Mandela memorial sign interpreter 'has schizophrenia'

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Sethoo 10 years ago

Madiba will cry in his grave for leading these blacks to freedom,look at what they are doing during his funeral contracting crooks to speak to the deaf.Madiba should worry the other blacks did the same to Nkrumah.

Madiba will cry in his grave for leading these blacks to freedom,look at what they are doing during his funeral contracting crooks to speak to the deaf.Madiba should worry the other blacks did the same to Nkrumah.
Vuvuzela 10 years ago

He has no schizophrenia. This insulting spin is yet again another crazy error by the ANC to wipe with the back of hands the costly error of creating a melodrama by introducing a guy who knows nothing. This is a poor attempt a ...
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He has no schizophrenia. This insulting spin is yet again another crazy error by the ANC to wipe with the back of hands the costly error of creating a melodrama by introducing a guy who knows nothing. This is a poor attempt at concealment of facts.

For a fact, someone in the party's security detail must have pocketed cash to introduce him. But the guy himself is so stupid to think he would get away with lies in a situation where the whole world is present. What was he thinking?

Finally this has not been the first time as there were complaints when he surfaced for the first time some time ago.

Africa has never ceased to stun.
VOLUNTORY CONTRIBUTOR. 10 years ago

A PIECE ABOUT MADIBA NELSON MANDELA:

It takes Africa finest leader like Mandela Nelson to respect pigs like Botha and Dick Chenney.His type of leader cannot be found even in the so call civilized society who prefer to modi ...
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A PIECE ABOUT MADIBA NELSON MANDELA:

It takes Africa finest leader like Mandela Nelson to respect pigs like Botha and Dick Chenney.His type of leader cannot be found even in the so call civilized society who prefer to modify God's creations for their interest first.How many 43rd presidents are on earth today? What is the 43 of 7943 gunston woods place, lorton, Va address?What about 7915 gunston woods place, lorton, va with parking space 43 ? since they are using vehicles and parking lots for their religion.
wrote: Osei Afriyie

Is there any single word in the dictionary to describe the overall actions,decisions and believe of NELSON MANDELA? Rather than SALVATION. Out of his reconciliation, Mandela brought Unity to both black and white in his country, thus saving the nation from an open and all out bloodsheds. Salvation when embrace properly promote peace and harmony. Now, who is Mandela according to the bible? Could he be the campanion of Christ Jesus, therefore the true black sheep? What about MLK, who predicted future? and has holiday in his name as Christ Jesus has holiday in his name. Don't forget, Revelation 14 is the structure of the Kingdom of God, with the alpha and omega lamp. A lamp is not necessary a child like kid. Jesus Christ was 30years old when he became a lamp, likewise Isaac was quite old to become the lamb of Abraham.

Mandela's story is similar to Daniel of Babylon of the old testament, as well as Joseph of Egypt. Imprison wrongfully, then came out of prison to be a governor or ruler promoting salvation for a whole groups of people in unity, peace but glory to himself. His death is giving unisome to the globe at a stadium;Lions,tigers, snakes and the beast of the seas are together, shaking hands and laughing together as if they are not enemies. You see what the USA was doing was a total LIE to coverup WHO IS WHO.
william 10 years ago

Because there is no way of proving he is telling the truth or lieing unless you successfully use a lie detector or interrogate him under hypnosis!!!But as you said it is insulting!!He could have been relieved!

Because there is no way of proving he is telling the truth or lieing unless you successfully use a lie detector or interrogate him under hypnosis!!!But as you said it is insulting!!He could have been relieved!
NAKED 10 years ago

Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch ...
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Mali at first glance seems a most unlikely place for the NATO powers, led by a neo-colonialist French government of Socialist President Francois Hollande (and quietly backed to the hilt by the Obama Administration), to launch what is being called by some a new Thirty Years’ War Against Terrorism.

Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by Algeria to its north, Mauritania to its west, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Niger to its southern part. People I know who have spent time there before the recent US-led efforts at destabilization called it one of the most peaceful and beautiful places on earth, the home of Timbuktu. Its people are some ninety percent Muslim of varying persuasions. It has a rural subsistence agriculture and adult illiteracy of nearly 50%. Yet this country is suddenly the center of a new global “war on terror.”

On January 20 Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron announced his country’s curious resolve to dedicate itself to deal with “the terrorism threat” in Mali and north Africa. Cameron declared, “It will require a response that is about years, even decades, rather than months, and it requires a response that…has an absolutely iron resolve…” [1] Britain in its colonial heyday never had a stake in Mali. Until it won independence in 1960, Mali was a French colony.

On January 11, after more than a year of behind-the-scenes pressure on the neighboring Algeria to get them entangled in an invasion of its neighbor Mali, Hollande decided to make a direct French military intervention with US backing. His government launched air strikes in the rebel-held north of Mali against a fanatical Salafist band of jihadist cutthroats calling itself Al-Qaeda in the Islamic-Mahgreb (AQIM). The pretext for the seemingly swift French action was a military move by a tiny group of Islamic Jihadists of the Tuareg people, Asnar Dine, affiliated with the larger AQIM. On January 10 Asnar Dine – backed by other Islamist groups – attacked the southern town of Konna. That marked the first time since the Tuareg rebellion in early 2012 that Jihadist rebels moved out of traditional Tuareg territory in the northern desert to spread Islamic law to the south of Mali.

As French journalist Thierry Meyssan noted, French forces were remarkably well prepared: “The transitional President, Dioncounda Traore, declared a state of emergency and called to France for help. Paris intervened within hours to prevent the fall of the capital, Bamako. Far-sightedly, the Elysée had already pre-positioned in Mali troops from the 1st Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (“the Colonials”) and the 13th Parachute Dragoon Regiment, helicopters from the COS (Special Operations Command), three Mirage 2000D’s, two Mirage F-1’s, three C135’s, a C130 Hercules and a C160 Transall.” [2] What a convenient coincidence.

By January 21 US Air Force transport planes began delivering hundreds of French elite soldiers and military equipment to Mali, ostensibly to roll back what we were told was an out-of-control terrorist advance south towards the Mali capital. [3] French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told media the number of its ‘boots on the ground’ in Mali had reached 2,000, adding that “around 4,000 troops will be mobilized for this operation,” in Mali and outside bases. [4]

But there are strong indications the French agenda in Mali is anything but humanitarian. In a France 5 TV interview, Le Drian carelessly admitted, “The goal is the total reconquest of Mali. We will not leave any pockets.” And President Francois Hollande said French troops would remain in the region long enough “to defeat terrorism.” The United States, Canada, Britain, Belgium, Germany and Denmark have all said they would support the French operation against Mali. [5]

Mali itself, like much of Africa is rich in raw materials. It has large reserves of gold, uranium and most recently, though western oil companies try to hide it, of oil, lots of oil. The French preferred to ignore Mali’s vast resources, keeping it a poor subsistence agriculture country. Under the deposed democratically-elected President Amadou Toumani Toure, for the first time the government initiated a systematic mapping of the vast wealth under its soil. According to Mamadou Igor Diarra, previous mining minister, Malian soil contains copper, uranium, phosphate, bauxite, gems and in particular, a large percentage of gold in addition to oil and gas. Thus, Mali is one of the countries in the world with the most raw materials. With its gold mining, the country is already one of the leading exploiters directly behind South Africa and Ghana. [6] Two thirds of France’s electricity is from nuclear power and sources of new uranium are essential. Presently, France draws significant uranium imports from neighboring Niger.

Now the picture gets a little complex.

According to usually reliable former US military experts with direct familiarity with the region, speaking on condition of anonymity, US and NATO Special Forces actually trained the same “terrorist” bands now justifying a neo-colonial US-backed invasion of Mali by France. The major question is why would Washington and Paris train the terrorists they are now acting to destroy in a “war on terror?” Were they really surprised at the lack of NATO loyalty from their trainees? And what is behind AFRICOM’s American-backed French takeover of Mali?
GHFUO, be serious & change ur MENtali 10 years ago

....HE SAYS A N DOES B....

....HE SAYS A N DOES B....
Kofi Einstein, Tel Aviv 10 years ago

Could it be that this" interpreter" was actual a high security guy placed at the front to protect the dignitaries but he was using sign interpretation as a cover.

Could it be that this" interpreter" was actual a high security guy placed at the front to protect the dignitaries but he was using sign interpretation as a cover.
Okro Moff 10 years ago

No tall tales here. The guy has been working for the corrupt ANC for many years. Now they're pretending not to know him, and inventing a story of mental illness. Bullocks. Shame to the rapist-fornicator Zuma and his band of b ...
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No tall tales here. The guy has been working for the corrupt ANC for many years. Now they're pretending not to know him, and inventing a story of mental illness. Bullocks. Shame to the rapist-fornicator Zuma and his band of black elite thieves who sit on white-owned corporations and did not hesitate to order police to massacre the striking Marikana miners.
lee, london 10 years ago

arrest him and jail him for 10 years.he is a 419 man .

arrest him and jail him for 10 years.he is a 419 man .
Kwame 10 years ago

It is a market economy pitfall.

It is a market economy pitfall.

Mandela memorial sign interpreter 'has schizophrenia'

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