Tag: Robben Island

  Book reveals new, surprising nuggets about Nelson Mandela’s last years in jail

In 1990 when Nelson Mandela stepped out of the prison of Robben Island, few could have predicted that apartheid would be dismantled within a few years, and South

Pacifists worldwide sigh with relief at the Russian Foreign Minister’s proposal to put the Syrian government’s arsenal of chemical weapons under international scrutiny, a solution initially but mildly

Lettre de La Reunion

At this moment, it is not quite clear whether the past South African president has moved out of impending danger to his life. Some time back, he was