The New York auction house that was planning to sell several dozen of Nelson Mandela’s personal belongings next month suspended the event after a South African government agency filed court papers seeking to force the return of the items. On Monday, the website that had displayed the items, including Mr. Mandela’s colorful “Madiba” shirts and […]
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Auction of Nelson Mandela Items Set After Court Fight With Government
Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter is moving forward with an auction next month of the former president’s personal belongings after a two-year legal battle with the South African government, which had tried to block such a sale saying the items were artifacts of national heritage. The proposed sale had drawn attention when it was announced in […]
Read More‘More Than Just Rugby’: Championship Generates Harmony in South Africa
The towering hall thundered with the euphoria of a nation where everyone seemed, for the moment, to have left their differences behind. The celebrants spoke Zulu, Sotho, Tswana, Afrikaans and English. They were Black and white, young and old, mining company managers and restaurant waitresses. They sang and danced together to songs blasting from speakers. […]
Read MoreMangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu Nationalist and a Mandela Rival, Dies at 95
Controlling the police, the legislature, the courts and other levers of power, he repressed anti-apartheid groups with policies critics said were remarkably like those of Pretoria: ordering arrests, disrupting protests, dispensing patronage and denying jobs to dissenters. Many Black intellectuals and activists fled KwaZulu, the collection of 40 tribal homelands scattered across the former Natal […]
Read MoreMangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu Nationalist and a Mandela Rival, Dies at 98
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, the Zulu nationalist who positioned himself as Nelson Mandela’s most powerful Black rival in South Africa’s tortuous transformation from a white segregationist society to a multiracial democracy in the 1990s, died Saturday. He was 95. Mr. Buthelezi’s death was announced in a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. “Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi […]
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