Tag: Nelson Mandela
30th anniversary of freedom: South Africa between disappointment and optimism – politics
Nelson Mandela was a man with a sense of symbolism. To cast his vote in South Africa’s first free elections on April 27, 1994 – the elections from which he…
South Africa reopens investigation into mysterious killings of anti-apartheid activists
This was a promise Nelson Mandela made when he was elected in 1994. His Truth and Reconciliation Commission offered amnesty to anyone who held accountable for their crimes. This commission,…
Peter Magubane, South African photographer and chronicler of apartheid, has died
Black South African photojournalist Peter Magubane, who for decades chronicled the violence of the racist apartheid regime, including the 1976 Soweto student uprising, died Monday at the age of 91,…
“The competition is over. I want to be involved”, Théo Curin and Ismaël Khelifa on the road to Madiba
Thirty kilometers of swimming off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, around Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years, followed by a hundred bicycle terminals and…
Zulu king dies at 95 – politics
Most of the protagonists of the South African freedom struggle are no longer alive. Mangosuthu “Gatsha” Buthelezi, one of the last personalities of this time, has died. The Zulu chief…
A visit to the jazz legend Abdullah Ibrahim – culture
Of Andrian Kreye “The principle of the universe is in every mountain.” Actually, one only wanted to know why Abdullah Ibrahim, as a South African and former New York exile,…
A work of art including a precious stone causes a sensation at the Nuremberg train station. – Bavaria
The southern part of Nuremberg has an ambivalent reputation. A colorful, a shimmering, a really metropolitan district, say some. Visually it takes getting used to, sometimes precarious, untidy, say others.…