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.
President Obama addressed the memorial for former South African president Nelson Mandela; these are his remarks as prepared for delivery.
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.
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).
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