INTERVIEW: Mbeki says Fidel Castro was committed to SA's liberation

Meanwhile, Former President, Thabo Mbeki says Fidel Castro was committed to ensuring that South Africa attains liberation. Mbeki says Castro even advised the then ANC President OR Tambo on the challenges they are likely to face in implementing the Freedom Charter. Let's take a listen at President Mbeki sharing his fondest memories of Castro.
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[@martinmafan]

Former president Thabo Mbeki knows how to narrate.

[@thamilawrence8468]

I am learning a lot from comrade Mbeki all the time.

[@phumudzomudau2648]

My president

[@richardranwashe6205]

we salute him and we are morning with the family our deepest condelencies to the family and the friends

[@joanmuller3293]

Long Live Comandante Fidel Castro Long Live!

[@richardranwashe6205]

Indeed it is a great loss to our Continent as a whole, we lost a great leader who stand up for our democracy and who lead his country, he led Cuba for very long time and develop the country, my his soul rest in peace when the sun rise we will remember him, when the sun set we will remember his work.

[@mphomkhalipi6537]

You gained nothing from Cuba not let the ANC lie to you that this scumbag sacrificed the lives of ordinary people he represented a failed political ideology called communism. Your president and his colleagues in parliament are amassing wealth stealing from the state coffers to build Nkandla and sold the country to the Gupta family , that is not the life of a communist .Castro ran the biggest narcotics family to enrich himself and his family he didn't die a poor man.

[@richardranwashe6205]

Mpho you sound like person who is influenced by anger, so the benefit for the Cuban to the ruling party is not easy to identifies if you are still in dark. You know nothing about the relationship between two country you are still on holding on a JZ scandal and it shows that you are still young when it comes to a politics on the continent. You just look at the benefit that is visible or tangible so my advise to you is stop being Hippocrates you will hurt yourself.

[@mphomkhalipi6537]

richard ranwashe Let me spell it for you am from the class of 76 . Now show me the benefits obtained from Cuba and I would prove to you how the ordinary man and women who toyi toyied won the independence of this country not Castro not the ANC

[@richardranwashe6205]

That is your problem, you are lazy and rotten minded person you think everything will be deliver to you while you are sleeping because you are the class of 76, you are wrong today we are where we are because of the people like Fidel Castro how many doctors we have in our country whom they from Cuba? You are very low you don't sound like 76 class. I am so disappointed on you i think you are man enough to stand on your own fit to bring and advise the young kids you are very useless.

[@richardranwashe6205]

Who was advising and protecting you just toy toying with others but you was not knowing what was happening, You are the same group who like going out and influencing people to steel from the other. South Africa was not going to independent if it was not the assistance from the Cuba,Mozambique,Swaziland, Botswana Zimbabwe and other African country, 1976 class was not more on the freedom they was more focus on the use of Afrikaans language it was just co incident that the common goal was met after the release of former president DR Rolihlahla Madiba Nelson Mandela. You must revisit the school and they will be able to help you with knowledge about the history of Cuba and other African country how did they help south Africa to be here today.

[@MrUtnab]

why is the subject out of focus ?

[@jacobzaranyika9334]

Now I am a terrorist for being educated and knowing stuff.

[@doumut1229]

my deepest condolences to the loss of Fidel Castro.we mourn with you Cuba.shame on you those happy about his death in America, shame!

[@MegaTamarra]

RIP Fidel Castro the Great Revolutionar!!!

[@janinasimons8533]

rest in peace,,, you kept you country safe from the clutches of the usa, you made a positive change in your country and in other countries...... and made Cuba great... much to the frustration of USA, Hope you brother doesnt fall for USA's latest tricks of saying they will help,,, remember history and how the USA helped you before Fidel..... do not forget the terrorist USA will never change her ways

[@janinasimons8533]

Paul Irving that comment doesnt warrant a reply

[@jonathanfletcher6273]

As black people whether African, Caribbean or South American we should never forget the brotherhood and solidarity that we had with Fidel (and Che) and not fall for the lies of the Anglo-Jewish media. While they were supporting Apartheid sometimes openly and sometimes behind closed doors (David Cameron lobbied to keep Nelson Mandela in prison) the Cubans were helping us fight for freedom and independence across the globe. viva la revolution.

[@Againstdhawa]

fukk fidel castro he was a colonist himself from spain who colonised cuba. Castro was a dictator a fraud living a lie he is stinking rich and he impoverished cuba took it back to the stone age castro is not true Cuban he is a Spanish invader whos family disposed of the indian Arawak castro iwas a dictator who murdered and oppressed people how can you declare a one party state for 50 years no wonder African nations love him

[@Againstdhawa]

Paul Irving castro did good in Africa but not to cuba his home he was a murderous dictator also castro is Spanish his ancestors are colonists just as the whites in south Africa are. cuba belonged to the Arawak indian tribe before the Spanish invaded

[@peter-johndejong9880]

Jonathan Fletcher fidel castro oppressed his own people in cuba, including the black community.

[@briantrend1812]

Paul Irving libtaard STFU your professor is a bullshitter there are a lot more lefty professor bullshitters like him who just make up crap like him and gullible lefty idiots like you who swallow this Marxist bullshit

[@fleuvecongo1]

RIP el Comandante!

[@davidboyd3971]

RIP COMRADE FIDEL CASTRO ONE THE GREATEST REVOLUTIONARY FREEDOM FIGHTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. WE THANK HIM AND THE CUBAN PEOPLE FOR GIVING THEIR FULL SUPPORT TO THE REST OF US WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR LIBERATION AGAINST GLOBAL WHITE SUPREMACY. WE LOVE YOU COMMANDANT EL PRESIDENTE.

[@tcn2289]

We will always remember and love you Fidel Castro. Love from the United States of Africa.

[@petrinaandima2055]

rest in peace tata Fidel

[@plonkerplonker5972]

Thabo Mbeki, a great man who has talked out against the worst scientific mistake of all time , HIV leading to AIDS theory , thank for talking out

[@rendanipeace7508]

Mbeki our true President

[@ralekoamolefe5487]

We had to be in the shoes of PresidentCastro,not forgoting his role of Liberated and Educate South AFRICA.

[@hanshangue2217]

very articulate account on Fidel,,,could have listen to u talking bout it Mr Former President

[@alfredocanals8890]

Honor y Gloria eternos al Señor Teniente General Don Jorge Rafael Videla....!!!!!

[@nekongovitankanga]

At the independence declaration meeting, Angola's first president Agostinho NETO, said:"... ANGOLA WILL BE BY ITS OWN WILL, THE FIRM TRENCH OF THE REVOLUTION IN AFRICA. THE CONTINUATION OF OUR STRUGGLE IS NOW IN NAMIBIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND Zimbabwe" .So, you can see NETO was like a Prophet, it turned out to be just like that, with the exception of Zimbabwe, which got its independence with no much help from Angola, the other two, owe Angola a big thank you. Yes we will forever be grateful for Cuba and USSR help as we as Swapo. President dos Santos kept the promise his elder Neto had made to the Africans and has delivered on it, today we are all free.

[@Nelson_Mandela_]

Nna ke kgopotse gae, Ko Cuba. Gabo Castro ✊🇿🇦 SA will never forget the Cubans. Even during covid as all countries closed borders with SA, Cuba sent an army of doctors to help is with the pandemic. We love Cuba. And Castro is our hero ❤️

[@samadsamad5755]

LONG LIVE THE GREAT REVOLUTIONARY FIDEL CASTRO!

[@bhekayaka8753]

Fidel was talking head on with them. Sparing no thought to decorum.

[@ProfessorofTruth]

What about Afro-Cuban liberation?

[@V59971]

Thabo turning into a Morgan Freeman

[@HassanAli-zd3oh]

are absolutely right brother

[@yilinasemqadi4195]

😮

[@samukelothwala]

Man. does he do public lectures?

[@mrmusanda3576]

5:30

[@bossoheliasafrokodzo2899]

A Genius " A Legend and a Comrade Rest Well ❤❤❤

[@timcuencaaarum2690]

Its a fact

[@ibmvietnam9790]

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[@CrowdPleeza]

Being revolutionary doesn't always equal being democratic.

[@kurtdixon4700]

CrowdPleeza is the US democratic?

[@CrowdPleeza]

+Kurt Dixon The U.S does have a democratic structure. Americans are able to vote in elections and choose our leaders without having any coups. The. U.S is a democracy but it isn't a perfect democracy. America has a history of flawed individuals living within it. These people have complicated America's democracy. But America has always had a democratic structure that has allowed America to correct it's shortcomings.

[@hueykhalidX]

@crowd - AmeriKKKa is a nation built on enslavement, genocide, pillage, rape and exploitation.

[@bngmln5326]

Cuban people celebrated when Fidel Castro died.

[@warjacare]

This man has murdered thousands of Africans. Don't rest in peace. . Cuba is a terribly poor country. Doctors are very incompetent and population has no medicines. Mbeki is not telling the truth. You can leave SA at any time. Cubans cannot leave Cuba . Cuba is a giant jail.

[@yaks1777]

Stop making baseless claims.The racist brutal dictator Batista was worst and killed more black cubans for that matter.Fidel was a liberator.He just frustrated the west because they couldnt defeat him

[@danroley7850]

...the Truth!! if these gaumy pedophile commie Castro bed- partners actually met Cuban Refugees their lies would be Exposed.

[@bossoheliasafrokodzo2899]

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[@bryanwest7223]

As much as what I admire the late Fidel Castro. his troops were not supplied to fight against for the ANC against the apartheid regime but for for needed US $ to help keep his country's cash flow.