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Johannesburg – Former president Nelson Mandela was not spared in the swathe of revelations emerging from thousands of leaked US diplomatic cables, reports said on Monday.
Cables that had yet to be released would reveal the depth of Mandela’s opposition to the war in Iraq, local media reported.
Mandela considered then US president George W Bush was incapable of thinking correctly and believed that Bush ignored calls by the United Nations for restraint in Iraq because the UN’s then secretary general, Kofi Annan, was black, the cables are expected to show. See liberals? Mandela is a typical “Dat bees raysess ” black.
Other cables still to be released, meanwhile, would also show Mandela as being on the receiving end of criticism.
The US embassy in Pretoria admitted it had approached the government to warn it in advance about the messages, which reportedly including embarrassing criticism by the US of the anti-apartheid icon.
Furious
The first batch of leaked cables showed how Mandela was shot down by his ANC party when he expressed a desire to meet ex-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher shortly after his release from prison in 1990.
Mandela had wanted to explain why the ANC had opposed Thatcher’s policy of “constructive engagement” with the apartheid regime, but the ANC opposed the meeting, leaving Mandela “furious”.
The cables also contained embarrassing revelations about how both South Africa and the US view Zimbabwe’s leaders.
“The crazy old man”, is how International Relations Minister Maite Nkoane Mashabane is said to refer to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe – a remark that was likely to cause a stir in Harare given that South Africa is overseeing the implementation of Zimbabwe’s power-sharing agreement.
The cables also expose Washington’s doubts about the leadership of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
While the man who has led democratic opposition to Mugabe for the past decade was “the indispensable element for opposition success” he risked becoming “possibly an albatross around their necks once in power”, the then US ambassador to Zimbabwe wrote in 2007.
Wikileaks – Files of Nelson Mandela prison release talk
The massive wikileaks files was released last night but so far only 220 out of more than 250 000 files were released. What the holdup is no one knows but it sure is going to reveal some interesting things about history and maybe about South Africa.
One of the 220 files released speaks of Nelson Mandela being sure that he was going to be set free along with other prisoners.
At one part of the document it also says that Mandela told visitors “He has a good opinion of De Klerk as a sincere individual even though he regards him as still the leader of the national party and not more than that.”
The document also speaks of Essa Moosa that spoke with Mandela where Mandela talks about his release from prison, the unbanning of the ANC and the lifting of the state of emergency.
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