Can't recommend any articles but from personal experience in 1987 Mandelas boys set up a car bomb in my motel and damn near got me. I would say without hesitation his rise to power came through terrorism. The bomb BTW was 56 kilos of Semtex..provided by the Soviet Union, so not only was he a terrorist but a communist.
This was in Windhoek Namibia, as they were struggling with a 10 year plus war for their " Independence"... Went back ten years later and asked how it all shaked out...seems they were a sister nation with RSA and RSA intelligence told them to hang on just a bit longer if they could...With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1990 came a lack of funding, support, arms etc to the ANC....
Coincidence?
I think not.
The USA makes some kind of social Icon out of Mandela, but he was nothing but a terrorist and a communist.
