Rudolph
04-10-2008, 04:21 AM
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2303026,00.html
Rice: Get ANC off blacklist
09/04/2008 22:35 - (SA)
Washington - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday it was time to remove former SA president Nelson Mandela and his party from a US blacklist drawn up during the apartheid era.
"I really do hope that we can remove these restrictions on the ANC," Rice told a Senate committee, referring to the blacklist on SA ruling African National Congress (ANC) party.
"This is a country with which we have now excellent relations, South Africa," Rice said.
"But it is really a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of SA, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela," she said.
Howard Berman, chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, recently introduced a bill aimed at removing from any US databases "any notation that would characterise the ANC and its leaders as terrorists", his website said.
"It is shameful that the US still treats the ANC this way based solely on its designation as a terrorist organisation by the old apartheid South African regime," Berman said in a statement last Friday.
"Amazingly, Nelson Mandela still needs to get a special waiver to enter the US based on his courageous leadership of the ANC. What an indignity. This legislation will wipe it away," he said.
No date has been given for voting on the bill, which the House committee believes will be easily adopted in Congress, with support from the US State Department.
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Yeah, but in a few years they are gonna have to put the same travel restrictions back as they did with the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe.
Rice: Get ANC off blacklist
09/04/2008 22:35 - (SA)
Washington - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday it was time to remove former SA president Nelson Mandela and his party from a US blacklist drawn up during the apartheid era.
"I really do hope that we can remove these restrictions on the ANC," Rice told a Senate committee, referring to the blacklist on SA ruling African National Congress (ANC) party.
"This is a country with which we have now excellent relations, South Africa," Rice said.
"But it is really a rather embarrassing matter that I still have to waive in my own counterpart, the foreign minister of SA, not to mention the great leader Nelson Mandela," she said.
Howard Berman, chair of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, recently introduced a bill aimed at removing from any US databases "any notation that would characterise the ANC and its leaders as terrorists", his website said.
"It is shameful that the US still treats the ANC this way based solely on its designation as a terrorist organisation by the old apartheid South African regime," Berman said in a statement last Friday.
"Amazingly, Nelson Mandela still needs to get a special waiver to enter the US based on his courageous leadership of the ANC. What an indignity. This legislation will wipe it away," he said.
No date has been given for voting on the bill, which the House committee believes will be easily adopted in Congress, with support from the US State Department.
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Yeah, but in a few years they are gonna have to put the same travel restrictions back as they did with the ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe.