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US government considered Nelson Mandela a terrorist until 2008.

by yeleti on 12/11/13, 12:40 PM with 1 comments

  • by dingaling on 12/11/13, 2:02 PM

    Err, yes. Not really news.

    The UK Government also regarded the ANC as a terrorist organisation, given its fathership of the MK which had a close relationship with ZAPU through the 1970s.

    But behind the scenes successive UK Governments negotiated between the ANC and the SA Governments. That was the nature of the times; one thing in public and another in private, just like in Northern Ireland.

    As an odd aside, the SADF prized the Swedish-supplied rations that were supplied to ANC and SWAPO; Sweden covertly supported those groups from the early 1970s.