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Original Post Date: 2004-05-10 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 5/10/2004 3:01:56 PM
S.Africa: Outrage at Peter Hitchens "Mandela is no Saint!"
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From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 5/10/2004 3:01:56 PM
S.Africa: Outrage at Peter Hitchens "Mandela is no Saint!"
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[Brilliant stuff. Finally, someone in England tells it like it is. Now in South Africa, Mandela is not just a Saint, he’s more like a God. I kid you not. That anyone DARES say this about him has caused tremendous outrage here already. I am so pleased that Peter Hitchens has done this documentary. I would love to get a copy of it. Maybe if this spreads around a bit, it will help to set people straight. Hitchens also rightly states that South Africa is becoming a more autocratic state and that Freedom of Speech is being eroded!! Finally, a journalist who is telling it like it is!! Jan] London – A British journalist sharply criticised former South African president Nelson Mandela on Monday, saying that he was a “fig leaf” for an authoritarian government and people should view him as a fallible human being, not a saint. Peter Hitchens, a columnist for the Mail On Sunday, told BBC radio that many critics of the country’s former apartheid regime had “elevated Nelson Mandela to the status of superhero and a sort of political secular saint”. “It doesn’t, sadly, I’m afraid, work, because he isn’t that good and he acts unfortunately as a fig leaf for an increasingly unpleasant and authoritarian regime which simply isn’t getting the criticism it deserves because of Mr Mandela’s image,” he said. Hitchens has made a documentary about the 86-year-old Nobel Prize winner – Mandela: Beneath The Halo – which airs on Monday night on Channel 4. He said that under President Thabo Mbeki, Mandela’s chosen successor, South Africa was becoming a one-party state where freedom of speech was being eroded because no one wanted to exercise it. Mbeki’s African National Congress last month won a landslide election victory that gave it a more than two-thirds majority in parliament and leadership of all nine provinces. Mandela, who emerged from 27 years in prison to help end apartheid, was elected South Africa’s first black president. “I don’t think anyone can take away from Nelson Mandela the fact that he endured what he did and that he called for reconciliation, but I think you shouldn’t assume that at the end it was like a fairytale where everybody lived happily ever after,” Hitchens said. “I do think people should examine him as a normal human being and as a politician rather than as some kind of secular saint,” the journalist said. – Sapa-AP Source: IOL |
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