Nelson Mandela mini-series planned for TV
By Sarah | January 10, 2012
BBC, 9 January 2012
A mini-series based on the life of Nelson Mandela is in the pipeline, with producers including the former South African president’s grandson.
Writers attached to the project include Nigel Williams, who wrote the 2005 Helen Mirren mini-series, Elizabeth I. Read the rest of this entry »
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Happy 93rd Birthday Nelson Mandela!
By Mark | July 18, 2011
18 July 2011 is Nelson’s Mandela’s 93rd Birthday. ACTSA, the successor to the Anti Apartheid Movement joins with many others in wishing him a happy birthday and a long, peaceful, continuing and incredibly well deserved retirement. Read the rest of this entry »
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‘It’s easier to overthrow a govt than to govern it’
By Campaigns | July 12, 2011
Mail and Guardian, 12 July
One of the few surviving Rivonia trialists — who stood alongside Nelson Mandela in the dock in 1963 — issued a subtle warning against autocracy and crumbling racial unity at the 48th anniversary of the trial in Sandton on Monday evening. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tributes to Kader Asmal
By Sarah | June 24, 2011
Kader Asmal, who died on June 22, 2011, aged 76, was founder and leader of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement and was a member of Nelson Mandela’s first democratically elected government of South Africa.
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Albertina Sisulu – London memorial service
By Sarah | June 7, 2011
7 June 2011
A memorial service will be held for Albertina Sisulu on Wednesday 15 June 11 am at St Martin in the Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 4JJ. All are welcome.
The South African High Commission has opened a book of condolences for Albertina, which is available for signing at South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, from 10am to 4pm until 15 June.
Read ACTSA’s tribute to Albertina Sisulu.
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Nelson Mandela’s law office reborn as museum
By Mark | May 10, 2011
Johannesburg leaders champion restoration of Chancellor House – home to South Africa’s first black law partnership, between Mandela and Oliver Tambo
Guardian, 4 May
The central Johannesburg building where Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo shared a law office was on the verge of collapse for years. Now, city officials hope it will be the focus of a renaissance. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nelson Mandela ‘responding well’ to care
By Mark | January 31, 2011
South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela is “responding well” to treatment, according to his doctor. Read the rest of this entry »
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Nelson Mandela discharged from hospital
By Mark | January 28, 2011
From BBC News On Line
South African former President Nelson Mandela has been discharged from a hospital where he spent two nights. Read the rest of this entry »
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Statement by the Acting President Kgalema Motlanthe on the health of former President Nelson Mandela
By Mark | January 28, 2011
“No need to panic”
January 27, 2011
There has been mounting concern about the health of the former President Nelson Mandela. We wish to confirm that Dr Mandela is in Milpark Hospital undergoing a few specialised tests and investigations. Given the medical history of our former President, his health over the last few years and his age, these tests are necessary in order to provide optimal health care. Read the rest of this entry »
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Youth and Student Delegation 2010: Constitution Hill and COSATU
By admin | October 5, 2010
Wednesday, 8th September, Beshlie Paul
Visiting the national heritage site of Constitution Hill, it becomes plain to see how South Africans’ have transformed a brutal history into a beacon of hope for a the nation’s future. Our first stop was to visit the site of the old prison, Number Four, where great legends such as Mandela and Ghandi were imprisoned. Despite the relative dilapidation, to witness such conditions could not fail to make a mark on one’s soul. The remnants of the prison, particularly the cell with bars (where difficult prisoners were hosed with water and left, rain or shine, summer or winter) and the lashing chair (last used in 1983) illustrate levels of institutionalised cruelty that belong firmly in the past. White and black and coloured prisoners were kept separate and again, as at Robben Island, had differing conditions in which they existed. Even the workers in the prison experienced different conditions; black workers remember feeling more like prisoners than free men. Read the rest of this entry »
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