What Mandela's racist opposition(like PJ) somehow doesn't seem to get, is that we hail Mandela because he renounced his previous violence. The man who left Robben Island was a very different man than the one who went in, and it is that man we admire.In the hope this is inkeeping with an RIP thread - Mandela did take part of a lot of activities that are repugnant, and in most circumstances would be wholeheartedly condemned by Western media/society. I think he was flawed and the nature of the ANC's origins always meant it was never going to be well suited to good governance.
But at the same time, he was a product of Apartheid South Africa. The white establishment reaped what they sowed - they wanted the benefits of cheap black labour, traditional black lands - and the resultant oppression that comes with subjugating a population in that way. Those were the conditions that created Mandela and his revolution - the good and the bad.
Still maintain that crying on the pitch should warrant a 3 match ban
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