From the start of his presidency, in May 1994, Nelson Mandela refrained from publicly condemning Abacha’s actions. General Sani Abacha seized power in Nigeria in a military coup in November 1993. The South African Department of Defence’s Strategic Defence Acquisition purchased a slew of shiny new weapons, including frigates, submarines, corvettes, light utility helicopters, fighter jet trainers and advanced light fighter aircraft.īelow are some of the purchases made, presumably to keep the expansionist intentions of Madagascar at bay…ĭespite being synonymous with freedom and democracy, Mandela was never afraid to glad hand the thugs and tyrants of the international arena. Not content with jets, in 1999 a US$4.8 billion (R30 billion in 1999 rands) purchase of weaponry was finalised, which has been subject to allegations of corruption. Clearly, the all-powerful air armadas of Botswana weighed heavily on the minds of South African leaders… R388 million (about US$65 million) per plane. Mandela’s government announced in November 1998 that it intended to purchase 28 BAE/SAAB JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft from Sweden at a cost of R10.875 billion, i.e. Deputy Minister of Defence Ronnie Kasrils said in 1995 that the government’s planned cuts in defence spending could also result in the loss of as many as 90,000 jobs in defence-related industries. Yet once in office, even Mandela’s government slipped into the custom of putting national corporatism, power and prestige above its people. Inheriting a country with criminally deep socio-ecnomic problems, one might expect resources to be poured into redressing the imbalances of apartheid. Tellingly, not only did Mandela refuse to renounce violence, Amnesty refused to take his case stating “ movement recorded that it could not give the name of ‘Prisoner of Conscience’ to anyone associated with violence, even though as in ‘conventional warfare’ a degree of restraint may be exercised.”Īs President he bought a lot of military hardware
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Pretoria Sterland movie complex 16 April 1988 – limpet mine killed ANC terrorist M O Maponya instead Durban Pick ‘n Pay shopping complex, 1 September 1986 Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court, 17 March 1988 Amanzimtoti Shopping complex KZN, 23 December 1985 Many innocent people, including women and children, were killed by Nelson Mandela’s MK terrorists. At his trial, he had pleaded guilty to 156 acts of public violence including mobilising terrorist bombing campaigns, which planted bombs in public places, including the Johannesburg railway station. Nelson Mandela was the head of UmKhonto we Sizwe, (MK), the terrorist wing of the ANC and South African Communist Party. He signed off on the deaths of innocent people, lots of them But get past the halo we’ve placed on him without his permission, and Nelson Mandela had more than a few flaws which deserve attention. If there is any international leader on whom we can universally heap praise it is surely he. The image of Nelson Mandela as a selfless, humble, freedom fighter turned cheerful, kindly old man, is well established in the West. The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle was not the saint we want him to be.