Clint Eastwood tries to turn history into mush. Clint Eastwood presents Mandela as a conciliator and ultimately the exonerater of the supporters of Apartheid. Is Mandela happy with this image? The reasons why the western media has attacked, and will continue to attack Jacob Zuma , centre around the ridiculous identity politics of the soft left in Britain , hollowed out of all socialism: lacking any coherent philosophy of social justice and brimming with empty-headed market oriented opportunism. The western media approved of Mandela's overly conciliatory beginnings after his release in 1990 and saw its reflection in the policies of Thabo Mbeki's government. Mandela should speak out against Invictus' distortion of history and reject his over-flattering portrayal, one that reduces the whole of the liberation struggle of the ANC, from the time the ANC was founded in 1912, to the "Christ-like" actions of one individual. History has plenty of people who made grea...
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