Speaking at the International Women’s Forum in Joburg today, Nelson Mandela launched a scathing attack on George W Bush saying the US leader wanted to plunge the world into a “holocaust” with his planned attack on Iraq.

“If Saddam Hussein was not carrying out the UN instructions and resolutions… I will support them (the UN) without resignation, but what I condemn is one power with a president who can’t think properly and wants to plant the world into holocaust.” Read more here.