"Mandela was leader of the ANC's armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe which he co-founded. "he coordinated a sabotage campaign against military and government targets, and made plans for a possible guerrilla war if sabotage failed to end apartheid". If that's not terrorism (systematic use of violence as a means of coercion for political purposes) what is? The morality of this is another discussion.

> terrorism (systematic use of violence as a means of coercion for political purposes)

All warfare seems to fit under this definition. Commonly explicitly added qualifiers are "against civilians" or "by non-state actors". Another implicit one is "by people the speaker doesn't like".

Right, but we're talking about a non-state actor attacking civilian targets like power stations. Mandela fits any reasonable definition of terrorist.

Sure, not disputing that, only the definition expressed.

I understand she was in power at the time. Cameron was linked however to this[1] 'hang Mandela' campaign poster. I'm not positive but I believe he apologised in parliament after Mandela's death.

[1] http://i.stack.imgur.com/TeN0o.jpg

Cameron apologied on behalf of Conservative party [1], not personally.

The "Hang Nelson Mandela" material was created by a group, which Cameron was not involved with, within the Federation of Conservative Students.

Disclosure: I'm not a Conservative supporter. I dislike what Cameron is currently doing and loathe Thatcher.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cameron-we-wer...

[2] http://www.newstatesman.com/media-mole/2013/12/twitter-fact-...

I'm pretty sure that they both "considered Mandela to be a terrorist", and most of the rest of the Conservative party at the time did too. But at the time nobody cared what David Cameron thought.