South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC), now struggling with internal conflicts, started out as an elite black group. The liberation movement took power in 1994, four years after the lifting of a four-decade ban linked to its fight against the white minority rule of apartheid. – 1912: On January 8, influential blacks found the … Read more
The gloves are off in South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) and internal squabbles are now being played out in public. Today the ANC Youth League launched a scathing attack on the party’s and country’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa. The youth wing is backing President Jacob Zuma, who is facing allegations of corruption. Njabulo … Read more
Rolihlahla Mandela was born into the Madiba clan in Mvezo, Transkei, on July 18, 1918, to Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Nkosi Mphakanyiswa Gadla Mandela, principal counsellor to the Acting King of the Thembu people, Jongintaba Dalindyebo. His father died when he was a child and the young Rolihlahla became a ward of Jongintaba at the Great … Read more