You may not like him, Stinky but he was arguably the moral conscience of the ANC - there's every chance that their undoubted excesses and inequities will only get worse without his restraining influence.
Personally, I see him as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century. Certainly, he supported armed resistance, but as always, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter: for me, he was resisting a truly evil system and therefore I would liken his 'terrorism' to the 'terrorism' of the various resistance fighters in the occupied territories during WWII. Certainly, Aparthied wasn't nearly as bad as the Nazi's facism, but it was very, very bad - bad enough to satisfy my definition of evil.
You guys need to read up on history you Americans and 1st worlders.
The NP won the election by a sliver when it sadly came into power.
A LOT of South Africans HATED the Apartheid system... and I am talking WHITE South Africans... not only the blacks...
A LOT did not want it... it is very simple... at least a hell of a lot of us anyway...
But the world always paints us in a very bad light... they are masters at doing this.
I don't hate him or dislike him at all.
It is not him actually.
I think I got my message across very badly though.
My bad.
I actually seriously seriously admire him.
He was the best hope we have ever had period... but there may be another some day... who knows? Time will tell.
He is most probably the only politician that has close to any worth to me in this never ending sea of dog turds.
I despise the rest.
Like I said.
It is not actually his fault the country is o so mega ****** up.
He did more than his best.
He could not decide who was going to take over... but I recall his hatred for Mbekhi - what a ******* ass hake that puss.
The country is screwed because of these people's screwed up culture.
They are violent.
I really mean it when they sacrifice goats...
This is not a joke at all... they "worship" the ancestors... I don't you think you 1st worlders understand when I talk about the "Tokoloshe"... this is not a joke...
And you have to hear the goat screaming for it's life before it's throat is cut open.
Disturbing.
They also hate gays... Zuma - our rapist president once said:
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"If I ever see any gay man in the streets - I will punch him!"
They are the ones that are intolerant - not us.
And you 1st worlders struggle to see why this system finally came about?
There are
2 worlds here... and they struggle to co-exist...
There should be 2 South Africas... not 1.