If the architects of the Constitution could do it all over again, they might constrain the powers of the executive and make public institutions stronger. “The single biggest single problem, I think, is the over-concentration of power in the executive and in the hands of the presidents in the Constitution,”[…]
Monday marks exactly three years since the death of former president Nelson Mandela. Mandela, who was the first president of South Africa to be elected in a fully democratic election, died at the age of 95 on December 5, 2013. Msunduzi Municipality Mayor Themba Njilo said he still regards Mandela[…]
Microsoft founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said that obstacles in the path of Africa’s youth needed to be cleared so that they can drive the future of the continent. Gates was delivering the Nelson Mandela memorial lecture at the University of Pretoria on Sunday night. The theme of the[…]
A tip from a CIA spy to authorities in apartheid-era South Africa led to Nelson Mandela’s arrest, beginning the leader’s 27 years behind bars, a report said on Sunday. Donald Rickard, a former US vice-consul in Durban and CIA operative, told British film director John Irvin that he had been[…]
The City of Johannesburg will hand over a 6 meter Nelson Mandela statue to the people of Palestine on Tuesday. Mayor of the City of Johannesburg Parks Tau, is currently in Palestine for the unveiling of the monumental statue of the former President of the Republic of South Africa and global[…]
Lest we forget… 11 February 1990. Heady days they were. What with De Klerk’s sudden capitulation and the unbanning of the anti-apartheid movement. They were moments to cherish; it was history being made, and were we part of that history – as journalists were we recording it, we were documenting[…]
Cape Town has been buzzing with interest in the news that Mandla Mandela wed Rabia Clarke in an Islamic ceremony over the weekend. Mandla is the grandson of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. Speaking to VOC on Monday, Shaykh Ebrahim Gabriels, who performed the nikah, said it was a momentous occasion.[…]
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa used the platform of the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ (Cosatu) 30th Anniversary to rebuke Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema for his utterances that Nelson Mandela was a sell-out. Malema made the comments, while addressing the Oxford Union in the United Kingdom, saying that[…]
South Africans dare not fail former president Nelson Mandela’s legacy, his grandson has said. Nkosi Mandla Mandela, reflecting on the life of the former African National Congress leader and the first democratic president in South Africa, said it was rare for a soul to touch the entire human race in[…]
EFF leader Julius Malema says he does not believe late former president Nelson Mandela was a sell-out, however he stands by the fact that he made compromises. Malema was explaining the statements which he made while addressing the Oxford Union in the United Kingdom. “We must say a collective of[…]
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