May 07 South Africans head to election polls, 20 years after end of apartheid By Anya van Wagtendonk South Africans take to the polls Wednesday for national elections, 20 years after Nelson Mandela’s historic election as president marked the end of apartheid. Mandela’s party, the African National Congress, has been in power ever since, and analysts are predicting… Continue reading
Apr 20 Remembering ‘the day Nelson Mandela became Nelson Mandela’ By Kristin Miller Sunday marks the 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's statement to the South African Supreme Court at his trial on charges of sabotage. Like other famous speeches it now has a shorthand reference -- it's the "an ideal for which I… Continue reading
Apr 07 Watch News Wrap: Flight 370 search follows promising pings By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, there were cautious hopes of finding the missing Flight 370 aircraft when a ship picked up pings during its trawl of the southern Indian Ocean. Also, Oscar Pistorius took the stand to testify in his… Continue watching
Mar 29 Watch South African opera singers’ lives documented in new film By PBS News Hour Some of the world’s best young opera singers hail from the impoverished black townships of South Africa. Three of those singers are now in the United States to perform at the American Documentary Film Festival, where a documentary about their… Continue watching
Feb 16 What we’re watching Sunday By Kayla Ruble PBS NewsHour is following the news of the day, from trapped miners in South Africa to amnesty offers in Ukraine. Continue reading
Dec 16 Fake Mandela memorial interpreter reportedly burned men to death A video still from Nelson Mandela's memorial service shows Thamsanqa Jantjie on the right. The fake sign language interpreter at last week's Nelson Mandela memorial was reportedly among a group that burned two men to death in 2003. Continue reading
Dec 15 Watch Sunday, December 15, 2013 South Africa without Mandela, surveillance changes, and living in the cash economy. Continue watching
Dec 15 Watch Envisioning a South Africa without Mandela Now that Nelson Mandela has been buried what lies ahead for South Africa? Marcus Mabry, editor at large for the New York Times and formerly Newsweek's Johannesburg Bureau Chief on what South Africa will be like without Mandela. Continue watching
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Dec 10 Watch American scholar recalls honoring Nelson Mandela with a quilt of connection American scholar recalls honoring Nelson Mandela with a quilt of connection… Continue watching