Mandela Rip

[NoMercy]

:(

[craft1948]

Was that directed at me Wharton?

[marval]

RIP

[ELVIS68]

I get what you mean craft ;o)

[craft1948]

Thanks Elvis..

[ummmm]

Not really the time though, is it? The man would barely be cold!

[craft1948]

Sorry ummmm but I don't understand why this outpouring of grief for the man. What did he do?

[ummmm]

I suppose you'd need to ask the black South Africans.

I know my white South African friend is devastated.

[craft1948]

Fair enough, at this stage I'll say no more.............

[Wharton]

craft1948 - If the cap fits.

ELVIS68 - ;o)? Do you see something funny here?

[Peter Pedant]

yeah I agree ummmm - his successors have not been showing much Madiba quality..... one saying you can cure AIDS with nettle soup
and the other supporting the arch democrat Mugabe and feeding a million of Mugabe's refugees.

and anyway would you like a politician like Bliar or Mr Brown announcing your own father's death - and trying to gain political plaudits or would you think it is a famly affair ?

[ummmm]

He was a leader, it would never be a family affair.

[Lie-in King]

RIP

[lady-janine]

R.I.P.

[stewey]

Could anyone here please explain to me, succinctly, what exactly this man did for the entire world in order to make his death so meaningfully significant? Is the incident resembling the death of a certain Princess?

[Word-Smith]

In Mandela the world has lost the last Great Statesman of this world.

He admitted to fallibility, stood up for what he believed in, even if it wasn't the popular view, and had that quality long absent in today's "politicians": Integrity.

Until the appearance of others in his mould it's all downhill from here.