - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa: Bill Clinton charmed crowds in South Africa this week, showing the diplomatic skills he could put to use if his wife becomes America's first woman president. Hillary Clinton has said that she would make her husband a roaming ambassador, using his talent to repair America's tattered image abroad. Guests at a birthday function Bill Clinton attended in Johannesburg on Thursday for former South African President Nelson Mandela wanted to know if the American was ready for a role reversal. "You bet!" Bill Clinton said, sitting next to a chuckling Mandela. ~ snip ~ Associated Press (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1869122/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868459/posts JOHANNESBURG -- The official order of business yesterday was the introduction of The Elders: convened at the request of Nelson Mandela, a collection of former leaders that has begun to work together to advance the causes of peace and global justice. Five Nobel Laureates and a handful of other eminences gathered on the stage in Johannesburg as Mr. Mandela announced that they would seek to fulfill the traditional role of elders in a village, providing wisdom and leadership and attempting to resolve conflicts, taking on everything from climate change to the fighting in Darfur.<>p>snip But as the Elders sat in... globeandmail.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868459/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845673/posts This editorial board is happy to see that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela -- the former wife of Nelson Mandela -- has been denied a visa to enter Canada from South Africa. Ms. Madikizela-Mandela is a convicted criminal who had a hand in several notorious crimes. Those crimes should not be whitewashed merely because of her past role as an opponent of apartheid. Ms. Madikizela-Mandela had been scheduled to deliver the keynote address at a Toronto fundraiser last night, where she was also to be feted as the subject of a new opera based on her life, The Passion of Winnie. As best... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845673/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 10:30:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791163/posts Mandela sues over 'missing' cash By Christopher Munnion in Johannesburg Last Updated: 1:33am GMT 26/02/2007 Nelson Mandela is taking legal action against a former friend and lawyer after £118,000 was reported to be missing from a trust fund. The retired South African president's legal team alleges in papers filed at the Johannesburg High Court that Ismael Ayob, a former fund trustee, used the money to buy cars and pay large sums into his own companies. In an affidavit, George Bizos and Wim Tremgrove, who are both trustees of the fund, allege that Mr Ayob made "disbursements of more than 1.2... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791163/posts#comment Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:29:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/948848/posts Glasgow, Scotland Amid tight security, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, the man convicted of murdering 270 innocent people on an airliner that was downed by explosive device over Scotland in 1988, was rushed to hospital in Glasgow on Friday from Barlinnie Prison for unknown ailments. Ushered in through a rarely used “Decontamination Entrance Room” at the hospital, the terrorist was whisked down the hospital’s corridors with a SWAT team-like escort. The Decontamination Room in the hospital is specially designed with state of the art equipment to decontaminate victims of NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) attack. The entrance was used for security... Myself http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/948848/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2003 02:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774357/posts Washington - The United States (US) treasury department named two South African cousins as al-Qaeda financiers and facilitators, ordering a freeze on any US assets they may have and banning Americans from doing business with them. The treasury, invoking an executive order used to combat terrorist financing and money laundering activities, said Farhad Ahmed Dockrat provided funds to a trust used by al-Qaeda, and his cousin, Junaid Ismail Dockrat, helped facilitate travel of South Africans to Pakistan for al-Qaeda training. The action ends days of speculation about the two Muslim cousins after a South African foreign ministry spokesperson said Johannesburg... News 24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1774357/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:09:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690417/posts JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate. Robbers kill their victims, bystanders kill criminals, family members kill each other. Gunbattles erupt on streets and in shopping malls. Passers-by whip out pistols and join in firefights between criminals and police or security guards. A recent flurry in high profile bloodshed even has police suggesting they are losing the fight with violent crime. Plans for South Africa to host soccer's next World Cup, in 2010, has focused international attention on the crime rate, with organizers having to answer questions... AP via Yahooooooo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690417/posts#comment Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:56:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687288/posts What do Nelson Mandela, Michael Collins, Archbishop Makarios, Menachim Begin, Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Shamir, Eamon DeValera and Jomo Kenyatta have in common, apart from having being heads of state? As everybody knows, but few remember, they were all vilified as "terrorists" by the British or American authorities. Ronald Reagan branded Mandela's African National Congress a terrorist organization - and to be fair, it did commit some terrorist acts, while the ancestors of Likud blew up the King David Hotel, assassinated the highest British official in the Middle East during the war against the Nazis, and gunned down United Nations representative... Asia Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687288/posts#comment Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687143/posts CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Sen. Barack Obama started a two-week tour of Africa on Sunday with a visit to Nelson Mandela's former prison island, paying tribute to the "incredible courage, resilience and hopefulness" of the anti-apartheid movement. The only black member of the U.S. Senate and one of the Democratic Party's rising stars, Obama said the two-hour visit to Robben Island made him realize that everyday worries in the United States were "fairly trivial stuff compared to the very elemental, basic struggle" of Mandela and other former inmates. Obama's late father was a goat herder who went on to... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687143/posts#comment Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:11:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670961/posts The Irrelevant UN By Jenni Vinson Trejo January 4, 2005 On January 8, 1918 President Woodrow Wilson explained to the US House and Senate that the world had gotten smaller and that nations now affected each other so we needed to form a group of nations who agreed to work together. The world was embroiled in World War I. Wilson put forth fourteen points intended to serve as the basis for an alliance and world peace. Point 14 says: "A general association of nations should be formed on the basis of covenants designed to create mutual guarantees of the political... 1440 KEYS AM Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670961/posts#comment Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:29:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654732/posts JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Buried beneath a thick layer of dirt on a former farm in a northern Johannesburg suburb is the most famous gun in South African history. Or so a team of historians believe. For the past week, a bulldozer has been digging on the Liliesleaf farm in Rivonia in search of the Bulgarian pistol that former South African President Nelson Mandela hid weeks before his 1962 arrest by the nation's white rulers. The effort to find the gun -- which was largely forgotten through the darkest days of apartheid, the fall of white rule and establishment of democracy... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654732/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:24:18 GMT