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February 7, 2012

South Africa
Lessons Learned: Nelson Mandela’s Release from Prison

Nelson Mandela's release from prison has lessons for understanding international relations today.

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 1, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
South African Preoccupation with Nelson Mandela’s Health

This week, former president Nelson Mandela was briefly hospitalized for "a minor diagnostic procedure" and then released with a clean bill of health. He is staying at his house in Houghton, a suburb …

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Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

February 11, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa
Nelson Mandela Freed Twenty-Five Years Ago Today

In 1964, Nelson Mandela was convicted of sabotage in conjunction with the armed struggle against apartheid in the Rivonia Trial. He was sentenced to life in prison. His statement at his sentencing wa…

Mandela 25 Years Prison
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

February 27, 2020

South Africa
History's Verdict Thirty Years After South Africa's Mandela Freed

Thirty years after State President F.W. de Klerk ordered his release from Cape Town’s Victor Vorster Prison, Nelson Mandela’s reputation as a genuine hero of the twentieth century holds up. With F.W. de Klerk and others, Mandela led the successful transition with the ANC from apartheid to non-racial democracy, forestalling the race war that many thought was inevitable.

A tall man in a purple polo shirt puts his arms around the shoulders of a shorter woman in a white shirt as she holds his shoulder. They both look at the statue of Nelson Mandela, raising his hands and smiling, in a small crowd of people. The statue is flanked by two towers attached to building with roman columns.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 28, 2020

South Africa
Andrew Mlangeni, Mandela Ally and Anti-Apartheid Hero, Dies in South Africa

Andrew Mlangeni was the last living defendant of the 1963 Rivonia trial, which resulted in the sentencing of Andrew and ten others, among them, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and, most famously, Nelson Mandela.

Andrew Mlageni, an aged, bald man with glasses, sits at a dais. His name is on a lit-up placard in front of him, as is a thin microphone. He is speaking.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition