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☆ Nelson Mandela’s party has been dealt a seismic election blow. Where does it leave South Africa?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Sarah Dean | David Mckenzie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party is set to fall short of a majority for the first time in 30 years after national elections this week, marking the biggest political shift in the country since the end of apartheid. With results in from 90% of voting districts as of 5.10pm ET, support for the ANC was at 41.04%. The official opposition party, the centrist Democratic Alliance (DA), had 21.72% of the vote. Fed-up voters dealt the party of Nelson Mandela a seismic blow at the polls after years of corruption scandals and economic mismanagement. As a result, the ANC will be forced to form a coalition to stay in government.

Persons: Zuma, Nelson Mandela Organizations: South Africa CNN, National Congress, ANC, Democratic Alliance, weSizwe Party, Fighters, Fed Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa

☆ South Africa has failed its Black majority. Nelson Mandela’s political heirs may pay the price
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Hanna Ziady | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

When South Africans vote Wednesday, an unhappy combination of rampant corruption, soaring joblessness, crippling power cuts and feeble economic growth will likely be top of mind. Black South Africans, who make up 81% of the population, are at the sharp end of this dire situation. ‘Elite enrichment’Under apartheid — and colonial rule before that — Black South Africans were violently oppressed and denied many basic human rights. Millions of South Africans still live in such informal settlements. “The poster child of this is the electricity sector.”For much of last year, South Africans were without power for at least some portion of the day.

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☆ The Deadly Prelude to South Africa’s First Free Elections
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-27 | by ( Joao Silva | Photographs | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Thirty years ago, Black South Africans voted for the first time as the country celebrated the monumental birth of a democracy. As I write this, South Africa is bathed in warm winter sunlight and South Africans are free. That day, April 27, 1994, changed the lives of everyone in the country. Those who hoped the bloodshed would derail democratic negotiations conveniently called it Black-on-Black violence. In that time, as the apartheid government slowly settled the terms of its dissolution with political leaders it had long sought to suppress, 14,000 people died violently.

Persons: Nelson Organizations: South Locations: South Africa

☆ South African Government Seeks to Halt Auction of Mandela Items
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Matt Stevens | More About Matt Stevens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The South African Heritage Resources Agency is seeking to prevent an auction of dozens of Nelson Mandela’s personal belongings, saying on Thursday that it has filed court papers to appeal a ruling that had allowed the sale of the items to go forward. Guernsey’s auction house in New York said this week that it planned to auction about 70 of Mr. Mandela’s items on Feb. 22 as part of a fund-raising effort to support the establishment of a memorial garden near where Mr. Mandela, the former South African president, is buried. South African officials had blocked an earlier effort to sell the items on the grounds that some of them are objects of national heritage. But the organizers of the planned sale, led by Mr. Mandela’s oldest daughter, Dr. Makaziwe Mandela, won a court judgment last month. In its ruling, a three-judge panel of the High Court in Pretoria found that the government’s claim to the items as heritage objects was “overbroad.”

Persons: Nelson, Mandela, Mandela’s, Makaziwe Mandela, ” Organizations: African Heritage Resources Agency, South Locations: New York, Pretoria

☆ Auction of Nelson Mandela Items Set After Court Fight With Government
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Matt Stevens | More About Matt Stevens | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

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 2021. South African officials balked, objecting in particular to the sale of a key to the Robben Island prison cell where Mr. Mandela was held. Proceeds from the auction are intended to finance a memorial garden honoring Mr. Mandela, who dedicated most of his life to emancipating South Africa from white minority rule, the organizers said. He died in 2013 at 95, 23 years after his release from prison and 19 years after he was elected president.

Persons: Nelson Mandela’s, Mandela Organizations: South Locations: South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa, Colombia and other countries that lost out in the global race for coronavirus vaccines are taking a more combative approach towards drugmakers and pushing back on policies that deny cheap treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV. The pills are especially important for South Africa, where TB killed more than 50,000 people in 2021, making it the country’s leading cause of death. In July, J&J’s patent on the drug expired in South Africa, but the company had it extended until 2027, enraging activists who accused it of profiteering. Back then, President Nelson Mandela’s government in South Africa eventually suspended patents to allow wider access to AIDS drugs. Bedaquiline was not rolled out as a standard treatment in South Africa until 2018.

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☆ Nelson Mandela: New book offers an intimate portrait of the South African leader
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Tom Page | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Yet a new book penned by his daughter aims to take a fresh perspective on the man behind the statesman. Published by maker of luxury tomes Rizzoli, “Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life” is a photographic account of the man and his family. In an email to CNN, Dr. Mandela said she wrote the book “so that people have a better understanding of who he was (and) what formed him as a human being. “I understood my father a bit better in terms of the sacrifices that he made,” Dr. Mandela said. “Mandela: In Honor of an Extraordinary Life” is published by Rizzoli and on sale in the US and UK now.

Persons: Nelson, “ Mandela, ”, Dr, Pumla Makaziwe Mandela, Evelyn Mase, Al Sharpton, Mandela, ” Dr, “ Tata ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Rizzoli Locations: South Africa, Johannesburg, Qunu, Eastern, Robben

☆ Siya Kolisi says South Africa’s title can unite country where ‘so much is going wrong’
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Captain Siya Kolisi said on Saturday that South Africa’s second consecutive Rugby World Cup title has the potential to unite the country, after he led the team to an enthralling 12-11 victory over New Zealand in the final. “There is so much going wrong in our country, we are the last line of defence,” Kolisi told broadcaster ITV Sport. Not just on the rugby field but in life in general,” added Kolisi. Siya Kolisi has led South Africa to two consecutive World Cup titles. The win maintained the country’s perfect record in Rugby World Cup finals, securing a record fourth win to make the Springboks the most successful country in the competition’s history.

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☆ Zoleka Mandela dies of cancer aged 43, family says
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-26 | by ( Sarah Dean | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —Nelson Mandela’s granddaughter Zoleka Mandela has died of cancer at the age of 43, a family spokesperson said in a statement Tuesday. “Zoleka passed away on the evening of Monday, September 25th, surrounded by friends and family,” the statement, shared on her official Instagram account, said. She documented her battle with cancer on the account. How do I tell them that this time around, I may not get to live my life as a survivor? Her activism also included road safety campaigns after her 13-year-old daughter, Zenani, was killed in a car crash in 2010.

Persons: South Africa CNN — Nelson, Zoleka Mandela, “ Zoleka, Nelson Mandela, Mandela, ”, Mum Winnie, Madiba Organizations: South Africa CNN, Nelson, Nelson Mandela Foundation, Foundation, Healthcare Locations: Johannesburg, South Africa

☆ Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu Nationalist and a Mandela Rival, Dies at 95
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-09 | by ( Robert D. Mcfadden | More About Robert D. Mcfadden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

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 on Saturday. His death was announced in a statement by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa. Proud, ambitious, descended from royalty and intolerant of criticism, Mr. Buthelezi was a hereditary chief of the Zulus, South Africa’s largest ethnic group. Like his battle-hardened ancestors, who had challenged colonial invaders in the 19th century, Mr. Buthelezi sometimes wore leopard skins and wielded assegai spears, but only in ritual war dances for political advantage. He was also the prime minister of KwaZulu, the homeland of six million Zulus, and the founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party, a Zulu political and cultural movement with 1.9 million members.

Persons: Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Nelson, Cyril Ramaphosa of, Buthelezi, ”, goh, de Klerk, Mandela Organizations: Zulu, Freedom Party Locations: South, Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, South Africa, KwaZulu, Zulu

CNN —Veteran apartheid-era South African politician and Zulu prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi has died aged 95, the country’s president announced Saturday. The Zulu chief, a controversial figure who had a seat on South Africa’s National Assembly and a long political career, led a movement that underwent deadly clashes with the African National Congress (ANC). Buthelezi and his liberation movement Inkatha ye Nkululeke ye Sizwe clashed with the African National Congress (ANC) over many years, particularly throughout the 1980s during rebellions against apartheid. He became a member of the Youth League of the ANC while studying at South African Native College (now the University of Fort Hare), but was expelled for his political activities. Buthelezi won a seat in the National Assembly, and was appointed minister of home affairs in ANC leader Nelson Mandela’s coalition government.

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