Mandelas
That gathering (called the Turning Point Summit) follows a Gandhi King Mandela conference in South Africa last summer that convened youth activists, community leaders and others to advance new ways to apply the legacies of Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. — notably their use of nonviolent resistance against injustices of colonization, […]
Comment on this storyComment From the moment he saw her standing at a bus stop in the Black township of Soweto as he drove past in his two-tone, pastel-green Oldsmobile, Rolihlahla “Nelson” Mandela was besotted with Nomzamo Winifred Zanyiwe Madikizela. Never mind that he was 38 and she just 20, or . . .
MPR News host Angela Davis is heading to South Africa for an 11-day tour of the country. She will travel with a small group of public radio listeners from Minnesota and eight other states. They’ll visit historic sites in Johannesburg and Cape Town, and they’ll meet people who lived through apartheid, white people and non-white […]
This week, the world rightfully celebrates Nelson Mandela—a rare leader and a rarer human being. Not only did he have the singular willpower to unite the world behind the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, but he also had the moral fortitude to stay true to his morals and ideals while doing so. But Mandela, […]
The first democratically-elected President of South Africa, and the country’s first Black leader, died in December 2013 at age 95. The annual commemoration on 18 July, his birthday, recognizes his contribution to the culture of peace and freedom. Mr. Mandela – affectionately known as “Madiba”, his Xhosa clan name – fought against the racist apartheid […]
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