The president could have been the second president of the ANC and the country after Mandela. He made it in December 2017 — but now he leads with some corrupt people he dislikes
Posts tagged as “Mandela”
I’ve been thinking about Trevor Noah’s op-ed in the New York Times, and its angry critiques, since the Day of Reconciliation in South Africa on…
By Sebenzile Nkosi Africans have fought long and hard for independence from colonial rule. Leaders of the struggle have been hailed for their self-sacrifice, many…
Recently, I saw a Facebook post about an event where the keynote speech was titled “What would Mandela do?” The speech, unsurprisingly, criticised the recent…
By Melo Magolego One uneventful day on a busy street in Bophuthatswana there lay, riddled with bullets, the body of my grandfather. My paternal grandfather…
In tribute to Mandela’s vision for a world that is rid of racism, I have created this list of nine things white people can do…
It is difficult to come to terms with the news that the world’s most revered statesman and human-rights activist is gone. As is so often…
I posted this on my Facebook profile, today. I figured I would share it widely on this worst of days. He held my hand for…
The African National Congress probably couldn’t care less about the chatter that Nelson Mandela is now a medical zombie, alive but not living. It is…