Today is the 27th Anniversary when Nelson Mandela invited Sinn Féin to South Africa to commemorate both the Irish and African peoples struggle against the British State

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  4. I remember when Gerry Adams was invited to be a Pallbearer at Mandelas funeral. FG and FF got into a pissy fit about it. haha

  5. The shared struggle of blacks and Irish against Anglo tyranny has been acknowledged as far back as Douglass.

    Up Mandela. Shame the people who inherited his legacy haven’t done well with their country, but I suppose you could say the same for Collins and DeValera, or Lincoln for that matter.

  6. The finest MI5 asset to ever do it gets his shot at gleaning intel from a head-of-state, fair play

  7. Wasn’t Mandela’s struggle mostly directed against the South African state? They became a republic in 1961, I believe. Those Afrikaners were no British nationalists.

  11. What on Earth are you talking about? South Africa was a republic which had left the commonwealth before serious anti apartheid activism had really go going. But yeah, Gerry Adams good, upvote to the left please.

  13. I remember Varadkar (very admiringly) bringing up Mandela in the context of a debate about unification and finding it rather interesting given Mandela’s well-documented support of the IRA, not to mention that he was, of course, a founding member of uMkhonto we Sizwe.

    On the latter point perhaps he was referring to how Mandela ultimately abandoned violence but could that logic not apply to Adams and McGuiness too? Would the average FG politician and Leo too hold to the same perspective as it relates to former PIRA gunmen?

    As someone interested in South African history it struck me as being a strange point for Leo to make.

  14. your caption isn’t accurate at all. This picture has nothing to do with the British state, South Africa was an independent country when apartheid took place largely under those of Dutch heritage / Afrikaans and became a republic in 1961, they were expelled from the Commonwealth because of apartheid before re-joining in 1994 ‘*The visit has been arranged by the African National Congress so that Sinn Fein and its military wing, the Irish Republican Army (IRA), can learn from the negotiations process in South Africa*.’

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    [https://mg.co.za/article/1995-06-09-mandela-meeting-for-sinn-feins-adams/](https://mg.co.za/article/1995-06-09-mandela-meeting-for-sinn-feins-adams/)

  15. The brits love to call Mandela a terrorist, love how theyre blissfully unaware of their own history, responsible for tens of millions of deaths.

  18. I’ve seen estimates saying 150 million, not really looked into it in depth so was being Conservative 😳

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