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A renowned political scientist, lawyer and diplomat, Professor Babafemi Badejo has clinched the prestigious Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award for 2025. The award was conferred on the ...
Patrons and staff have been evacuated due to a fire. Photo: Caxton Local Media A fire has been reported at Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, prompting an immediate evacuation of patrons and staff ...
At least 20 cars were stranded on the side of the M4/Settlers Highway in Nelson Mandela Bay on the morning of Friday 28 March after they all hit deep holes cut out by a contractor fixing the road.
The Award Committee of the 2025 Africa Annual Events and the University of Texas at Austin have conferred the prestigious Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award on Babafemi Badejo ...
The statues of Jan Christian Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Sir Robert Peel, Benjamin Disraeli, Millicent Fawcett, Earl of Derby and Viscount Palmerston were all defaced. 'F** rights' and a heart were ...
Speaking to her co-stars, she explained: 'I worked with Nelson Mandela after his release from prison so it would have been in 1989. 'I spent a fair amount of time with him and I kept ...
In 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested and charged with inciting workers to strike, and travelling without valid documents. One of our founders, lawyer Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, attended the trial as an ...
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...
FILE: A picture taken on 13 April 1986 shows Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, then-wife of South African president Nelson Mandela and anti-apartheid campaigner, addressing a meeting in Kagiso township.
It was here, he said, that Nelson Mandela toiled virtually every day for 13 years, digging up rock, some of which paved the road we were driving on. The sun was so relentless, the quarry so bright ...