Nelson Mandela on the Cuban revolution

"Long live the Cuban Revolution. Long live comrade Fidel Castro... Cuban internationalists have done so much for African independence, freedom, and justice. We admire the sacrifices of the Cuban people in maintaining their independence and sovereignty in the face of a vicious imperialist campaign designed to destroy the advances of the Cuban revolution. We too want to control our destiny... There can be no surrender. It is a case of freedom or death. The Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration to all freedom-loving people." - Nelson Mandela

"I went to Cuba in July 1991, and I drove through the streets with Fidel Castro. There were a great deal of cheers. And I also waved back believing that these cheers were for me. Fidel was very humble; he smiled but he never said a word. But when I reached the square where I had to make some remarks to the crowd, then I realized that these cheers were not meant for me, they were meant for Fidel Castro. Because everybody forgot about me, and was really aroused by Fidel Castro. Then I realized that here was a man of the masses."
- Nelson Mandela

 

Nelson Mandela, the hero of Africa and the hero of majority rule over the racist White South African minority, refused to welcome George Bush when he visited South Africa.


Because Republican administrations, even more than Democrat administrations, had done everything in their power to perpetuate the rule of their White South African allies.

All this while the African National Congress (ANC) was outlawed in South Africa, and its leader Nelson Mandela imprisoned for over 20yrs.

The Reagan/Bush administration had vetoed the 'Comprehensive Anti-Aparteid Act of 1986'.

It took a Democratic Congress to overide the veto.

Revolutionary Cuba, on the other hand, supported the ANC.

And when the Republican Secretary of State Henry Kissinger ordered covert CIA intervention in Angola on behalf of the UNITA, Cuba countered it with overt military support for the MPLA.

When the White South African army also intervened, they were defeated by the Cubans.

This forced the White powers to concede the freedom of Black Namibia in exchange for the withdraw of Cuban forces.

So unlike when George Bush visited South Africa, when Fidel Castro visited, after South Africa's liberation from White racist rule, he was welcomed like a hero by the now free Nelson Mandela.

 

You know what a necklace is?

 

It's when you put a tire around someone's shoulders and fill it up with gasoline or kerosene and light it.
It's what some of mandela's supporters in South Africa did.
Nobody's a saint, and every movement has it's crazies.

 

Eugene, I say this in full consideration of all of your posts.

You are a moron.

 

Well I'am not suprised by Mandela's comments.


Several post-colonial African leaders were pro Socialism/Marxism,even though they didn't do much of nothing to develop their economies and Africa as a whole after independence. Africans are starting to move towards market reforms nowdays. Some of the Marxist post-colonial African leaders were just as bad and corrupt as those who weren't.

 

Thats pretty cool.
So those are real quotes to.
Peace

 

South Africa went down the crapper after Mandela came into power.

 

^not even going to dignify that with a full response.

 

sorry but what do you mean?
Peace

 

What I meant to say was South Africa went from a jack booted thug goverment to another jack booted thug goverment. Check out the crime statistics they have now plus the usual corruption.