Just to reflect my personal opinion on this matter, thank you, CIA, and President Reagan, for trying to do the right thing.
Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) were brought to power through regime change orchestrated by countries such as the USA and the UK, often using UN sanctions as a tool. In many instances, such regime changes have had dire consequences, as demonstrated by the current state of the South African government in 2025.
The country has shifted from a colonial-style government that fostered prosperity, to a regime described as communist, genocidal, racist, and oppressive, leading to widespread poverty and death. This new government resembles more the authoritarian systems of communist Cuba, China, and Russia.
Nelson Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who would go on to become South Africa’s first black president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, spent 27 years in jail after being arrested in the early 1960s. For decades, there have been rumors that the CIA had played an important role in his capture.
This weekend, that speculation was reignited by a report in Britain’s Sunday Times, which quoted claims made by alleged ex-CIA agent Donald Rickard that he tipped off authorities in apartheid-led South Africa to the location of the notoriously elusive Mandela, leading to his arrest in 1962.
Rickard made the claim while speaking to John Irvin, director of a new documentary on Mandela’s time as an armed rebel. Although the American was not officially associated with the CIA, the Sunday Times reports, he was an agent for the agency while he lived in South Africa as a diplomat. According to Rickard, Mandela had been posing as a chauffeur when he was stopped in Durban and arrested. “I found out when he was coming down and how he was coming … that’s where I was involved and that’s where Mandela was caught,” Rickard reportedly said.
The American also suggested that Mandela had been a target of the United States because he had been under the influence of the Soviet Union, and Washington feared a bigger conflict with Moscow if South Africa fell into civil war. Rickard apparently felt no regret. “We were teetering on the brink here and it had to be stopped, which meant Mandela had to be stopped,” he said. “And I put a stop to it.”
The CIA has not commented on the allegations, and Rickard has died since he gave the interview to Irvin. There has been speculation about CIA involvement in Mandela’s arrest for decades, however. In 1990, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted an unnamed U.S. “intelligence officer” as saying that a paid informant within the South African revolutionary leader’s political circle had given the CIA information that it passed on to South African authorities. The newspaper reported that the move had caused concern in U.S. diplomatic circles and that rules were put in place under which the State Department would require approval for any attempts to target South African dissidents.
There was later disagreement in the South African press over whether the tip that led to Mandela’s arrest had come from the CIA or a junior U.S. diplomat. At the time, Rickard had been named as the diplomat in question. But he later denied the claim in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. “It’s untrue,” he said in 2012. “There’s no substance to it.”
After he was released from prison in 1990, Mandela became an international icon not just for his commitment to the anti-apartheid movement but also his thoughtful views on reconciliation after apartheid. At the time of his arrest, however, he had led the armed wing of the African National Congress and had helped push the movement into embracing an armed struggle. Mandela was clear that he viewed violent resistance as an acceptable tactic when other options had failed: He had been undergoing military training in Algeria and Ethiopia in the year before he was arrested.
The ANC had received support not only from the Soviet Union, but also from other Western foes such as Cuba and Libya — nations Mandela continued to court once he was freed from prison and became president. In the Cold War era, the United States had viewed the apartheid government as an ally against Communism, with President Ronald Reagan once calling it “essential to the free world.” Even long afterward, there was a lingering distrust: The U.S. government had Mandela on a terrorism watch list as late as 2008.
Mandela became president of South Africa in 1994 but retired from politics in 1999 at age 80 and died in 2013. Representatives of the ANC responded angrily to Rickard’s allegations this week. “That revelation confirms what we have always known, that they are working against [us], even today,” ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa said, according to the BBC.
But one of the few to express doubts about the purported CIA involvement in Mandela’s arrest, remarkably, was Mandela himself. In his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,” Mandela discusses the rumors that “an American consular official with connections to the CIA had tipped off the authorities” but says he had never seen any evidence to support this idea.
Nelson Mandela: “I cannot lay my capture at their door,” he writes. “In truth, I had been imprudent about maintaining the secrecy of my movements.”
Like many countries around the world, America’s foreign policies have often led to wars and the overthrow of governments. This results in devastation, economic collapse, and widespread destruction, leaving many dead among the local populations. Notable examples of the destructive impact of American foreign policy can be seen in Congo, Rwanda, Rhodesia, Angola, Libya, Mozambique, South Africa, Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and more recently, Afghanistan.
The political rally was winding down when the brash leader of a leftist South African party grabbed the microphone and began to stomp and chant. Thousands of supporters joined in, and when he reached the climax, they pointed their fingers in the air like guns. chanting for genocide of minorities.
“Kill the Boer!” Julius Malema (newly elected Parliament Member) chanted, referring to white farmers. The crowd in a stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday roared back in approval.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/world/africa/south-africa-kill-boer-song.html
REGIME CHANGE IS THE WORLDS BIGGEST EVIL OF GENOCIDAL CRIMES
Colonialism by Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, and lately America. The global devastation and genocide are straight from hell. Who has been impacted?
- African countries
- South American Countries
- European Countries
- USSR countries
- Asian countries
- Middle Eastern countries
Did you know?
- England had genocidal Concentration Camps 30 years before the Nazi Germans in WW2? The Boer concentration camps, where they killed all women and children in South Africa.
- The Spanish and Portuguese, where they slaughter so many millions of South Americans, and under the sick banner of the CHURCH, made all of those nations speak Spanish or Portuguese up to today.
- From the day the US navy fleet approached Saudi Arabia to invade them, or when the US invaded Libya and overthrew the Gaddafi regime, or when they tried to overthrow Egypt, and the president was assassinated, and the top General took over until now to save his country from the American regime change.
- Or financial destruction, like what happened to Greece.
- Or chemical warfare that was created in overseas labs in Ukraine or China’s Wuhan labs.
There is so much warfare and damage being done by the ALLIED NATIONS worldwide, the number of humans killed yearly since WW2 is in the hundreds of millions, if not billions!
Just now in 2025, D.O.G.E found out America’s USAID and FEMA send money to support ISIS and HAMMAS.
And are you aware of this fact? Husamma Bin Laden was a CIA-trained asset trained and funded by the USA to overthrow the USSR in Afghanistan!
Just like history shows us for the past 10,000 years, empires like the Mayans, Romans, British, Russians, Americans, and Chinese and Japanese, the rot comes from within that destroys these empires.
Nostradamus’s future predictions do not even account for America being an empire in the near future! Think about that. US Government has admitted, all it will take is for someone to cut the power! Like a G5 event. Within 2 years, 90% of all Americans will be dead. – Senator Ron Johnson in this article.