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Mandela still alive after embarrassing Bush remark
Fri Sep 21, 8:15 AM ET
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite
an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the
former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian
violence in Iraq.
"It's out there. All we can do is reassure people, especially South
Africans, that President Mandela is alive," Achmat Dangor, chief executive
officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said as Bush's comments received
worldwide coverage.
In a speech defending his administration's Iraq policy, Bush said former
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's brutality had made it impossible for a
unifying leader to emerge and stop the sectarian violence that has
engulfed the Middle Eastern nation.
"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because
Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for
verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.
Jailed for 27 years for fighting white minority rule, Mandela became South
Africa's first black president in 1994. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for
preaching racial harmony and guiding the nation peacefully into the
post-apartheid era.
References to his death -- Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail -- are
seen as insensitive in South Africa.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070921/wl_nm/safrica_mandela_bush_dc_1
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