To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of states and government, past and present; distinguished guests — it is a singular honor to be with you today, to celebrate a life like no other. To the people of South Africa — (applause) — people of […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda on Monday landed in Johannesburg, South Africa to pay final respects to former President and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. The first South Africa’s democratically elected black president died last Thursday after a long battle with lung complications. South Africa’s Foreign Affairs ministry has indicated 91 current heads of state and government […]
Malawi’s President Joyce Banda on Monday signed the Nelson Mandela Condolence Book at the South African High Commission in Lilongwe. She told reporters that she has always held ‘Madiba’ in high esteem “as the Greatest Son of Africa”. “There are many great lessons that we have learnt and can learn from our fallen statesman. One […]
The death of Nelson Mandela has provoked an outpouring of mourning, celebration, and commentary around the world that is unprecedented for an African leader. Glowing tributes have gushed from world leaders and major magazines and newspapers have carried special features on his extraordinary life and legacy. He has been showered with lavish praise as a […]
Malawi Government on Saturday declared three days of national mourning from Monday to Wednesday in respect of South Africa’s former president, the late Nelson Mandela. Mandela died on Thursday from lung illness. He was 95. Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) said the three days of national mourning were not a declaration of and […]
The Apartheid system made Tata Nelson Mandela a very angry young man and that was the image of Mandela most people had of this anti-apartheid icon. When he came out of jail after serving twenty seven years; we all got a man who had mellowed immensely and showed an imaginable forgiveness towards the white race […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has paid tribute to Nelson Mandela, stating that he was the ‘epitome of showing forgiveness’ which he learnt from him. Banda said she admired Mandela’s strength of forgiveness and restraint. “We are all shattered and shocked. My regret at the passing on of one of Africa’s greatest sons who fought against all forms […]
When, after 27 years, Nelson Mandela was finally released from prison, the world marveled at his generous spirit, even temperament, genteel manners, disarming wit, ready smile and lack of bitterness. Admirable as they were, those saintly virtues don’t begin to explain his political genius. Mandela was also cunning, iron-willed, bull-headed, contemptuous — and more embittered […]
The anti-apartheid hero was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in […]
Malawians have joined the world in paying their tributes to the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela, 95, after President Jacob Zuma had announced Mandela’s death just before midnight on Thursday. President Joyce Banda mourned Mandela saying she was deeply shocked to learn of the death of man she called “hero” and icon […]
The earth is covered with a dark cloud.Tears flows like Nile river in the chicks of mother Africa crying for the tree which provided shade in the days of hot sun and shelter in times of heavy rain. Authors can’t write the history of Africa without mentioning Nelson Mandela the man whose his death and […]
]The former South African president, Nelson Mandela, is seriously ill in hospital with a lung infection. The 94-year-old has been ill for some days but his condition deteriorated overnight. It is his fifth stay in hospital in two years. Keith Khoza, a spokesman for the ruling Africa National Congress (ANC), said it was time to […]
The wife of former South Africa’s President Graca Machel arrived in Malawi Thursday for a two-day official visit. Machel’s visit to Malawi is aimed at strengthening relationship between the Malawi Government and the Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS), which she is a co-founder. Immediately after her arrival in the Warm Heart of Africa, according […]
Mandela Institute for Development Studies (MINDS) has expressed interest to work with the Government of Malawi especially with President Joyce Banda as she makes plans of how to take Malawi to the next level. Graca Machel, wife to former South African president Nelson Mandela, who is a co-founder of the institute, made the assurances in South Africa […]