Dignitaries, veterans, politicians, family members and people around the country gathered on Friday to commemorate the first anniversary of former president Nelson Mandela’s death. As part of the festivities, several dignitaries and members of the Mandela family laid wreaths at his statue at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Led by[…]
Dignitaries, veterans, politicians, family members and people around the country gathered on Friday to commemorate the first anniversary of former president Nelson Mandela’s death. As part of the festivities, several dignitaries and members of the Mandela family laid wreaths at his statue at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Led by[…]
Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela and the late statesman’s wife Graca Machel were among dignitaries arriving at the Union Buildings in Pretoria to commemorate his death on Friday. Mandla arrived after 7.30am and greeted other guests seated in a marquee erected in front of Mandela’s enormous statue. Struggle veteran and[…]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s lawyers confirmed that they had filed papers in court on Tuesday challenging the estate of former president Nelson Mandela, seeking the rights to his home in Qunu, Eastern Cape. “The papers have been filed in the Mthatha High Court,” her attorney Mvuzo Notyesi said. “It has been sent[…]
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is challenging the estate of former president Nelson Mandela, seeking the rights to his home in Qunu, Eastern Cape, the Daily Dispatch reported on Tuesday. Madikizela-Mandela’s lawyer Mvuyo Notyesi reportedly wrote to deputy chief justice Dikgang Moseneke, a co-executor of the will, two weeks ago. In the letter Notyesi[…]
VOC News joined Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Albert Fritz at the GH Starck Centre for the Aged in Hanover Park to do a blanket drive as part of the 67-minute initiative for Mandela Day. Fritz and a team from the Department of Social Development (DSD) spent their hour[…]
Former president Nelson Mandela is looking down from heaven at the things people are doing to celebrate his legacy, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said in Cape Town on Friday. Wearing a black jacket over his purple robes at the V&A Waterfront, Tutu explained to bystanders that God had called Mandela[…]
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