I rarely pay attention to what is going on around me in the outside world. but I am so sad to hear of the passing of nelson mandela. we have so few real hero's amongst us anymore.
a quiet man, a peaceful man, a forgiving man who spent his life to heal a nation.
such a loss.
Hi Suzanne. I have never seen anything written about "necklacing" associated with Nelson Mandela. I have never seen anything associated with Nelson Mandela (not his wife) and criminal activiites. In regards to Mandela being on a terrorist watch list, there are many people who are clearly not terrorist who are on that watch list. That watch list has little meaning to me personally. I won’t get into the politics of what a terrorist is as I believe we all have very different definitions based on our world views. From my perspective, I would hope I had the same courage and guts as Mandela and not negotiate with a government that clearly were unjust, cruel and just plain wrong in the way the treated non white people. From my perspective, Mandela took a stand for his people and the world by remaining in jail rather than negotiating with a criminal government. I believe the government that put Mandela in jail were the real terrorists. I also believe this is a topic we both must agree to disagree on Suzanne as I think we both come from this from opposite view points based on who we are as people. I suspect we will probably never understand each others view point on some one like Mandela. But we can both support a wonderful organization such as SAINTS.