Farewell “Madiba” – The Great World Icon
The news of the sudden demise of the former South African President, Nelson Mandela “Madiba” on Thursday 5th December 2013 vibrated around the entire world like an earthquake or tsunami phenomenon.
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Mandela drew last breath and rested, says ex-wife Winnie
Nelson Mandela “drew his last breath and just rested”, his ex-wife Winnie said Thursday in her first public comments on his death.
Read More 100 world leaders in South Africa for Mandela funeral
South Africa struggled Monday to meet the unprecedented logistical challenge of hosting close to 100 world leaders flying in from every corner of the globe for the state funeral of freedom icon Nelson Mandela.
Read More A chequered history of ill health
By Sola Ogundipe IN January 2013, when Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Surgeon General Vejaynand Ramlakan addressed a media briefing on the state of health of Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former South African President, Nelson Mandela, the entire world held its breath – and for good reason. For the third time in four months,
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Mandela’s politics: The long walk ends
IF your forefathers were the owners of the land and today your people, who are treated as the lowest race are squatters banished to marginal lands which constitute less than 30 per cent of your territory and you need a pass to leave your enclave and visit other areas what would you do?
Read More How Mbazulike Amaechi hid Mandela from apartheid regime in Nigeria
ONE of the few surviving nationalists and former Minister of Aviation in the first republic, Chief Mbazulike Amaechi has revealed how he hid the foremost South African nationalist and former president of South Africa, Chief Nelson Mandela for six months in Nigeria to evade his arrest by officials of the apartheid regime in that country.
Read More Mandela: From Apartheid comes lyrics of Protest
ONE of the legacies that apartheid gave to Africa is the canon known to the literary world today as protest literature or literature of pains. This was an imaginative response by different strata of South African writers community to the challenges of race politics that was practiced by the ruling dominant white minority in the hey days of apartheid.
Read More Mandela: His Foot prints
Quotable quote: I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended – Nelson Mandela
Read More Mandela, the lawyer and his legal battles
THE South African activist and former president Nelson Mandela (1918-) helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights.
Read More South Africa urges Nigerians to pray for Nelson Mandela
Amb. Mokgethi Monaisa, Consul-General of the South African High Commission in Nigeria, on Sunday urged Nigerians to join in prayers for former South African President, Dr Nelson Mandela’s quick recovery.
Read More Tutu pays tribute to Mandela after hospital visit
A day after turning 95, Nelson Mandela was Friday visited by fellow peace laureate, archbishop Desmond Tutu, who praised him for continuing to inspire the world even from his sickbed.
Read More Nelson Mandela Day: Community service is best tribute – UN
The Secretary General of United Nations, Mr Ban Ki-Moon, Thursday said the best tribute Nigerians and people all over the world can pay Nelson Mandela is to devote at least 67 minutes of their time to community service in marking the Nelson Mandela International Day.
Read More Obama pays tribute as ailing Mandela turns 95
US President Barack Obama paid warm tribute to South Africa’s Nelson Mandela for his 95th birthday on Thursday, which the anti-apartheid icon will spend in hospital recovering from a lung infection.
Read More A Global Garden for Mandela in Nigeria
The whole wide world is stark awake, day and night, waiting for the Mandela hour. But there’s no escaping the fact that even in life or death Mandela trumps all. It is indeed with bated breath that the global village looks ahead to the great one’s 95th birthday on July 18. Of course that date has been universally fixed as Nelson Mandela International Day, or Mandela Day for short.
Read More Mandela’s wife says now ‘less anxious’ about his health
Graca Machel, the wife of ailing South African icon Nelson Mandela, said she was less anxious about his condition Friday, five weeks after he was admitted to hospital.
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