Changing Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… (ANC) ranks during the 1940s, Mandela was viewed as a major thorn in the side of the apartheid government, serving … when he was jailed.” When Mandela emerged from prison in 1990, he emerged as a largely messianic figure for the South … bodies sprawled in dust had names, hopes and dreams.” The massacres at Boipatong and Bisho to which Xaso refers took …