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You mention Johannesburg but your link conflates that with a general "many innocent people" however one 77 year old was killed at that 1964 bombing. Your estimate of "hundreds" isn't even agreed by the South African police which states that 130 were killed between 1976 and 1986.
You and your source overplay your hand very badly.
As for the word terrorist - the Apartheid government and the American government threw that term out once umKhonto we Sizwe took their first action against government installations which were a direct result of the Sharpeville massacre. Telling that you care more about denigrating Mandela throughout this thread than the government which he opposed and which failed to break him.
As for your earlier challenge to PeteEU about George Washington and the word "terrorist" - the term hadn't been invented yet so your challenge was a strawman nobody could ever face. First record of use of the word "terrorist" was 1796. Washington was born 1732 and died 3 years after the first use of the word terrorist - he was aged 67.
As for what he faced - the causes of the war of independence are many and some ignoble (such as the desire to expand into Indian areas and steal their land) whereas Mandela was fighting for the return of stolen lands and the murder of unarmed civilians.
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Hundreds killed and wounded not killed. Don't misquote me, it makes you look like you have to lie to make your point.
Washington was not a terrorist by todays meaning of the word, it does not matter that the word didn't exist in his time.
No matter that Mandela's cause was just terrorism is terrorism and killing women and children make him a terrorist.