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Mandela drew last breath and rested, says ex-wife Winnie

On December 12, 20139:08 pmIn Mandela Watchby vanguard

Nelson Mandela “drew his last breath and just rested”, his ex-wife Winnie said Thursday in her first public comments on his death.

Farewell “Madiba” – The Great World Icon

On December 11, 20137:55 pmIn Mandela Watch, remembering mandelaby vanguard

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.

100 world leaders in South Africa for Mandela funeral

On December 9, 20137:29 pmIn Mandela Watch, Newsby vanguard

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.

A chequered history of ill health

On December 7, 201312:04 pmIn Mandela Watch, Special Reportby vanguard

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

On December 7, 20133:13 amIn Mandela Watch, remembering mandela, Special Reportby vanguard

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?

How Mbazulike Amaechi hid Mandela from apartheid regime in Nigeria

On December 7, 20132:08 amIn Mandela Watch, remembering mandela, Special Reportby vanguard

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.

Mandela: From Apartheid comes lyrics of Protest

On December 7, 20131:35 amIn Mandela Watch, Special Reportby vanguard

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.