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Nelson Mandela receives official Cuban delegation MAPUTO April 15, South Africa, Ex-president of South Africa and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela along with his wife Graca Machel met an official Cuban delegation headed by Jorge Risquet Valdés. The hero of the South African people who fought and defeated the racist apartheid regime of South Africa, was overwhelmed to hear about his friend *Fidel Castro. Upon receiving greetings from the Cuban President he expressed his deepest admiration for the Cuban leader; a leader which he described as a world leader.
During the emotional encounter with the delegation, Mandela was updated on the US embargo on Cuba and the situation of the Cuban Five (Five Cubans who were indicted by a corrupt Miami court for espionage when in reality they were engaged in monitoring Cuban-American terrorist groups in Miami). After learning that the Five Cuban Heroes had expressed their wishes to communicate with the "most famous and valiant political prisoner of the 20th century", he immediately responded that he would gladly establish communication with them. The former political prisoner who had been given a life sentence by the apartheid South African regime and who was imprisoned on Roben Island, showed interest in the book of poems written in the US prison by one of the Cuban Five, former combatant in Angola Antonio Guerrero. In ending, the highly respected Nobel Prize Winner, Mandela, expressed his desire to once again visit Cuba. Source: Granma * Cuba Socialista adds: Cuba and President Fidel Castro was one of the first to recognize and support Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC). The US jumped on the bandwagon at the very end when the battle was almost over. The struggle by Mandela and his followers to end the apartheid South African regime was given a big boost when Cuban troops at the aid of Angola defeated the South African troops in what now is the nation of Namibia. This marked the downfall of the racist regime in South Africa. | ||||||||||||||||||
The
strong bonds of friendship was expressed by Mandela when he declared:
"Fidel is my brother and he will continue to be my brother long after
I'm gone".