http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nelsonmandela/ en-us Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:46:16 GMT Focus Forum 15 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/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/2033844/posts Erroneously first reported to be the mansion of bruta tyrant Robert Mugabe, it is, in fact, the home of his COUSIN! Mugabe's mansion is even MORE opulent -- but has not yet been photographed (or maybe was but the photog wound up as crocodile chum in the nearest river). http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Zimbabwe/Harare/blog-219289.html As you stroll through this beautiful PALACE, be comforted that much of it -- as well as Robert's -- was paid for with YOUR "MONEY," sucked out of your pocket by the scum who run the UNITED NATIONS and the overeducated idiots who vote for and run the US FOREIGN... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033844/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:53:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029821/posts The men who pulled up in three white pickup trucks were looking for Patson Chipiro, head of the Zimbabwean opposition party in Mhondoro district. His wife, Dadirai, told them he was in Harare but would be back later in the day, and the men departed. An hour later they were back. They grabbed Mrs Chipiro and chopped off one of her hands and both her feet. Then they threw her into her hut, locked the door and threw a petrol bomb through the window. The killing last Friday – one of the most grotesque atrocities committed by Robert Mugabe’s regime... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029821/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:20:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940758/posts French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau is credited with the famous remark, "La guerre! C'est une chose trop grave pour la confier à des militaries" -- war is too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. The idea that Clemenceau was trying to project through these words is that experts are often incapable of seeing beyond their profession and understanding the greater domains of necessity. Here in Hawaii, we are facing a transportation infrastructure crisis of the highest degree of peril. I assert to every single man, woman, and child of these Hawaiian Islands that our future is too... Hawaii Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940758/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:09:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870462/posts JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - World famous opponent of South African apartheid, Nelson Mandela, celebrated his 89th birthday last Wednesday by announcing the formation of a Global council of elders, known simply as "The Elders."So far The Elders includes Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Li Zhaoxing, Muhammad Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Graca Machel, and, of course, Nelson Mandela.  The group of high-profile international leaders is intended to be an independent body of "wise" men and women that will use their combined experience to solve any of the host of problems currently... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870462/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jul 2007 22:28:42 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-chat/1590669/posts WORLD EXCLUSIVE Kate on coke at Mandela's Kate Moss ... snorted cocaine from dirty floor       By CLODAGH HARTLEY in Port Elizabeth, S AfricaTODAY The Sun blows the lid on the sleazy drug-fuelled world that held Kate Moss in a vice-like grip for TEN YEARS. The picture on Page One of  The Sun newspaper shows her in a hotel with cocaine chopped into four lines on the table. The supermodel, 32, is holding a rolled-up tube ready to snort the killer drug in another night of wild partying. We can reveal ‘Cocaine Kate’ even took it at the home... The Sun (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1590669/posts#comment Mon, 6 Mar 2006 03:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422877/posts For Immediate Release: June 14th, 2005 LEADING MEMBER OF the U.S.CONGRESS TO LEAD PROTEST AT EMBASSY OF BURMA PHOTO OPPORTUNITY, WASHINGTON, DC JUNE 17TH AT 10:00 AM   For More Information, Contact: Lynne Weil, (202) 225-6735 Office of Congressman Tom Lantos Jeremy Woodrum (202) 246-7924 US Campaign for Burma Tom Lantos, Top Democrat on International Relations Committee, To Deliver 6,000 Birthday Cards Demanding Release of World's Only Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Aung San Suu Kyi  (Washington, DC)  Tom Lantos (D-CA), the ranking member on the House International Relations Committee, will lead a protest in front of the Embassy... Lynne Weil, (202) 225-6735 Office of Congressman Tom Lantos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1422877/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:33:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413487/posts Palestinian security forces in Ramallah on Monday arrested a suspect in the murder of Samir Rantisi, a local journalist and spokesman for former PA Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo. Rantisi, 42, had for years urged Palestinians to endorse non-violent methods in their confrontation with Israel and was strongly opposed to suicide bombings. He was murdered early Monday morning while he was sleeping in his bedroom in the Sateh Marhaba neighborhood. A lone gunman who broke into his apartment in the Shkukani Building shot him twice in the head in front of his wife. The wife managed to identify the suspect,... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1413487/posts#comment Tue, 31 May 2005 03:10:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412068/posts A prominent Democratic Party pollster Thursday said the reason members of his party have lost major elections in recent years is because they have not "run with conviction." Stanley Greenberg, who currently heads his own research firm, previously conducted polling and offered advice to then-President Bill Clinton, then-Vice President Al Gore, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and South African President Nelson Mandela. Greenberg conceded that the biggest current weakness among Democratic candidates is that they "do not know what they stand for, they don't know their policy direction, they don't know their underlying values, they don't know who they fight... GOPUSA.COM, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1412068/posts#comment Sat, 28 May 2005 02:15:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405175/posts President Bush met with former South African President Nelson Mandela. Rob Portman was sworn in as United States Trade Representative. Some members of the WH press corps attempted to mug Scott McClellan and feed words into his mouth during the press briefing today, regarding the White House statement that the United States' image abroad had suffered irreparable damage by Newsweek's now retracted story about the Koran and Guantanamo Bay. Texas judge Priscilla Owen and California judge Janice Rogers Brown visited President Bush at the White House and then Senate Republicans at the Capitol as lawmakers moved toward a confrontation over... yahoo.com, whitehouse.gov, drudgereport.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405175/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 23:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945019/posts Here's an answer I haven't seen elsewhere to the phony "scandal" regarding Africa, yellowcake, and the forged documents gathered as part of the evidence.Freepers will recall that when the US advance captured the Salman Pak site during the war, the US forces came under criticism because they did not (because they could not for obvious reasons, its a multi-thousand acre site) fully protect the entire site. As a result, the Bush critics said, local Iraqis had looted unprotected areas and exposed themselves to radiation poisoning. Why? How? Here's why -- they found large quantities of plastic tubs filled with --... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/945019/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2003 22:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364151/posts President Bush has issued a statement on "Ten Years of Democracy in South Africa," conveniently ignoring the fact that South African President Thabo Mbeki is a Marxist who has surrounded himself with followers of radical Islam. The other curious omission is that while the president complimented "South Africa's commitment to progress at home and around the world," evidence is emerging that South Africa has played a role in nuclear weapons proliferation, including to Iran. The evidence is contained in a hot new book, Iran's Nuclear Option: Tehran's Quest for the Atom Bomb, by journalist Al Venter. Some people forget that... AIM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364151/posts#comment Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336341/posts Former South African President Nelson Mandela says poverty is equivalent to slavery and apartheid, and must be eliminated with the support of the world's richest nations. Mr. Mandela is in Britain at the government's invitation as part of Prime Minister Tony Blair's drive to push for poverty alleviation in developing countries, especially Africa. The former South African president spoke to several thousand people at a midday rally in London's Trafalgar Square, where he said poverty is a violation of fundamental human rights. "Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural," he said. "It is man-made and it can be overcome... VOA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336341/posts#comment Sat, 5 Feb 2005 01:12:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336537/posts Western nations should make reparations for enslaving and colonising Africans and finance a Marshall Plan-type fund for Africa, says US actor Danny Glover. "I believe in reparations for slavery and colonisation as well, in the shape of a Marshall Plan," Glover told the Associated Press on the sidelines of month-long celebrations in Ethiopia of the 60th anniversary of reggae legend Bob Marley who died in 1981. "Our basic attitude towards Africa is still one of the coloniser," said Glover, a UNICEF goodwill ambassador for the UN children's agency that has co-organised the celebrations with the Bob Marley Foundation. "The... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336537/posts#comment Sat, 5 Feb 2005 08:37:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332139/posts LONDON (AP) - Britain's first openly gay lawmaker revealed Sunday that he has been HIV positive for 17 years, saying he was inspired by Nelson Mandela to tell the public he had the virus that causes AIDS. Chris Smith, 53, the governing Labour party's former culture secretary, said he was responding to the former South African president's call earlier this month for more publicity about AIDS to fight the stigma attached to the disease. "What Nelson Mandela said very much struck a chord with me," Smith was quoted as saying in the Sunday Times newspaper. "He spoke about how nobody... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332139/posts#comment Sun, 30 Jan 2005 22:22:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315232/posts Mandela announces son died of AIDS 01-06-2005, 14h06 Nicolas Asfouri - (AFP/Pool/File) JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Former South African president Nelson Mandela said Thursday that his son Makgatho had died of AIDS. "We have called you today to announce that my son has died of AIDS," Mandela told reporters gathered Thursday at his Johannesburg home just hours after his only surviving son passed away. Makgatho Mandela, 54, had been in intensive care for the past weeks, but no details were released about his condition. Turkish Press.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1315232/posts#comment Thu, 6 Jan 2005 14:38:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308514/posts The U.S. is engaged in a bloody war in Iraq for the purpose of eliminating the remnants of a terrorist regime, foreign terrorists, and bringing democracy to Iraq and the region. It is a big gamble that has put radical Islam on the defensive around the world. But shocking evidence demonstrates that controversial former U.S. Marine and former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who now writes for the anti-American Arab "news" organization Al Jazeera, was involved in a controversial effort to stop the war by enlisting prominent personalities in a "peace" campaign. Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308514/posts#comment Sun, 26 Dec 2004 07:28:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/766391/posts <p>October 10, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton was showered with pricey gifts while he was in office from the leaders of Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, but he didn't disclose them because they were earmarked for his presidential library in Arkansas, a new report yesterday revealed.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/766391/posts#comment Thu, 10 Oct 2002 07:00:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173979/posts CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - Former President Nelson Mandela celebrated his 86th birthday quietly Sunday at his family home in Qunu in the Eastern Cape with his wife Graca Machel and family members. The low key celebration was in keeping with the Nobel Laureate's announcement in June this year that he would cut back on public appearances, a spokesman from the Nelson Mandela Foundation said. Mandela said he did not want to withdraw completely from public life but would be more selective about events he attended. He has maintained a hectic schedule since retirement from active politics in 1999.... bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173979/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:48:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082706/posts Tiger Woods is no Nelson Mandela! Tiger's father, Earl Woods, was recalling recently the day his son, Tiger, met South Africa's former president, Dr. Nelson Mandela: "it was the first time Tiger met a human being who was equal to him, who was as powerful as Tiger is." Hello!? Brother Earl, Tiger "equal to" Mandela? Nonsense. I've also met and seen Mandela. Tiger Woods can hit a golf ball, alright, but he probably does not know (or relatively do much) about the fact millions of kids of African heritage, White kids and, in fact, among those of his self-styled... usafricaonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082706/posts#comment Sat, 21 Feb 2004 16:30:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073903/posts EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, South Africa – At the scenic foot of a troubled continent of almost one billion people, among whom any good news is welcome, South Africa's 45 million inhabitants are building a uniquely bold venture in democracy. In many ways it is the boldest since the United States was founded. Ten years ago, this nation's liberated blacks voted freely for the first time. They stood eagerly under the sun in long serpentine lines that seemed to reach the horizon. Such photographs, taken on April 27, 1994, their day of independence, appear like trophies on the walls of government... The San Diego Union Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1073903/posts#comment Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:06:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051668/posts Satanists hack 46664 site December 12 2003 at 09:56PM The Independent On Saturday Nelson Mandela's 46664 Aids awareness campaign is synonymous with good intentions and positive messages. But web users eager to give a minute of their time to the fight against Aids may be in for a nasty surprise when they hit the site and antichrist symbols and degrading images of Christ appear. When a Cape Town web user, who did not want to be named, logged on to the site earlier this week to find out why the official 46664 T-shirts were sold only in the United Kingdom,... iol.co.za http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1051668/posts#comment Mon, 5 Jan 2004 06:14:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1021245/posts I'm having an argument with some liberals and the Internet is not going to be of much help, so I need someone who has a print source of Confucius quotes. The quote is: Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. There are a bunch of whacky liberals where I work saying that its a quote from Nelson Mandela. I'm trying to tell them that since ol' Nelson lived about 1500 years after Confucius did, it makes him a PLAGIARIST. The real problem is that when you search the interent there are abundant... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1021245/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2003 23:33:40 GMT