claim: says nelson mandela "was a communist."
author: bill o'reilly
evidence_1: dec 8, 2012 ... a new book claims that, 50 years after he was first accused of being a communist , nelson mandela was a communist party member after all.
evidence_2: dec 7, 2013 ... “today, the a.n.c. officially claims still to be at the first stage ... of a ... president  nelson mandela paid tribute to the communist leader joe slovo ...
evidence_3: jan 18, 2014 ... this is a story about nelson mandela, and it begins on robben island in 1974. ...  smoking gun, the inside and untold story of mandela's secret life as a communist  plotter. ... but in the prison manuscript, he says the opposite.
evidence_4: jul 18, 2018 ... on the centennial of nelson mandela's birth, he is remembered as a ... yet  throughout his life, mandela had a habit of saying that he was “not a saint ... year  detailing any communist influences on the anc,” time put it in 1986.
evidence_5: aug 18, 2015 ... when he revealed beyond dispute that nelson mandela had been a member of  the central committee of the south african communist party (sacp) for a ... one  critic said: 'ellis's undisguised purpose in the 1980s was to ...