Reg Fowles (Letters, Nov 10) is a brave man, daring to swim against the
current of Mandelamania and criticise Nelson Mandela for his leadership of the
protest movement in South Africa. I’ll grab hold of his coat-tails and add that
while achieving equality of life for millions of people, Mandela also denied
life itself to millions more by legislating for abortion on demand. And it’s
ironic that conservative politicians like John Key, Jim Bolger and Don McKinnon
are lining up to pay tribute to a self-avowed ‘good Communist’ who himself paid
tribute to Fidel Castro, Muammar Qaddafi and Yasser Arafat.
Julia du Fresne
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