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Nelson Mandela, left, and his wife Winnie, raise clenched fists as they walk hand-in-hand from the Victor Verster prison near Cape Town, South Africa on Feb. 11, 1990.

‘Winnie and Nelson’: A new book explores a fraught political partnership

Conflict & Justice

Author Jonny Steinberg’s new book, “Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage,” explores the complex relationship between Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, two of the world’s best-known freedom fighters. Steinberg joined The World’s host Marco Werman to discuss the fraught political partnership of these iconic revolutionaries.

Yewande Omotoso

Yewande Omotoso’s ‘The Woman Next Door’

Arts
The host of The Daily Show Trevor Noah's new memoir is called Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.

Trevor Noah gets personal

Books
Joe Stewart and Patricia Bayonne-Johnson, both descendants of people sold as slaves by Georgetown University, visit the school on September 1, 2016 in Washington, D.C.

Lessons from South Africa as Georgetown attempts reparations for slavery

Justice
Students march at Stellenbosch University earlier this year

A South African university sheds the language of apartheid

Education
South Africa's Trevor Noah will be the new host of "The Daily Show," the popular Comedy Central show currently hosted by Jon Stewart.

Joyous South Africans pop champagne to celebrate Trevor Noah’s taking over for Jon Stewart

Culture

The 31-year-old comic has faced bigger challenges than running “The Daily Show.” One of them: growing up mixed-race in apartheid-era South Africa. Sometimes, he says, “I felt like a bag of weed.”

Hugh Masekela and Vusi Mahlasela on stage October 14, 2014, at Carnegie Hall in New York.

‘The Voice’ of South Africa celebrates 20 years of freedom

Music

South Africa’s Vusi Mahlasela and Hugh Masekela are in the midst of a US tour they’re calling 20 Years of Freedom. The music celebrates 20 years since the start of democracy in South Africa and the official end of apartheid.

Sheryl Ozinsky, one of the founders of the Oranjezicht City Farm in Cape Town, selling produce at the Saturday market.

‘You can’t be a sissy to live in Africa’

Development

When Sheryl Ozinsky was attacked at gunpoint in her own home in a rich neighborhood in Cape Town, her whole life changed. Today, she’s running a farm and market day to help people come out of their locked homes and build their community.

Nelson Mandela's former private assistant Zelda la Grange. Her memoir traces the 43-year-old's upbringing in an Afrikaans family that considered Mandela a terrorist to her improbable appointment to his office when he became president in 1994, and her clos

Here’s how a young white woman went from loving apartheid to being in Mandela’s inner circle

Global Politics

When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, Zelda la Grange had no idea who he was. In her Afrikaaner family, he was simply a “terrorist.” She was in her twenties and would soon become Mandela’s personal assistant, and later, a close friend.When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, Zelda la Grange had no idea who he was. In her Afrikaaner family, he was simply a “terrorist.” She was in her twenties and would soon become Mandela’s personal assistant, and later, a close friend.

Nelson Mandela, as a young man, before he gave his famous Rivonia speech

Why hearing Mandela’s Rivonia speech is so powerful. It’s not just the words, it’s the sounds behind them

Conflict & Justice

South Africa kept recordings of Nelson Mandela’s famous Rivonia speech. But no one could hear them because they were on dictabelts. And then South Africa’s last remaining dictaphone machine broke.

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