Who is this 'Mandela'
Prior to Friday 2nd February 1990, that infamous day when the traitor F.W. de Klerk announced his total betrayal and sell-out of the South African nation, very few people in South Africa itself had ever heard of the name of the odious Nelson Mandela.
In the days which were to follow, however, his name was rarely out of the headlines, so that in a short period of time he was transformed from an obscure convicted terrorist into some sort form of a "celebrity", so that today - incredibly - he has even been imposed as "State President". (This article was originally written in 1997 - Ed).
Investigations into this Mandela have shown that he was born into a minor Xhosa princely family in the Transkei, who sent him to the bantu University of Fort Hare.
There he proved to be an academic failure and failed to graduate. He then gravitated to the gold mines of the Rand where he gained a reputation for laziness and incompetence, which led to frequent disciplinary action being taken against him. This led him to develop a lifelong grudge against White society and the capitalist system. Through family connections he managed to obtain employment as an office junior with a firm of attorneys who specialised in defending Blacks in labour disputes. Not surprisingly this legal practice was dominated by card-carrying Communists.
The South African Communist Party (SACP) was then forging a common front with the African National Congress (ANC). Under the influence of the SACP and Mandela's authoritarian Xhosa background the ANC was turned into a would-be terrorist organisation. In this aim, thankfully, they proved a total failure.
An attempted plot to stage a Black uprising and take-over of the country in 1960 resulted in a "Keystone Cops" type farce, and was quickly rumbled by the authorities. The worst act of terrorism enacted by the ANC at this time was the bombing of the Johannesburg Railway Station, in which many innocent civilians were killed or badly maimed, and for which a White-renegade ANC member was subsequently caught and justly hanged. In 1963, however, Mandela and a group of ANC cronies (mainly White or Indian misfits) were caught red-handed with enough arms and explosives to blow up half of Johannesburg. So pathetic were their plans and structure, however, that it was not considered necessary to put them "six foot under" as they deserved (which would undoubtedly have spared South Africa its present nightmare), but instead were merely sentenced to life imprisonment . Here Mandela should have rotted until nature took its natural course, but alas de Klerk decided to make a sick celebrity out of him.
Mandela can in no way be regarded as a "political prisoner" or a "conciliator" therefore; he is a would-be Gerry Adams!
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