Nelson Mandela Belonged To All } Now Dead

Nelson Mandela a man of the World because his ideas of freedom and non separatists governments affected his nation greatly and also the world because it inspired that idea. We in the USA have been in that process since our Declaration of Independence. You have writers that talk that all men are created equal but had slaves themselves. I like to believe that they knew what was coming and that manuscript was going to be the guide for a new nation. Slaves were given freedom and under Pres.Lyndon B.Johnson they obtained their full civil rights and rights to vote.
On Tuesday June 26th JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela's close family on Tuesday gathered to hear a sombre prayer wishing the anti-apartheid icon a "peaceful, perfect, end" as he lay in hospital in a critical condition with life seemingly slipping away.

Cape Town Archbishop Thabo Makgoba visited Pretoria's Mediclinic Heart Hospital to pray with wife Graca Machel "at this hard time of watching and waiting.”  

 

Now we have a black president that has far as most nations is concern that is the highest office in the world that that so far men can attain. Walter Mandela had something to do with that by opening the world’s white minds that a black man would be as good or as bad as any man. Walter Mandela went from Prisoner for fighting the white separatist government of South Africa, to President of that country.  

Mr. Mandela’s body has suffered so much physical and mental oppression that many including me are amazed he made it almost to his 90’s. Still the the end he had a clear mind, but his body could no longer support his massive heart, full of compassion and ideals of equality for all. Yes, he was pro gay human rights.  One of the first things that he did was to have same sex legal. A shame that was use as an excuse by the whites to kill black in which now even the black will not come to oppose. But he was firm that equality is not just for some. Equality for a human being is for all human beings. He was a gay human rights backer until the day he died.

In June 2004, aged 85 and amid failing health, Mandela announced that he was "retiring from retirement" and retreating from public life, remarking "Don't call me, I will call you.Although continuing to meet with close friends and family, the Foundation discouraged invitations for him to appear at public events and denied most interview requests. He retained some involvement in international affairs and encouraged Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to resign over growing human rights abuses in the country. When this proved ineffective, he spoke out publicly against Mugabe in 2007, asking him to step down "with residual respect and a modicum of dignity."^[That year, Mandela, Machel, and Desmond Tutu convened a group of world leaders in Johannesburg to contribute their wisdom and independent leadership to some of the world's toughest problems. Mandela announced the formation of this new group,The Elders, in a speech delivered on his 89th birthday.

Mandela with wife Graça Machel and Indian guru Sri Chinmoy

Mandela's 90th birthday was marked across the country on 18 July 2008, with the main celebrations held at Qunu,and a concert in his honor in Hyde Park, London. In a speech marking the event, Mandela called for the rich to help the poor across the world.Throughout Mbeki's presidency, Mandela continued to support the ANC, although usually overshadowed Mbeki at any public events that the two attended. Mandela was more at ease with Mbeki's later successor Jacob Zuma, although the Nelson Mandela Foundation were upset when his grandson, Chief Mandla Mandela, flew him out to the Eastern Cape to attend a pro-Zuma rally in the midst of a storm in 2009.

Since 2004, Mandela had successfully campaigned for South Africa to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup, declaring that there would be "few better gifts for us in the year" marking a decade since the fall of apartheid. Despite maintaining a low-profile during the event, Mandela made a rare public appearance during the closing ceremony, where he received a "rapturous reception". In February 2011, he was briefly hospitalised with a respiratory infection, attracting international attention, before being re-hospitalised for a lung infection and gallstone removal in in December 2012.After a successful medical procedure in early March 2013, his lung infection reoccurred and he was briefly hospitalised in Pretoria. On 8 June 2013, his lung infection worsened, and he was rehospitalized in Pretoria, reportedly in a serious condition.

Ideology of Mandela

Mandela was an African nationalist, an ideological position he held since joining the ANC, also being "a democrat, and a socialist". Although he presented himself in an autocratic manner in several speeches, Mandela was a devout believer in democracy and would abide by majority decisions even when deeply disagreeing with them.He held a conviction that "inclusivity, accountability and freedom of speech" were the fundamentals of democracy, and was driven by a belief in and human rights.

A democratic socialist, Mandela was "openly opposed to capitalism, private land-ownership and the power of big money".^]Influenced by Marxism, during the revolution Mandela advocated scientific socialism, although he denied being a communist during the Treason Trial.Biographer David James Smith thought this untrue, stating that Mandela "embraced communism and communists" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, though was a "fellow traveller" rather than a party member. In the 1955 Freedom Charter, which Mandela had helped create, it called for the nationalisation of banks, gold mines, and land, believing it necessary to ensure equal distribution of wealth. Despite these beliefs, Mandela nationalised nothing during his presidency, fearing that this would scare away foreign investors. This decision was in part influenced by the fall of the socialist states in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc during the early 1990s.

 

Nelson Mandela burning his pass book during the 1952 Defiance Campaign
 

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(Photos: South African History Online)

Adam Gonzalez, with historic dates from Wikipedia