Why Nelson #Mandela Was Viewed as a 'Terrorist' by the U.S. Until 2008

source: https://www.biography.com/news/nelson-mandela-terrorist-reagan-thatcher

“The South African #government is under no obligation to negotiate the future of the country with any organization that proclaims a goal of creating a communist state, and uses terrorist tactics and #violence to achieve it,” #Reagan said in a 1986 speech.

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Succeeding leaders in the U.S. and U.K. had more favorable views of Mandela, who became South Africa’s president in 1994. Even so, the U.S. continued to classify Mandela and his party as terrorists until 2008. That July, President George W. #Bush signed a bill removing them from all terrorist lists.

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