Category Archives: ANC

Pallo Jordan, Mandela understood the complexities of his role

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/12/19/mandela-understood-the-complexities-of-his-role

Carol Paton, Zuma entrenched as leader but ANC faces flagging support

http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/politics/2013/12/19/news-analysis-zuma-is-entrenched-as-leader-but-anc-faces-flagging-support

Nomboniso Gasa: Eloquent silences. Critique of National Development Plan (NDP) from gender and cultural perspective

Ahmed Kathrada’s beautiful tribute to Mandela

http://www.iol.co.za/news/kathrada-s-full-tribute-to-mandela-1.1622835#.Uq3Lq6XH1SU

CIA involvement in Mandela arrest in 1962

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/12/13/one_of_our_greatest_coups_the

Thabo Mbeki on Jacob Zuma, and power and corruption in South Africa

http://www.channel4.com/news/thabo-mbeki-jacob-zuma-south-africa-power-corruption-people?fb_action_ids=10201669984683684&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B479113792207333%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.recommends%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

Raymond Suttner, On Mandela’s models of masculinity

The youth can take a leaf out of the book of a man in touch with his masculinity

Percy Zvomuya, The Day Zuma lost control of the party

http://africasacountry.com/the-day-zuma-lost-control-of-the-party/

Fake sign language person at Mandela memorial may have read the meaning of proceedings best, by Richard Poplak

http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2013-12-12-fog-donkey-the-only-honest-man-in-a-stadium-of-fools/#.Uqnj76XH1SX

Raymond Suttner interview on Mandela on SABC3 (starts 12-13th minute of video)

Carol Paton on booing of Zuma at Mandela memorial

http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/columnists/2013/12/12/boo-from-the-blue-lifts-veil-on-new-political-culture-in-anc

When Mandela gave de Klerk a dressing down in the public negotiations forum

Mandela rebukes de Klerk, saying that even from an illegitimate regime one expects some semblance of integrity

http://www.sahistory.org.za/archive/response-nelson-mandela-president-african-national-congress-speech-state-president-f-w-de-kl

His Day is Done. A tribute poem to Nelson Mandela by Maya Angelou

Raymond Suttner, Mandela puts apartheid on trial, 1962 and Rivonia trials

When Mandela was captured in 1962 the police did not know that he had been overseas for military training and that he was Commander in Chief of the recently formed Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the nation, (MK).
http://www.polity.org.za/article/mandela-on-trial-its-meaning-for-us-today-2013-12-09

Raymond Suttner on the slow development of the young Nelson Mandela towards political consciousness

‘I was not born with a hunger to be free,’ Nelson Mandela writes in his autobiography. He immediately explains ‘I was born free-free in every way that I could know.

 

 

http://www.polity.org.za/article/nelson-mandela-becoming-a-freedom-fighter-2013-12-09

Pallo Jordan pays tribute to Nelson Mandela

http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/negotiator-who-outmanoeuvred-pw-1.1618656#.UqSWPqXH1SU

Professsor Philip Bonner reflects on Mandela’s life in video

Zakes Mda, Contradictions of Nelson Mandela

Raymond Suttner, Johannesburg street traders (with permits) victory may seem small in larger scheme of things, but these days we should rejoice wherever rights triumph over arrogant power

The return of the traders (who held legal permits) to Johannesburg city centre after a constitutional court hearing has aroused considerable emotion Continue reading →