Nelson Mandela was on US Terror Watchlist till 2008
Former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela was on the US Terror Watchlist till 2008. The FBI monitored him in the 1990s over a perceived ‘communist’ threat. Notably, Mandela was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.