RIP Nelson Mandela

[The Truth]

RIP

 

[Thunder Bolt]

A true statesman.

 

[Boys 9d]

R I P. A great hero for me.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

A total and absolute inspiration. RIP

 

[Eggmundo]

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RIP

 

[The Modfather]

What an inspirational man. RIP.

 

[Biscuit]

Very sad news indeed, RIP.

 

[Meade's Ball]

RIP

 

[Publius Ovidius]

Having lived through 4 years of the apartheid in south Africa from 1966 to 1970, although very young, I witnessed the regime at close quarters.

We had a chap called Theo who used to clean our parque floors...my father struck up a friendship with him and used to lend him dad's engineering books, which he read. One evening dad invited him in to discuss the books and he was very nervous and only lasted in the flat around 30 minutes. Next morning about 6 o'clock, there was a knock on the door and my dad was carted off to the local police station which he returned badly shaken up having being threatened by the police. He was told that what he had done was against the law and if he didn't live under their rules, he can " **** off back home". We never saw theo again.

This is what Mandela stood against, but he preached peace and reconciliation with these people. A remarkable man!

He was a great man and the world is a poorer place for his death.

RIP TaTa

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Rest In Power Mandela

 

[LamieRobertson]

Having lived through 4 years of the apartheid in south Africa from 1966 to 1970, although very young, I witnessed the regime at close quarters.

We had a chap called Theo who used to clean our parque floors...my father struck up a friendship with him and used to lend him dad's engineering books, which he read. One evening dad invited him in to discuss the books and he was very nervous and only lasted in the flat around 30 minutes. Next morning about 6 o'clock, there was a knock on the door and my dad was carted off to the local police station which he returned badly shaken up having being threatened by the police. He was told that what he had done was against the law and if he didn't live under their rules, he can " **** off back home". We never saw theo again.

This is what Mandela stood against, but he preached peace and reconciliation with these people. A remarkable man!

He was a great man and the world is a poorer place for his death.

RIP dada.

Interesting story thanks for sharing

 

[Barrel of Fun]

The colours of ones skin still dictates how you will be treated. That's a sad fact.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite".

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Having lived through 4 years of the apartheid in south Africa from 1966 to 1970, although very young, I witnessed the regime at close quarters.

We had a chap called Theo who used to clean our parque floors...my father struck up a friendship with him and used to lend him dad's engineering books, which he read. One evening dad invited him in to discuss the books and he was very nervous and only lasted in the flat around 30 minutes. Next morning about 6 o'clock, there was a knock on the door and my dad was carted off to the local police station which he returned badly shaken up having being threatened by the police. He was told that what he had done was against the law and if he didn't live under their rules, he can " **** off back home". We never saw theo again.

This is what Mandela stood against, but he preached peace and reconciliation with these people. A remarkable man!

He was a great man and the world is a poorer place for his death.

RIP TaTa

That's so heartbreaking and moving.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

RIP to a humble and inspiring colossus of a man.

I visited Soweto 10 years ago and saw where Nelson, Winnie and Desmond Tutu used to live prior to NM's incarceration. It was still a dreadful place where the benefits of the end of apartheid had yet to reach. I fear that Mandela's passing will be the powder keg which re-ignites old scores which could not be settled while he was alive. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[Hamilton]

There are moments in life when you stop and think. Mandela's death has had that effect on me. It's bought back huge memories of all the news reports of the struggle and the wasted years as South Africans struggled with apartheid.

What a great man he was. What an example to us all.

 

[Questions]

RIP Madiba. A great man,a generous unembitered true hero of the African people.

 

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

The colours of ones skin still dictates how you will be treated. That's a sad fact.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite".

That is a lovely and inspirational quote.
Rest in peace Nelson Mandela, a true legend

 

[Blackadder]

Top Man.

Just like Martin Luther King, people will still be talking about him, and his achievements, in 50 years time.

Wasn't there a thread about Kennedy on similar lines a week ago? Well NM fits the bill.

 

[brakespear]

RIP Nelson.

 

[The Large One]

A giant.

RIP.