AutisticMillionaire wrote:
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.
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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