Mandela-GateOne of the most disturbing, cynical theories in recent - TopicsExpress



          

Mandela-GateOne of the most disturbing, cynical theories in recent memory has to be Mandela-Gate.As the narrative goes, when Mandela was very publicly admitted to hospital last year in June, he was by all accounts on his deathbed. Instead of granting the great man a dignified end, he was wired and tubed into life-support systems that at best, kept him on this side of the divide by the thinnest of margins.The end-game? To commandeer his death as the ultimate election campaign tool. How do you counter a Public Protector investigation a few months before elections? By producing the death of the world’s most beloved statesman, and playing the grieving, dignified ruling party, ready and able to carry forth the Madiba legacy.While one can decide to reject this theory as distasteful at best, what one must note, is that this story is hard to immediately dismiss out of hand. This perhaps is a symptom of the lost trust some may say has occurred between the ANC and the electorate. While this story gained traction in some foreign publications, the lack of proof, and perhaps the possibility of legal action, largely prevented local media from running with it.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 12:07:01 +0000

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