Showing posts with label Former South African President Nelson Mandela. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Former South African President Nelson Mandela. Show all posts

Friday, September 13, 2019

A Warning For Foreign Minister And People Of South Africa

By Femi Fani-Kayode
"I would appreciate them in helping us as well to address the belief our people have and the reality that there are many persons from Nigeria dealing in drugs in our country" Dr. Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South African Minister of International Relations.
Is this the sort of thing that ought to be said by the South African government when we are still in mourning and when we have not even buried our compatriots that were cruelly slain, bludgeoned to death and cut to pieces in the streets of South Africa?
* Femi Fani-Kayode
At a time when this irresponsible, insensitive, shameless, conflicted, self-hating, pitiful and mendacious creature that has been described as the foreign minister of South Africa should be apologizing to the Nigerian people for the mindless savagery and barbarity of her blood-crazed compatriots, she is pointing accusing fingers at their victims and the objects of their collective hate and seeking to demonise them. What have we done to deserve this? First, you kill us then you seek to justify it and demonize us!

Monday, April 2, 2018

Winnie Mandela Dies At 81

Mrs. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle and wife of the late former South African president, Mr. Nelson Mandela, is dead. She was 81.  

Her PA‚ Zodwa Zwane‚ confirmed the ant- apartheid struggle veteran’s death on Monday afternoon. She said the family would issue a statement later in the day.

Born in Bizana in the Eastern Cape in 1936‚ Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela-Mandela moved to Johannesburg to study social work after matriculating.
She met lawyer and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela in 1957 and they were married a year later.

Friday, February 23, 2018

Dark Cloud Over South Africa

By Charles Onunaiju
Following the desperate push to get him out of office and the eventual capitulation of former President Jacob Zuma to the intense pressure by his own party to quit, dark clouds hanging over the country since the December elective national conference of the ruling party, which narrowly produced Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa as the leader of the party has not and will not be clearing soon. 
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
and former President Jacob Zuma
Mr. Ramaphosa, former labour organiser, ANC top stalwart turned tycoon and now President of the Republic of South Africa has promised a new dawn, not only for his country but for Africa. Given that inaugural speeches in Africa by newly triumphant helmsmen are replete with such boisterous and optimistic rhetoric, it will be more reasonable to wait and see the magic wand that Mr. Ramaphosa wants to wield.