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MANDELA WORSHIP…AN ONGOING SERIES

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Whilst figures such as Lady Thatcher and Ronald Reagan have always attracted BBC opprobrium, Nelson Mandela has been one of their heroes, beyond criticism, a knight in shining armour. Did you catch this latest gushing tribute to the elderly Marxist? It’s not that I think it fair enough to discuss Mandela but the sort of starry-eyed hero worship continually served up by the BBC does not provide the full story. It might not suit the BBC but perhaps there are other aspects to his life that merit consideration so we get a balanced view of this man? 

 

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SAINT NELSON…

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Today is the day when the World Cup in South Africa kicks off. The BBC has gone into hype overdrive – and in that regard is no different from any other TV broadcaster. But I am already sick of the worship of Mandela and Tutu that has gone on before a ball has been kicked. I appreciate that these two figures are totemic for the political left and the opportunity was not going to be missed to praise them even more but not everyone holds them in high esteem. I think the BBC is deliberately embroiling politics into the sporting event (If you can call football “sport”) and advancing it’s own Nelson-worship. I also caught a BBC item yesterday with Hugh Maskela in which he claimed that blacks in South Africa was still being denied. By whom? By the ANC? No. Maskela was hinting at the race card and the BBC let him away with it.

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MANDELA WORSHIP…

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I am sure you will have encountered the Mandela worship on the BBC today. It is 20 years since Nelson Mandela was released from captivity and the excitement at the BBC has been palpable. However I believe the coverage has been very one dimensional and has stayed away from asking any of the tough questions lest the halo around Saint Nelson be dented. 20 years on, we have the corrupt ANC regime rather than the corrupt Apartheid regime. Yes, some of Mandela’s cronies have grown rich during this period but for the majority of South African people, there is still unrelenting poverty, widespread crime and rampant disease. How is this an improvement? Furthermore, I see the football loving Winnie Mandela is now fully rehabilitated and the BBC is again portraying this wicked woman in the “mother of the nation” mode it initially used before the unfortunate Stompie Seipei incident made that impossible. Can you imagine what the coverage of his death will be like? We’re all ANC now. (And to hell with the victims of their terrorism)

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