MANDELA: YOUR ENEMIES ARE NOT OUR ENEMIES!

Three decades ago today, Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa's first democratically elected president.

His party, the African National Congress, had emerged victorious in the country's first truly democratic elections, officially ending decades of settler oppression of Black people.

It was a watershed moment in the history of the country and in the life of a man who had spent 27 years in prison after being jailed by the racist regime in the early 1960s for his anti-apartheid activities.

The mainstream media, when reflecting on Mandela's legacy, always omits the fact that he remained loyal to those who supported the anti-apartheid struggle. As he famously told his Western detractors: ‘Your enemies are not our enemies!‘

Watch him deliver that line here in this iconic clip - in which he demolishes a critic who tried to get him to disown leaders despised by Western nations. Do you cheer his remarks as loudly as the audience does here?