rudedough:

God can come kiss my a$$. God cannot do anything about the sufferings of Christians that he collects a 10% of their pay check but President Mandela liberated his people and gave them a better life.

So tell your God to sit his stealing a$$ somewhere cos Nelson Mandela is far greater than him and please don't derail this thread cos I have greater respect for Mandela than your God.

badmrkt: When I die I'll keep on living! He lives on!
Safarina wont had been better without your struggles.
Aparthied would had continued if not you!
Its a privilege you to be in my generation!
R I P pop!
RIP Hero!

JNdupu: I turned off the lights in my kitchen and stepped into my back garden. Looking up into the sky, I could make out an unusual number of stars in the normally light-polluted London night vista.

They were all unblinking, so I implored with all my senses tuned to the max ... "which one of you carries the spirit of our Baba Nelson? Abeg this poor African wants to say goodbye oh, show me a sign."

To the north east, one started blinking furiously. I thought it was one of those aircrafts normally criss-crossing that skyline as they approach or depart Heathrow but this one was not moving.

Oh boy, I raised my two fists towards that star and wished Baba Nelson safe journey. I thanked him for sharing the same stardust that created all Africans with my humble self. My grandma will have hot gbegiri soup waiting for him of that I'm sure.

When I finished, I'm at peace with myself because I know Nelson Mandela is at peace, suffers no more. I've never been surer of anything in my life ... well, apart from the fact I will be the subject of gossip when my watching 82 year old neighbor next sits down for tea with her other busy body friends that already think I'm an insane cookie into the dark arts.

Elliozy: Dude you're sick..What does religion has to do with the death of a Hero? Smh

obadiah777: i see you done finally lost whats left of your gaddem mind

onitshaigbo: [b] Mandela sold out the blacks of South Africa, and in this sense, sold out Africans everywhere.

Today, South Africa, unlike its neighbour Zimbabwe, is still dominated by the whites economically.

In affluent neighbourhoods of that country, black faces are the minority while the whites, who have no business being in that country, form the majority. All this, while millions of black South Africans live in shantytowns.

Tell me, did Mandela really liberate his country from the whites? Do you see China or Japan or even poor India being dominated by whites in their own countries?

Whites still have a stranglehold on the country's resources, corporations, and the profits reaped from them.

Mandela only managed to enrich his fellow ANC people, and neglected the rest of black South Africa.

Instead of seeing their terrible plight, black South Africans routinely target fellow Africans living in their midst with the utmost cruelty. All this because they are scarred psychologically from century of white oppression.

Mandela will never be a hero in my eyes. Mandela isn't fit to polish the shoes of Robert Mugabe.[/b]

rudedough:

Well I see you're bent on derailing this thread. Let me give you something to work on.

List 1 thing only that your God has done for mankind. Please don't refer me to the bible, I want you to point it out in reality.

And I will show you 1000 things Mandela has done for South Africa.

obadiah777: God created Mandela. that trumps whatever you can come up with about Mandela

daz_york:

Hate this message all you want, but it is the truth. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a hero only to those who do not know the full story.
I always say that if you base your opinions on what you have been told by the media, you are almost certainly incorrect.
Mandela's deal with the white settlers guaranteed them the best of everything and did zero for South Africans. Today, a South African has to try to make it in the city because he has no ancestral land to return to and farm - all the land is owned by white thieves. Imagine if you lost your livelihood in Lagos and you have nowhere to return to because your ancestral home and land in Abia or Osun has been stolen by foreigners, and your government does not recognise you as the owner of that land. You are an immigrant in your own country. This is the reality for Blacks in South Africa - except for less than 2 million in the cities who are middle class, the rest are desperately poor, landless, traumatised people packed into ghettoes like Soweto.
This is why they resent you as an African going there to do business - because you have somewhere to go home to, they don't. There were also freedom fighters from the ANC imprisoned along with him who are still in prison now, designated as "terrorists", their crime being to fight for freedom in their own land. Why are they still in prison if the cause they went to prison for is what has won?
Nelson Mandela had the unique opportunity to make things right and he chose to go and dine with the white crooks instead of helping his own. Isn't this what we hate our own leaders for over here?
Why is his case different?
Because CNN and BBC told you that he is a Very Good And Exemplary African Leader?
Because Hollywood released 'Invictus' with Morgan Freeman?

One day you all will have to understand the need to think for yourself.

gothrones:
God also created Hitler.