by Ariel Dorfman
I cannot recall the first time I heard of Nelson Mandela’s existence. It could have been in 1962, when the future President of South Africa had been sentenced to life imprisonment…
By Diana Cariboni
IPS – Perhaps it’s a false contradiction. But today there are many who stress the pacifist message with which South Africa’s Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) emerged from prison in 1990…
Nelson Mandela was the last of a great generation of freedom fighters who guided South Africa’s liberation struggle from the early days of theAfrican National Congress Youth League in the 1940s.
Farai Chideya
The road not taken by South Africa’s neighbor makes Mandela’s gift all the more remarkable.
John Nichols
December 06, 2013
Beloved former South African president Nelson Mandela left a legacy of union support and solidarity with organized labor.
by Philip Gourevitch
At Robben Island Prison, a former leper colony and animal-quarantine station off Cape Town, Nelson Mandela—Prisoner 466/64—was kept by South Africa’s white-supremacist regime for eighteen years in an eight-foot-by-seven-foot cell.
by Danny Schechter
What’s the difference between a liberation movement and a band of terrorists? The simple answer . . . is point of view. Consider the African National Congress (ANC).
Nelson Mandela, who died yesterday at age 95, was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary who served as President of South Africa from 1994-1999.
By Jeremy Daw
Eighty years ago, Congress made one of its smartest decisions in the entire history of US drug policy and brought Prohibition to an end.
by Kumi Naidoo
Nelson Mandela was never really a prisoner, but a free man always, and now, forever. As a South African, a comrade in the struggle to liberate my homeland from the evil of apartheid and a citizen of the world, my heart is heavy today.
By Kiran Moodley
I am too young to remember February 11, 1990, the day when Nelson Mandela left Victor Verster Prison after spending a total of 27 years behind bars.
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