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Nelson Mandela has died
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My husband and I need an argument settling- is Mandela dead? I seem to recall American guests on This Morning mention his death months ago but husband reckons he's still on life support.
It's an exciting night in the Noooway household...
It's an exciting night in the Noooway household...
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You have a connection to the Internet. Did you try Google?
There are some tinfoil hatists who think he died months ago and the authorities are just frightened to release the news in case it causes riots in SA but you know what those sorts are like.
Kind of vaguely interesting....
Common sense would dictate that we'd know when he dies, for sure, cos his relatives would announce it.
Thing is, that might not necessarily be the case.
Seems that there are various factions of the Mandela family who're all battling for the right to take possession of his remains (once he's dead, of course) cos they know what a money-spinner it can be.
As a result of all this, they might not be as transparent with the information as they could be if they think there might be an opportunity to strengthen their own claim on his remains.
If I was Mandela I'd have it written into my will that my ashes get chucked out of a plane flying over the scrublands or summat, just to put an end to the bullshit.
The only positive pieces of news have come from very fishy family sources.
Yes, there seems to be strange behaviour surrounding a grave/tomb IIRC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25214805
You mean this. It wasn't Mandela.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-23159159
That's not the point the commenter was making.
It's about the fight over the "official" Mandela family tomb.
It's also customary in SA to never talk of death or dying, especially of such an iconic figure... no-one will ever report he's on the way out.... the first report will be he's dead. Physically dead, not mentally dead, as is now probably the case.
Was it, how do you know:s
I believe that one faction of his family has already bought a plot of land to build a "Mandela theme-park" on and they want his remains to endorse the venture.
Meanwhile, another bunch own his house and they're hoping for the remains so they can turn it into a south-african version of "Graceland".
All very classy.
They sound like the SA version of the Jacksons
Ha ha! I can just see the attractions; instead of a 5-minute roller coaster ride, you can sit in a small room for 25 years.
Re-live all the excitement of apartheid South Africa; assemble your very own souvenir letter bomb, take part in a riot, necklace an informer...
All sounds less painful than a day at Alton Towers, TBH.
It's not Eastenders.
Hopefully - that most of us would miss the swathes of TV with members of S Club 7, Big Brother "stars" and other ignoramuses doing endless vox-pops about what a great man he was.
Won't someone think of the tv schedule!