Tag: Apartheid
The Palestinian struggle today embodies the same fight for justice and freedom once waged against apartheid. At the 23rd Nelson Mandela Foundation Annual Conference in Johannesburg, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, drew parallels between the situation in Gaza and Nelson Mandela’s struggle against apartheid. She emphasized that the injustices […]
Mandela rose up against apartheid and called on all South Africans to join him. He spent his entire life fighting against racism and for freedom. Mandela is known worldwide for many things, particularly as a freedom fighter, political prisoner, and African nationalist. He believed in democracy as the most effective engine for achieving and eradicating […]
Several sites in South Africa associated with the country’s long and bloody anti-apartheid struggle have recently been added to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) World Heritage List. The system of institutionalized racial segregation came into being in South Africa following the Second World War. It was finally eradicated in the early […]
