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The entrance of the Nelson Mandela Gateway to Robben Island at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town. Picture: Zunaid Ismael/Eyewitness News

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Court puts SAHRA heritage objects case against Nelson Mandela daughter on hold

By Bernadette Wicks

Earlier this year, South African Heritage Resources Agency - together with the Robben Island Museum and the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture - approached...

  • Anti-apartheid leader and African National Congress (ANC) member Nelson Mandela smiles as he poses during a photo session after his first press conference since his release from jail on 12 February 1990 in Cape Town. Picture: AFP.

    Court to hear urgent bid by Sahra to repatriate 30 objects linked to Mandela

    The objects and artefacts were allegedly illegally exported ahead of a since-cancelled auction by New York-based Guernsey’s to raise funds for a memorial garden in Qunu.

    a week ago
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    Eskom a poster child for where things went wrong after new SA's honeymoon period

    ETM Analytics' George Glynos reviews South Africa's economic growth over the last 28 years - on The Money Show

    19 days ago
  • FILE: ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa delivers the party's January 8 statement at the Old Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, Limpopo on 8 January 2022. Picture: @MYANC/Twitter

    YONELA DIKO: Ramaphosa's ANC: Are the good guys finally in charge?

    In a space of five years, the NEC, legislature caucuses, provinces and regions have been transformed into believers of the Ramaphosa leadership as both the leader ANC needs and the leader of our country's aspirations.

    40 days ago
  • Former President Nelson Mandela. Picture: Debbie Yazbek/Nelson Mandela Foundation

    NFT of Nelson Mandela's arrest warrant auctioned for R1.9 million

    South Africa's first democratic, black president was arrested on August 5, 1962, and later jailed for 27 years.

    50 days ago
  • President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking on Cape Town's City Hall balcony at the 30th-anniversary parade of the release of former president Nelson Mandela who was jailed for 27 years. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Parly’s new home: Notable events that took place at the City Hall

    The State of the Nation Address will take place there on Thursday, a day before the historic moment 32 years ago when Madiba made his first public speech from the balcony.

    97 days ago
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    Lightning strike destroys tourism building in Mandela's birthplace

    A fire ignited by a lightning strike has destroyed a tourism building in a village where former president Nelson Mandela was born, his family announced.

    127 days ago
  • Photo by John-Paul Henry on Unsplash

    Auction of Nelson Mandela’s Robben Island cell key scrapped: Department

    Auction house Guernsey agreed to suspend its intended auction of Mandela's items including the small metal key that would be returned to South Africa.

    128 days ago
  • FILE: Christo Brand, a former prison guard who guarded Nelson Mandela, talks about his experiences, on 16 April 2013, in Cape Town. Picture: RODGER BOSCH/AFP

    Christo Brand vows legal action over defamation related to Mandela cell key sale

    Brand, who was the former president's jailer in the 1980s, has come under fire for putting the key up for auction overseas.

    130 days ago
  • Former South African President Nelson Mandela (R) holding the Jules Rimet World cup beside   Archbishop Desmond Tutu, at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich. Picture: AFP

    Tutu & Mandela: Sometimes at odds but united against apartheid

    Tutu's death on Sunday at 90 plunged South Africa into mourning, eight years after the country lost Mandela, its iconic first black president, following a long battle with illness.

    138 days ago
  • Photo by John-Paul Henry on Unsplash

    Department threatens legal action over auction of Nelson Mandela’s cell key

    The Arts and Culture Department is threatening legal action against Guernsey that plans to sell-off the key that locked former president Nelson Mandela behind bars in Robben Island.

    143 days ago
  • Former president Nelson Mandela’s eldest grandson, Mandla Mandela. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    South Africa lost a father who served it with honour: Mandela says of De Klerk

    Mandla Mandela said he had personally witnessed the great relationship of dignified respect Madiba accorded him and has requested South Africa do the same.

    185 days ago
  • FW de Klerk delivers. Picture: JENNIFER BRUCE/AFP

    UK's Boris Johnson says De Klerk 'changed the course of history'

    "I am saddened by the death of FW de Klerk, a leader who changed the course of history by freeing Nelson Mandela and working alongside him to end apartheid and bring democracy to South Africa," Boris Johnson said in a statement.

    186 days ago
  • FILE: Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) President (left) and South Africa's last apartheid President Frederik de Klerk (right), shake hands on 10 December 1993 in Oslo after being awarded the Nobel Peace Prizes. Picture: AFP

    South Africa must reckon with FW de Klerk's legacy - Nelson Mandela Foundation

    "FW De Klerk will forever be linked to Nelson Mandela in the annals of South African history," The Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement on Thursday.

    186 days ago
  • The ANC's Nelson Mandela (R) and apartheid President FW De Klerk address the media on 2 May 1990 ahead of historic talks between ANC and the government. Picture: WALTER DHLADHLA/AFP

    GALLERY: FW de Klerk - SA's last apartheid president through the years

    South Africa's last apartheid president, FW de Klerk, has died at the age of 85. We look at his political career during the final days of apartheid and into the early years of South Africa's democratic era. Pictures: AFP

    186 days ago
  • FILE: Former Eastern Cape Health MEC Sidiswa Gomba. Picture: @healthecmec/Twitter

    Mandela funeral fraud case against Gomba, 13 others postponed to Jan 2022

    Along with 13 others, axed Eastern Cape Health MEC Sindiswa Gomba is charged with fraud, money laundering, the contravention of the Municipal Finance Management Act and corruption.

    222 days ago
  • FILE: Former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda Picture: AFP.

    Ex-ICC prosecutor Bensouda: July unrests highlights economic inequality

    Former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda was delivering the 19th Nelson Mandela Annual Visual Lecture on Wednesday.

    264 days ago
  • Alexandra community members cleaning up after days of looting that saw many shops and businesses vandalised. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    CYRIL RAMAPHOSA: Our democracy was rescued by the strong arms of the SA people

    In the wake of the violence and looting that rocked South Africa in recent weeks, President Cyril Ramaphosa praised South Africans for uniting in the face of a common threat.

    302 days ago
  • FILE: ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News

    Ramaphosa: We owe it to Mandela's legacy to remain steadfast in face of attacks

    African National Congress (ANC) president Cyril Ramaphosa said it was now clear that last week's looting and destruction of property was a deliberate coordinated and well-planned attack on the economy and people's livelihood.

    302 days ago
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