Politics

Eric Margolis on polarizing Nelson Mandela.

"In those days, the US and Britain branded Mandela and the ANC as “terrorists.”   White civilians were killed, restaurants and bars bombed. I joined a special South African unit up on the Limpopo River trying to protect isolated, elderly white farmers from  being murdered by gangs of ANC gunmen.
In fact, most of the ANC’s white victims were civilians.  Hundreds of blacks accused of collaboration with the government were “necklaced” (burned to death by having gasoline-filled tires put around their necks). It was your typically brutal, dirty revolutionary war, the kind I’d covered in Africa, Asia and Latin America"

Not much like Gandhi.