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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Before Mandela became a saint he actually was someone who plotted violent actions against the SA government and a Marxist.[/quote]
You can't be serious! [/quote]
A lot of people on this thread need to read up on South African history.  Let's not over-dramatize on either side here.  [/quote]
Apartheid was evil.  That is not being overdramatic.  That is being factual.[/quote]
PP here who said people need to read up.  Calling apartheid evil is certainly not overdramatic.  But calling Mandela a "saint" in this context is mocking.  And a blanket statement calling him a Marxist in his early career is a stretch; I'd save that for Joe Slovo and other SACP members.  As for the "can't be serious" PP, they could at least acknowledge that the Mandela of the 1990s was not the same Mandela of Umkhonto we Sizwe.  Don't you think?[/quote]

Most of us in our 70s are not the same as we were in our 20s, whether we were members of MK or not.[/quote]

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