{"id":905,"date":"2007-09-21T20:52:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T20:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrikaansenuus.co.za\/?p=905"},"modified":"2007-09-21T20:52:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T20:52:10","slug":"mandelas-dead-says-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/?p=905","title":{"rendered":"‘Mandela’s dead’ says Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"
Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite a gaffe by US President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader’s death in a speech yesterday.<\/p>\n

"It’s out there," said Achmat Dangor of the Nelson Mandela Foundation of Mr Bush’s comment, which received worldwide media coverage.<\/p>\n

"All we can do is reassure people, especially South Africans, that President Mandela is alive," he said.<\/p>\n

In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Mr Bush said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible to unite the country.<\/p>\n

"I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’," he said.<\/p>\n

"Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."<\/p>\n

The bizarre gaffe was made in a press conference in Washington yesterday.<\/p>\n

Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for preaching racial harmony and guiding the nation into the post-apartheid era.<\/p>\n

References to his death – Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail – are seen as insensitive in South Africa. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite a gaffe by US President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader’s death in a speech yesterday. "It’s out there," said Achmat Dangor of the Nelson Mandela Foundation of Mr Bush’s comment, which received worldwide media coverage. "All we can do is reassure … Continue reading “‘Mandela’s dead’ says Bush”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[901,21098,173],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c51-international-news","tag-mandelas-dead-says-bush","tag-s19-english","tag-select-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}