The suggestion that Mandela single-handedly achieved democracy is as intellectually threadbare as the charge that he was centrally responsible for the failure to transform South Africa.
His appearance on behalf of the families of mine workers shot by the police at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry was just one of his efforts...
Mandela left at the right time in 1999, when the country still seemed in a healthy state, after which he consolidated his international reputation.
After years of inaction due to corruption and controversy, the Free State home of Winnie Madikizela Mandela is finally being turned into a museum.
It is 100 years after the birth of Nelson Mandela, and his iconic image is everywhere. Is Mandela the Symbol in danger of becoming Mandela the...
