by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Apr 7, 2017 | World
More than 30,000 people rallied in cities across South Africa against President Jacob Zuma as the march in Johannesburg turned violent when demonstrators clashed with police. The protesters are demanding that Zuma quit after a cabinet reshuffle triggered the latest...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 16, 2016 | World
London- An article in the “Sunday Times” reported that a tip from a CIA spy to authorities led to Nelson Mandela’s 1962 arrest, beginning the leader’s 27 years behind bars. The newspaper cited comments reportedly made by Donald Rickard, a former U.S....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 3, 2014 | World
Cape Town, Reuters—Mamphela Ramphele, former partner of renowned anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko, decided on Monday not to run for the opposition Democratic Alliance in South Africa’s elections this year, only a week after saying she would. Ramphele had...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 1, 2013 | World
Johannesburg, Reuters—Anti-apartheid leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela returned to his home on Sunday where he will continue to receive intensive care after three months in hospital with a lung ailment. Mandela, 95, had spent 87 days in a...
