It was 20 years ago today...........
Feb 11th 2010, 2:55 am
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It was 20 years ago today...........
............ that Nelson Mandela walked free.
Memories, thoughts, observations, etc, anyone? My mind is perplexingly blank on the day itself - can't recall much at all..........
Memories, thoughts, observations, etc, anyone? My mind is perplexingly blank on the day itself - can't recall much at all..........
Feb 11th 2010, 4:01 am
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
Then he wife commits the murder of Stompie Moeketsi
and gets fined
Feb 11th 2010, 7:41 am
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
only 1 thought.
20 yrs later they have Zuma..................
20 yrs later they have Zuma..................
Feb 11th 2010, 10:14 am
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
Not much to say, I think the situation in SA speaks for itself....
Feb 11th 2010, 1:45 pm
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
Aye, let's have apartheid back. That was a laugh-a-minute.
Feb 11th 2010, 5:12 pm
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Feb 11th 2010, 5:29 pm
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
Mandela was convicted of terrorism in 1963 and freely admitted at his trial, "I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation."
Feb 11th 2010, 5:36 pm
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
That old bomb-in-a-children's-clothes-shop trick always gets people's backs up..........
Feb 13th 2010, 1:06 pm
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
Sergeant Pepper taught his Band to Play......
Feb 23rd 2010, 2:50 pm
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Re: It was 20 years ago today...........
Sorry to resurrect this thread but I unearthed, quite by chance, the inestimable Jeremy Clarkson's stance (from a few years ago) on the proposal, discussed widely at the time, to put a statue of Mandela in Trafalgar Square:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...icle885289.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...icle885289.ece
