as an African I find this very offensive

While the rest of the world find South Africans offensive

It shouldnt be but it is funny

I don't know...

If this was about Aboriginals and Australians, or Indians and the UK, half the forum would be climbing on their high horse, including you...you'd be saying something like:

'It is also very awful. I can't imagine how that might be funny'.

It's not about race, religion, colour, bigotry or prejudice though is it?
It's about simple satirical one liners following topical events as they have happened.
Could have happened anywhere & there would still have been an abundance of jokes.
The guys I work with at the fire shed have some of the sickest sense of humours imaginable. If you didn't laugh sometimes you'd cry.

so true.

Exactly.

What have you got against Nelson Mandela?

He's a terrorist, innit.

You obviously do GAF otherwise you wouldn't respond. The fact you have never heard of him is nothing to do with your lack of interest in sport...his story was a human story as well as a sporting one and was constantly in the news during the Olympics.

To kind of get back on topic......although some of the one liners have been gold!!......his 'stumps' as such are below the knee and he had his heel grafted onto them to make them hardy enough to walk on. He can walk quite ably on his stumps.
With regard to the shooting, his version is that he shot into the door whilst shouting (thus indicating to the police and media that this was the shouting and subsequent screaming that neighbors heard.) and it was while in a state of instant awakeness that he did not realise that his girlfriend was not next to him in the bed.
The problem with this case is going to be that it is a 'his word against a victims word' issue...and of course the victim is unable to give their side of events in this case.
I am kind of going along with some others that his privileged position and the money and legal resources at his family's disposal will prove hard to build a case against without any proof against him. It will take a very savvy prosecutor to dig deep to find a chink in the defence and the only way he will get convicted is if he admits to it.
Is he guilty...don't know. I think the SA legal system is flawed but its their system and people like Amazulu and others who have lived there extensively will know the likelihood of any conviction if its one man's word against supposition.

He was a terrorist,i HATE terrorists,esp saffer terrorists.

That's subject to personal opinion really.

I for one don't consider that man a terrorist. I think hes a wee legend.

Long live Madiba.

Actually I don't think he was ever called a Terrorist...Political Extremist yes but not terrorist.

When you're oppressed the odd burning car tyre around the neck of rival gang members is an act of kindness then?