On Oct 20, 2011, Libya's ex-leader and African strong warrior- hero Col. Muammar Gaddafi was captured and unlawfully killed by the hands of the NATO backed now Libya legitimacy government ( Libya's National Transitional Council- NTC). BeeAfrican Networks look back on some of the greatest movements of Col. Muammar Gaddafi 's regime included the World most powerful man and African greatest hero of all time Nelson Mandela calling the late Col. Muammar Gaddafi (May Allah Bless Him) "My Brother Leader" in his 2007 speech.
A grandson of Nelson Mandela is named Gadaffi - a sign of how popular the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi once was in South Africa and many other African countries.
Nelson Mandela's Honored Muammar Gaddafi:
"I shall therefore take the liberty to invite our guests to rise and raise their glasses with me in salute to Muammar Gaddafi, our Brother Leader of the Revolution of the Libyan Jamahariya"
South Africa (Zuma) said that the NATO-backed revolt has undermined the "African Union's efforts and initiatives to handle the situation in Libya." Mandela made a high-profile visit to Libya in 1997 when he presented the colonel with South Africa's highest award, the Order of Good Hope.
Nelson Mandela once said:
"Those who feel irritated by our friendship with President Gaddafi can go jump in the pool".
It was pure expediency to call on democratic South Africa to turn its back on Libya and Gaddafi, who had assisted us in obtaining democracy at a time when those who now made that call were the friends of the enemies of democracy in South Africa.
Had we heeded those demands, we would have betrayed the very values and attitudes that allowed us as a nation to have adversaries sitting down and negotiating in a spirit of compromise. It would have meant denying that the South African experience could be a model and example for international behaviour. More
Issued by the Office of the President, June 13 1999
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A LUNCHEON IN HONOUR OF MUAMAR QADDAFI, LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE LIBYAN JAMAHARIYA, Cape Town, 13 June 1999
Paraded: Bystanders watch over Gaddafi's body as it lies in a storage freezer in Misrata
A spokesman for one of those traditional leaders - Uganda's Tooro kingdom - says Col Gaddafi was a "visionary" and would be missed.
"We saw the human side of him - not Gaddafi the colonel or the proverbial terrorist as the Americans and Europeans described him," Philip Winyi said.
"In spite of what many see as his weaknesses, he has done quite a lot for Africa, contributing to the building of infrastructure."
Col Gaddafi pushed for a United States of Africa to rival the US and the European Union (EU).
"We want an African military to defend Africa. We want a single currency. We want one African passport," he said.
Shortly after the death of Muammar Gaddafi , the African Union recognized the new Libya government. And the wife of Gaddafi "asks the United Nations to investigate the death of the fighter Muammar.
Source: Lartink@beeafrican.info
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