Claim: South African anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was on the U.S. terrorism watch list until 2008. In the 1970s, during Mandela’s imprisonment, the African National Congress (ANC), in which Mandela was a prominent leader, was designated a terrorist group by the white South African apartheid government. The atrocity is designed to terrorize blacks into ending all racial cooperation and to polarize South Africa as prelude to a final, climactic struggle for power. In defending their society and people, the South African Government has a right and responsibility to maintain order in the face of terrorists. Such repressive measures will bring South Africa neither peace nor security.

Source: Washington Post October 16, 2023 12:05 UTC