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Bbc Going Overboard On Nelson Mandela
Anyone agree that the BBC's saturation coverage of Nelson Mandela's life and death a bit much? How many more gushing people do they need to interview?
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ANC vitims ..mostly civilians
what did he do if anything to stop them perpertrating these murders ?
1981 – 2 car bombs at Durban showrooms
1983 – Church Street Bomb (killed 19, wounded 217)
1984 – Durban car bomb (killed 5, wounded 27)
1985-1987 – At least 150 landmines on farm roads (killed 125)
1985 – Amanzimtoti Sanlam shopping centre bomb Dec 23 (killed 2 white women and 3 white children)
1986 – Magoo’s Bar bomb (killed 3, wounded 69)
1986 – Newcastle Court bomb (wounded 24)
1987 – Johannesburg Court bomb (killed 3, wounded 10)
1987 – Wits command centre car bomb (killed 1, wounded 68)
1988 – Johannesburg video arcade (killed 1 unborn baby, wounded 10)
1988 – Roodepoort bank bomb (killed 4, wounded 18)
1988 – Pretoria Police housing unit, 2 bombs (wounded 3)
1988 – Magistrate’s Court bomb (killed 3)
1988 – Benoni Wimpy Bar bomb (killed 1, wounded 56)
1988 – Witbank shopping centre bomb (killed 2, wounded 42)
1988 – Ellis Park Rugby Stadium car bomb (killed 2, wounded 37)
Late 1980s – numerous Wimpy Restaurant bombs (killed many, wounded many)
what did he do if anything to stop them perpertrating these murders ?
1981 – 2 car bombs at Durban showrooms
1983 – Church Street Bomb (killed 19, wounded 217)
1984 – Durban car bomb (killed 5, wounded 27)
1985-1987 – At least 150 landmines on farm roads (killed 125)
1985 – Amanzimtoti Sanlam shopping centre bomb Dec 23 (killed 2 white women and 3 white children)
1986 – Magoo’s Bar bomb (killed 3, wounded 69)
1986 – Newcastle Court bomb (wounded 24)
1987 – Johannesburg Court bomb (killed 3, wounded 10)
1987 – Wits command centre car bomb (killed 1, wounded 68)
1988 – Johannesburg video arcade (killed 1 unborn baby, wounded 10)
1988 – Roodepoort bank bomb (killed 4, wounded 18)
1988 – Pretoria Police housing unit, 2 bombs (wounded 3)
1988 – Magistrate’s Court bomb (killed 3)
1988 – Benoni Wimpy Bar bomb (killed 1, wounded 56)
1988 – Witbank shopping centre bomb (killed 2, wounded 42)
1988 – Ellis Park Rugby Stadium car bomb (killed 2, wounded 37)
Late 1980s – numerous Wimpy Restaurant bombs (killed many, wounded many)
yes we have a week of this
if you want to email the Beeb and tell them to show someone else - Mrs Brown perhaps then try this:
[email protected];
they are amenable to pressure.
I mercilessly ridiculed their gomless interviews outside the S A high commission/embassy
we were invited to contemplate the pavement outside on which He had walked...I thought the hackette was gonna kiss it at one point, murmuring Nelson Nelson...
if you want to email the Beeb and tell them to show someone else - Mrs Brown perhaps then try this:
[email protected];
they are amenable to pressure.
I mercilessly ridiculed their gomless interviews outside the S A high commission/embassy
we were invited to contemplate the pavement outside on which He had walked...I thought the hackette was gonna kiss it at one point, murmuring Nelson Nelson...
Brenden - taking your q seriously... they cant He wasnt Roman but a Methodist.
Takes me back to WIndsor when Diana had died and a member of the public warbled: was she a Saint ? and the Dean of WIndsor - for it was he - snapped after a gap, " No we havent made saints for 500 y. and she was alive and not Roman Catholic " ' and then noticing the microphone..." but she was very good and we will remember her for a long time.... "
Takes me back to WIndsor when Diana had died and a member of the public warbled: was she a Saint ? and the Dean of WIndsor - for it was he - snapped after a gap, " No we havent made saints for 500 y. and she was alive and not Roman Catholic " ' and then noticing the microphone..." but she was very good and we will remember her for a long time.... "
When you hear someone like Pik Botha humbly reflecting on how he and his ilk were "blind to the injustices of apartheid" and you know that that noble admission is probably inspired or at least made easier by the personality and stature of Nelson Mandela then it's plain we're dealing with someone very special.
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