Nelson Mandela became a defendant in the so-called Rivonia treason trial because he helped found Spear of the Nation, the military wing of the ANC – here is his address from the dock on April…
Rian Malan | 16 August 2011 Rian Malan on the significance of the great statesman’s covert Communist party membership This is a story about Nelson Mandela, the world-famous “freedom fighter” and “democrat.” You’ll have to…
The Church Street bombing was a car bomb attack on 20 May 1983 by Umkhonto we Sizwe, the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC), in Pretoria. The bomb exploded on Church Street at 4:30pm…
The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle was not the saint we want him to be. The image of Nelson Mandela as a selfless, humble, freedom fighter turned cheerful, kindly old man, is well established in…
In real life, it wasn’t just Margaret Thatcher who branded Mandela a terrorist and resisted sanctions, or David Cameron who went on pro-apartheid lobby junkets. Almost the entire western establishment effectively backed the South African…
Thursday 08 June 1995 Cape Town – President Nelson Mandela yesterday defended his instruction to African National Congress guards last year to repel an Inkatha Freedom Party attack “even if they had to kill people”….
