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Originally Posted by mid wicket
Mrs. T was best friends with General Pinochet and considered Nelson Mandela an enemy. Enough said.
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Mr. Mandela was an enemy of the state and in league with the Soviet Union via the backers of the ANC. That in no way means Thatcher didn't also want to see an end to Dutch apartheid. The English were not really fans of the Dutch.
Mandela was caught in a terrorist plot and jailed for it.
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he co-founded the militant Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1961, leading a bombing campaign against government targets. In 1962 he was arrested and convicted of sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government, being sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Mr. Pinochet was a foreign leader at the time. Dictator or not, dealing with other foreign leaders is all part of the job.