When I attended the lecture that she delivered at Wits University last month on the 20th anniversary of Dr Nelson Mandela's release from prison she spoke passionately about their time together. If I ...

It is the commitment to reconciliation between all South Africans that Nelson Mandela made in 1994 ... spending a year in solitary confinement at the Victor Verster prison. When he was released, he ...

By the time Nelson Mandela was freed from Victor Verster Prison in 1990, there was optimism about the future everywhere around me. This was the birth of a nation – the triumph over a system that had ...

I am deeply honoured, proud and humbled to be here with you today as we honour our beloved national hero and international icon, President Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. On the 18th of July, Madiba will ...

The result is wince-inducing and awkward. Here, for example, is Msimang on Winnie and Nelson Mandela as the latter walked free from Victor Verster prison: “…There you are, against the backdrop of the ...

As a consequence of President De Klerk turning his back on 350 years of South Africa's history, just 10 days before my lesser speech at the Durban Jewish Club, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor ...

Three of the eight Rivonia prisoners were released before and after 1989: Dennis Goldberg (1985), Govan Mbeki (1987) and Nelson Mandela ... explained Kathrada. Mandela was at the time transferred to ...

Earlier this week Politicsweb published an article by Professor Stephen Ellis on what appeared to be the recent release by the Nelson Mandela Foundation Centre of Memory of Nelson Mandela's 1975 ...

ANC leader believed his wife had divulged to her jealous lover the info that led to his Aug 1962 arrest A new book has revealed that Nelson Mandela believed ... at his house on the grounds of Victor ...

As a consequence of President De Klerk turning his back on 350 years of South Africa's history, just 10 days before my lesser speech at the Durban Jewish Club, Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor ...

In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested and ... attended the trial as an official observer and when Mandela was sentenced to five years in jail, he was adopted as a prisoner of conscience. While in ...

A Platteville Middle School and High School music teacher has been put on leave after being arrested for alleged child sex crimes in Alabama. Owen Strizic, 48, was jailed over the weekend in Elmore ...