Nelson Mandela
The joyful Soweto choir that even Nelson Mandela wanted to join
The three-time Grammy Award winners are back with a concert about the struggle against apartheid.
- by Garry Maddox
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‘A very serious mistake’: What Mandela regretted during his first visit to Australia
As the statesman’s physician, Dr Peter Friedland thought he understood much about Nelson Mandela. Then Friedland announced he was moving to Australia ...
- by Jill Margo
Naomi Campbell: ‘Victim is not in my vocab. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me’
She may have struggled in the past, but the 54-year-old supermodel bristles at any attempt to paint her as an underdog.
- by Alice Thomson
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World elections
Mandela’s party loses majority for the first time in 30 years
South Africa’s election results put it on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.
- by Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome
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Tele’s Mandela hit on Meghan and Harry backfires
Murdoch empire’s attack on former royal couple draws backlash from the Mandela family.
- by Noel Towell
Opinion
Global warming
Nelson Mandela is my grandfather. His courage can guide our climate battle
Moral challenges require leaders who can provide a moral framework that political goals can leverage. Except now we need it on a global scale.
- by Ndileka Mandela
From the Archives, 1990: Mandela’s appeal to Melbourne
Nelson Mandela ended his historic Australian tour with an appeal for help to build a new South African social and political system during a speech to a cheering crowd of about 6000 at the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre
- by Kevin Childs and John Masanauskus
Opinion
Meghan Markle
Is it okay to switch sides in the Megxit wars? Asking for a friend
With sadness, many of us have moved to the same side of the dispute as Piers Morgan – never a comfortable position to find oneself in.
- by Jacqueline Maley
Museum raises $174,000 from auction of Nelson Mandela’s arrest-warrant NFT
Mandela, the anti-apartheid activist who emerged from 27 years in prison to become South Africa’s first black president, was arrested in 1962 for conspiring to overthrow the white-minority government.
- by Loni Prinsloo
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Andrew Abdo
Long walk to rugby league: How his brother’s death and Mandela helped shape Andrew Abdo
The easy assumption is the NRL chief executive isn’t his own man, but a life growing up in apartheid South Africa prepared him for Australian sport’s toughest job.
- by Andrew Webster
Editorial
South Africa
Tutu’s moral precision and bravery disarmed the powerful
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Monday aged 90, devoted his life to truth-telling, compassion and reconciliation.
- The Herald's View
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