South Africa remains anxious over the health of former President Nelson Mandela, who has “responded positively” to treatment for a lung infection during his third hospital visit in the last four months. The civil rights icon spent almost three weeks in hospital in December. Though an overnight checkup went well earlier this month, he has [...]
Global Icon Nelson Mandela Hospitalized, As World Holds Its Breath
December 9, 2012 | Posted by
After Nelson Mandela was hospitalized yesterday in Pretoria, South African President Jacob Zuma felt it necessary to issue a statement assuring South Africans and the rest of the world that Mandela, 94, would be fine and there was no cause for alarm. Such is the standing of the man his people like to call Madiba, [...]
Post-Apartheid South Africa Remains Racially Divided
December 6, 2012 | Posted by
The lingering stench of apartheidis never far away in South Africa, leading Kenneth Lukuko to wonder whether Cape Town is still the country’s most racist city in an essay contained in the SA reconciliation barometer survey published on Thursday. During Nelson Mandela’s presidency, he noted, “it was the only city in which he was met [...]
Alf Kumalo, South African Photographer Whose Images Helped End Apartheid, Dead at 82
October 22, 2012 | Posted by
South Africa – Renowned South African photographer Alf Kumalo, who made his name working for Drum Magazine has died in Johannesburg. He died in hospital on Sunday, suffering from renal failure. Former president Thabo Mbeki said he was saddened by Kumalo’s death. “Alf Kumalo was more than a documentary photojournalist. He was, above all, one [...]
‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ Photography Exhibition Explores the 50-Year Old Civil Rights Struggle
September 17, 2012 | Posted by
On view from September 14, 2012 – January 6, 2013 at the International Center of Photography, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life offers an unprecedented and comprehensive historical overview of the pictorial response to apartheid that has never been undertaken by any other museum. Through its images, this exhibition [...]
Huge Wage Gap Between Blacks and Whites Threatens to Tear South Africa Apart
September 4, 2012 | Posted by
Income inequality is threatening to tear apart the fragile democracy that South Africa has been living under for the past 18 years, as the gap between the income of blacks and whites continues to be enormous and foreboding. In South Africa, the wealthiest 10 percent of the population earn nearly 60 percent of the country’s [...]
South Africa Angers Israel with Policy on Occupied Palestinian Territories
August 24, 2012 | Posted by
The South African government has drawn the ire of Israel by declaring that goods made in Israel’s settlements—which are in violation of international law—will be labeled as being from the Occupied Palestinian Territories. While a spokesman for Israel’s Foreign Ministry called South Africa’s new policy “unacceptable” and “discrimination,” the South African government says the policy [...]
The World Says ‘Happy 94th Birthday’ to Nelson Mandela
July 18, 2012 | Posted by
Around the globe, schoolchildren, world leaders and everyday citizens are pausing today to honor the 94th birthday of Nelson Mandela, a global icon whom one child in South Africa called “the king of Africa.” Tributes to Mandela poured in from around the world to honor a special man. In South Africa, 12 million schoolchildren sang [...]
South Africa In Need of ‘Dramatic’ Wealth Redistribution
June 27, 2012 | Posted by
Eighteen years after the end of apartheid, South Africa President Jacob Zuma said the country was in need of a “dramatic shift” in the distribution of wealth, which is still largely in the hands of whites. While agreements on how much land and wealth whites could hold onto were crucial in the country’s much praised [...]
Former South African President FW De Klerk Must Retract Comments Defending Apartheid
May 12, 2012 | Posted by
Johannesburg – Former president FW de Klerk must retract comments he made in a CNN interview, the Council for the Advancement of the SA Constitution (Casac) said on Saturday. “Casac condemns in the strongest terms the reckless attempts by former president FW de Klerk to justify and defend the apartheid system,” it said. “The very [...]
