Wikileaks is currently in the process of publishing 250 000 documents that discloses classified communication between the US State department and it’s 270 embassies worldwide. It’s causing some serious political drama worldwide and there’s a South African connection involving US critisism of Mandela.
I’ve scanned the interwebs and here’s a quick rundown of how South Africa features in the Wikileaks documents so far:
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela helped US officials gain access to Madiba
- Nelson Mandela criticised for his opposition to the US led invasion of Iraq
- ANC co-operated with US intelligence services and gave confidential info before 1994 elections
- Planned De Klerk speech that changed South Africa and paved the way for Nelson Mandela to be released from prison
- Nelson Mandela was “furious” when a top adviser stopped him meeting Margaret Thatcher
- SA International Affairs minister called Robert Mugabe a” crazy old man”
That’s all for now , but only a fraction of the 250 000 documents have been released so expect more later. I’ll update you when further South African communications are released. If you have any other SA developments just leave a comment.
Shot.
[sources: News Time, news24, Mail & Guardian, EWN, Memeburn]
Not really many suprises there….. One that you have missed out is that Mandela called Tony Blair the USA’s best diplomat … lol
The rest is pretty much what I think the general population of South Africa thinks… George Bush is not the brightest bulb on the tree and the war in Iraq was not well supported by anyone outside the USA and the UK.
What I want to see is what the auditors who are looking over the arms deal have to say – the deal did have R100 million set aside for bribes… and if R30 million went to “Shabir Shaik”, where did the other R70 million go….
I bet that any real sensative info would never get out onto the interwebs….
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Its all old news….South Africans knew all of this for years now…!Its like reading a book from 1994! Boring…Everyone knew the US was involved in appointing the ANC, the millions De Klerk and Pik Botha received to hand over power! The US wanted to get more control over the South African energy sources and that was the easy way with deals they had arange with the Kommunist ANC. Sadly for them everything went up in smoke and so now they criticise the ANC.
The US even estimated the amount of white and anti ANC civilians that will get murdered from 1994!
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lol oh well tell us something new really now.bt wants the point of telling all of this when it doesn’t really make a difference wether we know or not at the end of the day.