Mandela 'felt betrayed' by Nigeria's General Abacha after execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa - Mbeki

Ken Saro-Wiwa

Nigeria's former military ruler Sani Abacha reneged on a promise he made to South Africa that leading human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa would not be executed, South Africa's ex-leader Thabo Mbeki has said, in the latest Facebook post looking back at his time in government.

The execution in 1995 of Mr Saro-Wiwa and eight others left Nelson Mandela, who had become South Africa's first democratically elected president a year earlier, "truly surprised and genuinely outraged that Gen Abacha could evidently so easily betray his solemn undertaking in this regard", says Mr Mbeki, who was Mr Mandela's deputy at the time.

- BBC