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Nelson Mandela

July 2024

  • Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

    ‘She is one of our heroines’: reviled, now revered, Winnie Mandela wins over young South Africa

    The legacy of the activist, ANC politician and wife of Nelson Mandela has growing appeal, despite her refusal to apologise for crimes

June 2024

  • Naomi Campbell in a glittery black sleeveless top

    ‘When you fall, you pick yourself up’: Naomi Campbell on her V&A exhibition

    London show illustrates 40-year career of first Black British model to front British Vogue, spanning fashion, culture and politics

May 2024

  • A man holding a papier-mache body, with photographers and one of the lions of Nelson's column in the background

    ‘Freedom was around the corner’: how UK activists helped the exiled ANC to defeat apartheid

    On the eve of a vital South African election, activists tell how, 30 years ago, London became the centre of the Anti-Apartheid Movement and a base for exiled African National Congress leaders
  • Alexandra township in Johannesburg is one of the most severely under-serviced townships in South Africa.

    ‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election

    Thirty years after the end of apartheid, corruption is rife, crime is high and the economy is a mess. The party of Mandela admits it ‘made mistakes’. But will the people forgive them?
  • Simon Tisdall

    The ANC has left South Africa a land of broken dreams. Its time seems over

    Simon Tisdall
    At this month’s elections, the party of Mandela should be judged on its dismal record over the past 30 years

April 2024

  • Nelson Mandela casts his vote in South Africa’s first all-race election,  Oshlange, black township near Durban, 27 April 1994.

    From the Guardian archive
    The day apartheid died: South Africa’s first free elections – archive, 1994

  • Groomed for a future of political respectability … Marwan Barghouti in a still from Tomorrow's Freedom.

    Tomorrow’s Freedom review – does this man know the way to peace in Israel and Palestine?

March 2024

  • Peter Hain

    Rishi Sunak’s government would ban the very boycotts that helped to end apartheid

    Peter Hain
    A bill now in the Lords is intended to protect Israel from any criticism. It goes further than Thatcher ever did when she tried to stop us protesting to free Nelson Mandela, says former government minister Peter Hain

February 2024

  • A young black protester with a big 'afro' hairstyle and a black bandana over her face holds a cardboard sign to the camera reading "I refuse to be silent"

    Opinion
    Gaza’s social media activists are a potent force for change in the fight against racism

    Kenneth Mohammed
    Do not dismiss the new breed of protesters: they are following in the grand tradition of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and Rosa Parks

January 2024

  • A display of former South African President Nelson Mandela

    Auction of Nelson Mandela’s belongings suspended after outcry from South Africa heritage agency

  • Peter Magubane photographing protests during the the State of Emergency

    ‘To fight with my camera, to kill apartheid’: Peter Magubane – a life in pictures

December 2023

  • Gordon Brown

    Moments of hope
    Nelson Mandela taught me this: hope survives wherever people come together

    Gordon Brown
    Even amid the despair that haunts our world, good can come out of evil. We need to believe that, for the sake of our future, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

November 2023

  • Tom Lodge.

    Other lives
    Tom Lodge obituary

    Other lives: Expert on South African politics who wrote a biography of Nelson Mandela

October 2023

  • Nick Stadlen, Nicholas Stadlen QC byline

    Sir Nicholas Stadlen obituary

    High court judge and stellar QC who delivered the longest speech in British legal history – and made a feted documentary in later life

September 2023

  • The outside of the Royal Society of Arts

    ‘Hypocritical’ Royal Society of Arts faces its first strike in 270 years

    Union anger over below-inflation pay offer of just 4%

May 2023

  • President Nelson Mandela, right, gives former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger a welcome hug, Johannesburg, April 1994.

    Kissinger at 100: Statesman or war criminal? His troubled legacy – in pictures

    First as US national security adviser, then as secretary of state, Henry Kissinger intervened around the world during the 1970s, shaping events in China, Africa and the Middle East, with consequences that reverberate today
  • Nelson Mandela and his then wife Winnie Mandela in February 1990

    Observer book of the week
    Winnie & Nelson by Jonny Steinberg; The Plot to Save South Africa by Justice Malala – review

    A beautiful and sad portrait of the Mandelas’ marriage of opposites is an insightful study of two huge characters, while a gripping and important book reveals how the ANC leader rescued his riven country from civil war
  • FW de Klerk holding a newspaper that reads 'It's yes', the result of the referendum to end apartheid

    There are lessons in South Africa’s historic referendum. We have the power to change Australia

    Sisonke Msimang
    The outcomes of the referendum to move away from apartheid were undeniably positive – voting Yes to the voice will reaffirm this spirit

April 2023

  • Photograph: Handout/Supplied

    The Audio Long Read
    The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa – podcast

    In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as ‘Africa’s Switzerland’. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern – and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today

March 2023

  • The long read
    The Ciskei experiment: a libertarian fantasy in apartheid South Africa

    The long read: In the 1980s, South African libertarians set up a deregulated zone that they sold to the world as ‘Africa’s Switzerland’. It was a sham, but with its clusters of sweatshops, it was very modern – and in some ways it anticipated the world we live in today
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