By By Louis Freedberg,
As a teenager growing up in Cape Town in the 1960s, a favorite weekend activity was climbing to the top of Table Mountain, the glorious promontory at the end of the African continent.
By By Louis Freedberg,
As a teenager growing up in Cape Town in the 1960s, a favorite weekend activity was climbing to the top of Table Mountain, the glorious promontory at the end of the African continent.
By Max Fisher
Nelson Mandela was already 45 years old when, on April 20, 1964, he gave the defining speech of the anti-Apartheid movement, from the dock of a Pretoria courtroom.
By BILL BERKOWITZ
Last night, it was difficult to cut through the fog of reaction from current day conservatives to the death of Nelson Mandela.
Although most black South Africans revere Mandela and his party for defeating apartheid, many are realizing that fighting inequality and achieving full citizenship will mean taking on the ANC.
by Elissa Curtis During the past two years, the photographer Krisanne Johnson has been documenting South African youth.
by Ayana Mathis Some other language is needed to describe Mandela, a hyper-language with which to eulogize him—in short, a poem.
by Hendrik Hertzberg Mandela has often been called the George Washington of his country. But he was also South Africa’s James Madison.
By David Weigel
Every major news event, no matter how sad or epochal, is transformed by the power of social media into a way to carp about politics. Some among us want people to stop doing that.
Nelson Mandela passed away on Dec. 5, 2013 in Johannesburg at the age of 95. Earlier this year, during Mandela’s illness, Eve Fairbanks prepared this assesment of his life and legacy.
If we turn the late South African leader into a nonthreatening moral icon, we’ll forget a key lesson from his life: America isn’t always a force for freedom.
Seldom, if ever, in the annals of human history have all the world’s nations paused on the same day to mourn the death of a political leader. December 5, 2013 was such a day.
by William Finnegan He led his beloved, tormented country from the howling darkness of apartheid to the promised land of democracy.