JOHANNESBURG (AP) — U.S. President Barack Obama implored thousands gathered in a cold, rainy stadium and millions watching around the world on Tuesday to carry forward Nelson Mandela’s mission of erasing injustice and inequality.
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nelson Mandela transcends death at 95. Between blessing and benediction there is heart -broken sorrow. But this is joyful sadness. There is irony too.
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by Pippa Green On a chilly day in 1998, I received an urgent message from Nelson Mandela’s press aide. The President had been stung.
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LONDON (AP) — Winnie Mandela says she feels “very blessed” to have been with ex-husband Nelson Mandela when he died, describing how she sat by his bedside until he drew his last breath.
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President Obama addressed the memorial for former South African president Nelson Mandela; these are his remarks as prepared for delivery.
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He was loved and admired all over the world for helping to end apartheid and heal the scars of a divided nation.
But in his fight for total freedom, the liberation leader also devoted himself to another cause — the empowerment of women.
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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…
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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.
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Farai Chideya
The road not taken by South Africa’s neighbor makes Mandela’s gift all the more remarkable.
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John Nichols
December 06, 2013
Beloved former South African president Nelson Mandela left a legacy of union support and solidarity with organized labor.