>> Who did he murder?
Quite. He wasn't into killing.
Zero points out that the ANC had and has an oppressive, racist and corrupt side. That's true too, but these things can't reasonably be laid at Mandela's door. It's a mass movement, or was, not a dictator's project. Mandela never 'ran' the ANC. He was its figurehead or chairman.
What he did, just because of the way things fell, was to embody very plainly, at the crucial moment, the possibility that South Africa could become a non-racist country. He was a piece of good luck for everyone. I doubt that he thought he had done it all by himself.
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