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.
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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.
Flags were being flown at half mast in several Caribbean countries as the region continues to mourn the death of the first black South African president and anti-apartheid icon, Nelson Mandela, who died at his home on Thursday night following a prolonged illness. He was 95.
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.
by Charlayne Hunter-Gault To the very end, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela remained South Africa’s Father of the Nation.
by Nadine Gordimer I met him in 1964, during the Rivonia Trial, and I was present when he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
by Joshua Rothman Over the years, The New Yorker has been lucky enough to chronicle glimpses of Mandela’s life.
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