Articles about Nelson Mandela
Roadmap to Equality, Issue 17, June 2011
18 June 11
Regional relevance: Regional
Welcome to the 17th edition of Roadmap to Equality! tracking progress toward the ratification and implementation and of the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development.
The most exciting gender achievement this month may very well be the legalisation of a 30% quota for women’s representation in Mauritius. After... [read more]
Albertina Sisulu - Liberation struggle icon
17 June 11
Albertina Sisulu, the South African liberation struggle icon who died at 92 last week, was the matriarch of a political family whose influence on South African life is widely felt.
Sisulu was co-president of the biggest internal anti-apartheid grouping of the 1980s, the United Democratic Front (UDF).
Her... [read more]
Senegal's Bineta Diop
10 May 11
TIME magazine has named Bineta Diop, Founder and Executive Director of Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS), to the 2011 TIME 100, the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Senegal's Diop has led numerous peace building initiatives in Africa with a focus on the protection of women during... [read more]
South Africa: Are we all free this Freedom Day?
20 April 11
Regional relevance: South Africa
To those who were not part of the struggle for freedom, you might not understand the painful joy that filled South Africans on 27 April 1994. It was like a butterfly setting free from its cocoon, struggling to be free so that it may experience the radiance of the sun on its colourful back. It was not easy but it was... [read more]
Rose Thamae, fondly known as Mum Rose
03 March 11
As we launch the Care Work Cluster, we salute the work done by Mum Rose in providing home-based care to those infected with HIV and AIDS within South Africa's Orange Farm community. She has also initiated a feeding programme for the young and a youth programme.
I am the founder of a community based organization... [read more]
I am the founder of a community based organization... [read more]
Gender Linked, Issue 11, October 2010
11 November 10 | (1) Comment
This is my first edition as the editor of Gender Linked, taking over from Mukayi. It's exciting yet challenging to be gender-linked and keeping you connected within the GL family! I had to borrow the quote from my hero Nelson Mandela. I think GL has good leadership - good head, good staff and good heart - with this... [read more]
Welcome to the October edition!
29 October 10
This is my first edition as the editor of Gender Linked, taking over from Mukayi. It's exciting yet challenging to be gender-linked and keeping you connected within the GL family! I had to borrow the quote from my hero Nelson Mandela. I think GL has good leadership - good head, good staff and good heart - with this... [read more]
Quote of the day
29 October 10
"A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special." - Nelson Mandela
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Naomi Campbell fait une sale impression
28 September 10
Regional relevance: Africa
Je dois admettre que même moi, je n’ai pas suivi la session de la Cour Spéciale des Nations Unies sur la Sierra Leone à La Haye aux Pays Bas. En tant que Sierra Léonaise établie à Londres, j’en ai eu assez des hésitations qui ont entaché le procès: la poursuite versus Charles Taylor. Taylor lui même... [read more]
Naomi Campbell delivers a dirty message
23 August 10 | (1) Comment
Regional relevance: Africa
I must admit that even I have not been following news from the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague, Netherlands. As a Sierra Leonean now living in London, I got sick of the dithering that marred the trial: the prosecution versus Charles Taylor. Taylor himself did not treat the charges with seriousness. On... [read more]
