RIP Nelson Mandela

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05 Dec 2013, 5:03 pm

The man who was the George Washington and Abraham Lincoln of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, has just passed away after the antibiotics meant to fight a respiratory virus had been rejected by his body. He has gone to his just reward.

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05 Dec 2013, 5:08 pm

I seen a friend post a message on FB saying he was dead, I took it as a false rumor as it is Facebook, I decided to turn on the TV and switch to the news, as I seen he was indeed dead I was hit with such shock I just fell to me bed and dropped the remote.

May his memory live on in the freedom of Democracy.

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05 Dec 2013, 5:12 pm

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05 Dec 2013, 5:17 pm

His name will live on in perpetuity. I'm proud that my home city of Glasgow was one of the first to honour him,renaming the square in which stood the then apartheid government's South African consulate 'Nelson Mandela Square'

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05 Dec 2013, 5:38 pm

RIP to a great man and a greater world leader. His death is sad, but not surprising, as his health took a turn for the worse several years back.

Take care, Nelson Mandela. Your contributions to the world will live on forever.

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05 Dec 2013, 5:52 pm

Nelson Mandela is dead at age 95.

He had a very good run.

He prevent his country from turning into a racially motivated slaughterhouse and for that he will be and should be remembered for a blessing.

R.I.P. Nelson Mandela. I hope your nation follows your heart.

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05 Dec 2013, 5:53 pm

equestriatola wrote:

He had a good run and he left a good heritage. He will be remembered for a blessikng.

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05 Dec 2013, 6:17 pm

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I really hope a major street, highway, or other public space or thoroughfare in our state is renamed after Mandela. Then we can hear his name every day of our lives.

He is arguably the greatest human to have lived in the 20th century.

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05 Dec 2013, 6:20 pm

MaxE wrote:

pluto wrote:

At the very least, he's in the top ten.

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05 Dec 2013, 6:32 pm

Please the man did some good but was not on a level of either Washington or Lincoln. For a contemporary, he associated with some very evil people and his wife was/is a monster. I'd say he was a glorious patsy, used by others who tried to do the right thing all his life. He was a good man, not a great man.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu did far more great things, including saving a man personally from being "necklaced".

His wife Winnie was a supporter of [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing[/u]Necklacing[/url], you know the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with petrol, around a victim's chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process.

In 2008 the Practice of Necklacing returned to South Africa. He was a good man, like Jimmy Carter...but neither were competent. That said, he will be missed worldwide, and will be mourned. Let's not deify him though.

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05 Dec 2013, 6:40 pm

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He became the point man for the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa. That's pretty important. And he divorced his haradon of a wife, Winnie, as I recall.

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05 Dec 2013, 7:04 pm

Nelson Mandela, may you rest in peace.

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