Celebrate the 90th birthday this week of one of history's greatest leaders, Nelson Mandela, with one of the fine films about his extraordinary perseverance, vision, courage, and leadership. The story of the massive social change he achieved without violence is profoundly moving and inspiring and one that all families should understand and discuss. Perhaps his greatest contribution is the notion of reconciliation and forgiveness rather than retribution and punishment, a lesson the world will need to recover from its current conflicts.
The documentary, Mandela: Son of Africa, Father of a Nation
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Thank you, Jeanett! I believe that is permitted. I am glad you are doing an assignment on this great leader.
I will not endorse another false image of history by Hollywood. This is more hype about a false impression that the South African government has been successful in maintianing a free economy and redistribution of wealth in the wake of apartheid. The result has been a marked increase in violent crime and a mass migration of whites to escape violence and a "robotic" life style as described but one expat. Mandela is hardly an expert on government or economies but he was an expert on oppression. And the G.E.A.R. program that the fanatsy of success is based on, may be the long term goal of Obama/Pelosi democrats. This is another Hollywood piece of propaganda in the great tradition of it's recent spate of unwatchable unrealistic telling of the war on terrorism, or absence of. Usisng a sports motif to justify or obscure the deeper cracks in the South African mess? They might as well have focused on the soccer game that stopped a war-Biafra, but genuine historians know how that ended.
Thanks for the comment! I think you are referring to the upcoming movie "Invictus" rather than this biopic about Mandela?
i dont know too much about nelson mandela but i'm using him as a hero for my french summative anyone know any useful tips??
Here's my tip: do your homework. Your life will be enriched by the time you spend learning about this extraordinary leader.
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