A sellout is someone who betrays his own principles and his followers for personal venality. Where is the evidence that South Africa's Mandela betrayed himself and deceived his countrymen for self-gain?
A student at the University of Cape Town recently told me that he had been set an essay for his second-year course in South African Politics. Although the topic was more objectively phrased, the lecturer heavily implied that the students ought to argue from the standpoint that Nelson Mandela was, to quote, a "sellout".
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