Much deeper social forces underlie the struggles within the governing ANC and society over the shape of the economy.
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Leaders go in and out of fashion, making statues built in their memory a tricky issue.
Several outstanding women were nominated, but Rainbow Murray, an adviser to the series, says the public vote showed how we’re still more inclined to recognise male achievement.
Wherever there is an ugly, unresolved injustice pulling at the fabric of a society, there is an opportunity to haul it out in public and deal with it through a truth commission.
The vision set out by Cyril Ramaphosa has the seeds for galvanising South Africans to get back on the right path. But it urgently needs a plan to make it happen.
Christian leaders played a very significant role in fighting apartheid. One of them, Peter Storey, tells in his autobiography what shaped his convictions.
The Algerian revolution had a profound effect on both Mandela and Fanon’s thinking about colonisation, oppression and freedom.
Twenty years after the final report of South Africa’s Truth Commission, dealing with the past will always remain “unfinished business”.
The desire to eulogise, as often appears to be the case in this exhibition, does not allow space for questions that might allow for a fuller explication of the nature of Mandela’s legacy and its relevance beyond South Africa.
Corporate interests undermine the British Council’s mission to build trust.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi carries extensive accountability for the sectarianism that characterised politics in South Africa before 1994.
He left an enduring legacy of embedding democracy and involving civil society in the pursuit of peace.
From the early 1980s, local governments in the UK began renaming streets, housing estates and community centres after Mandela as an act of protest.
Photographs tell the story of Nelson Mandela the humanist and take us into the settings that shaped his childhood.
Mandela did not make the decision to jettison Taiwan and recognise China. He adhered to a decision by the governing ANC.
Nelson Mandela’s release in 1990 was met by an outpouring of poetic celebration both within South Africa and globally.
Barack Obama is delivering the Nelson Mandela lecture in a changing world dominated by the often outrageous utterances of his successor, US President Donald Trump.
Mandela continues to serve as a rare example of a principled politician committed to forgiveness and reconciliation.
Drawing on Mandela’s legacy, Obama can help the world better understand the nature of threats to democracy.
Increasingly, young people across Africa are taking up Nelson Mandela’s challenge of working to improve the lives of ordinary people.
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Political Scientist, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of Public Affairs, Tshwane University of Technology
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Culture and Media department, Birkbeck, University of London
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Professor of Urban Governance, University of the Witwatersrand
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria., University of Pretoria
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Dundee
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Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa and Visiting professor and strategic advisor in Faculty of Humanities., University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Public Theology in the Department of Beliefs and Practices, Faculty of Theology, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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Distinguished Reserach Professor, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor and Head of Department of Political and Conflict Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Research fellow, University of the Free State
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Research Fellow New South Institute, Emeritus Professor at The Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
