Nelson Mandela

The Rough Guide to Cape Town, Winelands & Garden Route
by Rough Guides , James Bembridge and Barbara McCrea
Published 4 Jan 2018

The top floor, accessed via a ramp, accommodates the Penguin Exhibit, featuring a small breeding colony of endangered African penguins (which you can see in their natural habitat at Boulders Beach) and the rockhopper penguins. Nelson Mandela Gateway Clock Tower Precinct • Daily 7.30am–5.30pm • Free • 021 413 4200, robben-island.org.za The imposing Clock Tower by the Waterfront’s swing bridge was built as the original Port Captain’s office in 1882. Adjacent to this is the Nelson Mandela Gateway, the embarkation point for ferries to Robben Island and sometimes referred to as Jetty 1. Here, the Robben Island Museum has installed a number of exhibitions that are open to the public and free of charge.

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Elizabeth was the young wife of the Cape’s acting governor in 1820, Sir Rufane Donkin; she died of fever in India in 1818. The nineteen Donkin Houses, built in the mid-nineteenth century and declared National Monuments in 1967, reflect the desire of the English settlers to create a home from home in this strange, desiccated land. Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum 1 Park Drive • Mon & Wed–Fri 9am–5pm, Tues 2–5pm • Free The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum, situated in two buildings framing the entrance to St George’s Park, sounds grander than it is, but has a collection of contemporary local work, visiting exhibitions and a small shop selling postcards and local arts and crafts.

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Advocate, police-reserve sergeant and award-winning novelist, Brown paints a gritty, and sometimes witty, picture of life on the beat, tackling the mean streets of Cape Town. Richard Calland Anatomy of South Africa: Who Holds the Power. An incisive dissection of politics and power in South Africa today, from one of the most respected commentators in the country. John Carlin Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that made a Nation. Gripping account of Nelson Mandela’s use of the 1995 Rugby World Cup to unite a fractious nation, in danger of collapsing into civil war. It was also published as Invictus, the title of the Clint Eastwood film, which starred Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman. Andrew Feinstein After the Party: Corruption, the ANC and South Africa’s Uncertain Future.

One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories
by B. J. Novak
Published 4 Feb 2014

We can make everything what it was, now that you understand the significance of everything that happened. And then they put her on the phone, and she says one more thing. The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela The following is a transcript of excerpts from the unaired 2012 special The Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela. There is currently no broadcast date for this special. ANNOUNCER: Welcome to the Comedy Central Roast of Nelson Mandela! With Jeffrey Ross! Lisa Lampanelli! Archbishop Desmond Tutu! Archbishop Don “Magic” Juan! Winnie Mandela! Sisqo! Anthony Jeselnik! Pauly D! Former South African prime minister F.

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Sustained standing ovation. GILBERT GOTTFRIED: NELSON MANDELA IS ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. (Applause) AND ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY AND OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY AND OF THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. NELSON, LOOK AT YOU, HOW OLD ARE YOU? NELSON MANDELA IS SO OLD, HE HATES HIS PRESIDENTIAL LIMOUSINE BECAUSE HE STILL CAN’T GET USED TO THE WHEELS! NELSON MANDELA IS ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE TENTH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE NINTH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE EIGHTH CENTURY AND ONE OF THE GREAT MEN OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY— JEFFREY ROSS: And now, ladies and gentlemen, the man of the hour, a living legend, President Nelson Mandela!

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And now, ladies and gentlemen, the “Roastmaster General” himself, JEFFREY ROSS! Jeffrey Ross enters dressed as Honey Boo Boo Child. He turns slowly to reveal his costume. He receives a standing ovation. JEFFREY ROSS: What an honor to be here roasting President Nelson Mandela. (Applause) President Mandela, you’re a good sport, thank you for agreeing to be here. All proceeds tonight go to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, which fights poverty in Africa. (Applause) Poverty in Africa—I have a feeling your charity is going to be around for quite a while, President Mandela. (Applause) President Mandela, you took one of the most unjust nations on earth and made it what it is today: one of the most violent nations on earth.

Lonely Planet Cape Town & the Garden Route (Travel Guide)
by Lucy Corne
Published 1 Sep 2015

TOP SIGHT Robben Island Robben Island’s best-known prisoner was Nelson Mandela, which makes it one of the most popular pilgrimage spots in all of Cape Town. Set some 12km out in Table Bay, the flat island – a Unesco World Heritage site – served as a jail from the early days of VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; Dutch East India Company) control right up until 1996. The Tour The small island, just 2km by 4km, can only be visited on a tour that starts with a ferry journey (30 to 60 minutes, depending on the vessel) from Nelson Mandela Gateway at the Waterfront. Once on the island you'll be introduced to a guide, typically a former inmate, who will lead a walk through the old prison (with an obligatory peek into Mandela’s cell).

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It includes a map detailing the stories of many prominent activists and events in South Africa's 20th-century history. Path to Democracy In 1982 Nelson Mandela and other ANC leaders were moved from Robben Island to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town. (In 1986 senior politicians began secretly talking with them.) Concurrently, the state’s military crackdowns in the townships became even more pointed. In early 1990 President FW de Klerk began to repeal discriminatory laws, and the ANC, PAC and Communist Party were legalised. On 11 February the world watched in awe as a living legend emerged from Victor Verster Prison near Paarl. Later that day Nelson Mandela delivered his first public speech since being incarcerated 27 years earlier to a massive crowd overspilling from Cape Town’s Grand Parade.

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Schedule time for a hike: the park’s 245 sq km include routes to suit all levels of fitness and ambition, from gentle ambles to spot fynbos (literally ‘fine bush’, primarily proteas, heaths and ericas) to the five-day, four-night Hoerikwaggo Trail. 1Garden & Surrounds Table Mountain GUNTER LENZ/GETTY IMAGES © Cape Town’s Top 10 Robben Island 2A World Heritage site, the former prison on Robben Island is a key location in South Africa’s long walk to freedom. Nelson Mandela and other Freedom struggle heroes were incarcerated here, following in the tragic footsteps of earlier fighters against the various colonial governments that ruled over the Cape. Taking the boat journey here and the tour with former inmates provides an insight into the country’s troubled history – and a glimpse of how far it has progressed on the path to reconciliation and forgiveness. 1Green Point & Waterfront Robben Island MARK HARRIS/GETTY IMAGES © Cape Town’s Top 10 Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens 3There’s been European horticulture on the picturesque eastern slopes of Table Mountain since Jan van Riebeeck’s time in the 17th century, but it was British imperialist Cecil Rhodes, owner of Kirstenbosch Farm and surrounding properties, who really put the gardens on the map when he bequeathed the land to all Capetonians.

The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning. Elevate Your Life.
by Robin Sharma
Published 4 Dec 2018

“This is a special day for them,” remarked the pilot, his voice getting louder. “These people have come a long way to see the prison cell where Nelson Mandela was jailed. They have come to view the limestone quarry where he was forced to hack away at stones for over a decade, in the torturous sun that reflected off the rock to the point where it damaged his eyesight permanently. They want to view the courtyard where the statesman would exercise and throw tennis balls with confidential messages inside to his fellow political prisoners in the next cell-block. They need to go to the spot where Nelson Mandela’s manuscript for Long Walk to Freedom, his autobiography, would be secretly buried in the dirt after he’d spent many hours working on it.

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Everything we go through as we travel through a life is, in truth, a fantastic orchestration designed to introduce us to our truest talents, connect us with our most sovereign selves and deepen our intimacy with the glorious hero that lives inside each of us. Yes, within every single one of us. And that does mean you. The tour guide, who also happened to be a former political prisoner, was a large man with a gruff voice. As he led his guests toward the cell where Nelson Mandela was forced to live for so many long and harsh years, he answered each of the questions they asked. “Did you know Nelson Mandela?” queried The Spellbinder thoughtfully. “Yes, I served with him for eight years here on Robben Island.” “What was he like as a person?” asked the artist, appearing overwhelmed by the emotions that he was feeling as they walked down the main corridor of the jail that had been home to so many atrocities during the apartheid era.

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“As we go through life we endure our own trials and injustices. Nothing as severe as what went on here, of course. I read that Nelson Mandela said his greatest regret was not being allowed out of this prison to attend the funeral of his eldest son after he was killed in a car accident,” expressed the billionaire. He looked up to the sky. “I guess we all have our regrets. And no one gets out without their own ordeals and tragedies.” The tour guide pointed to the fourth window, to the right of the entrance into the courtyard. “There,” he stated. “That’s Nelson Mandela’s cell. Let’s go in.” The cell was incredibly small. No bed. A small wooden table that the prisoner would kneel at to write in his journal as there was no chair, a concrete floor and a brown woolen blanket, with green and red flecks in it.

When They Go Low, We Go High: Speeches That Shape the World – and Why We Need Them
by Philip Collins
Published 4 Oct 2017

In Bombay, the sirens of hundreds of mills and factories, the whistling of railway engines and hooting from ships ushered in independence at midnight. There was, indeed, a mountain of hard work ahead, and it is not done yet, but Nehru’s words defined the possibility of the nation that India is in the constant process of becoming. NELSON MANDELA An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die Supreme Court of South Africa, Pretoria 20 April 1964 Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) became, for a generation of people, within South Africa and far beyond, the captain of their soul. There is a case for suggesting that Mandela’s incarceration was a blessing for his political reputation. Deprived of the capacity to speak and make public errors, Mandela emerged from a quarter of a century in prison as a candidate for sainthood, which his subsequent grace justified.

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Kennedy: Ask Not What Your Country Can Do for You, Washington DC, 20 January 1961 Barack Obama: I Have Never Been More Hopeful about America, Grant Park, Chicago, 7 November 2012 Pericles: Funeral Oration, Athens, Winter, c. 431 BC David Lloyd George: The Great Pinnacle of Sacrifice, Queen’s Hall, London, 19 September 1914 Woodrow Wilson: Making the World Safe for Democracy, Joint Session of the Two Houses of Congress, 2 April 1917 Winston Churchill: Their Finest Hour, House of Commons, 18 June 1940 Ronald Reagan: Tear Down This Wall, The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, 12 June 1987 Elizabeth I of England: I Have the Heart and Stomach of a King, Tilbury, 9 August 1588 Benjamin Franklin: I Agree to This Constitution with All Its Faults, The Constitutional Convention, Philadelphia, 17 September 1787 Jawaharlal Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny, Constituent Assembly, Parliament House, New Delhi, 14 August 1947 Nelson Mandela: An Ideal for Which I Am Prepared to Die, Supreme Court of South Africa, Pretoria, 20 April 1964 Aung San Suu Kyi: Freedom from Fear, European Parliament, Strasbourg, 10 July 1991 William Wilberforce: Let Us Make Reparations to Africa, House of Commons, London, 12 May 1789 Emmeline Pankhurst: The Laws That Men Have Made, The Portman Rooms, 24 March 1908 Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (La Pasionaria): No Pasarán, Mestal Stadium, Valencia, 23 August 1936 Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream, The March on Washington, 28 August 1963 Neil Kinnock: Why Am I the First Kinnock in a Thousand Generations?

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The great causes, at least in the rich, fortunate democracies, have gone. If there are fewer uplifting speeches today than there once were, then the chief cause is a heartening one. Momentous speeches are always given in answer to a signal injustice or crisis – think of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. The success of the developed democracies means injustice is less acute than it once was. The great questions – the entitlement to vote, material and gender equality, freedom of association and speech, war and peace – are not entirely resolved, but the first decades of the twenty-first century show progress that would have been unimaginable two centuries before.

City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
by Catie Marron
Published 11 Apr 2016

But I’m not an expert in how the Grand Parade fits into the life and architecture of Cape Town, so I called someone who is: a distinguished professor of urban studies at the University of Cape Town, Vanessa Watson. Watson lives in the same suburb where she was living when Nelson Mandela dropped by her house on his way to the Grand Parade. The baby boy whom Nelson Mandela held is now a twenty-four-year-old law student. Watson speaks in a firm voice with a strong South African accent. She says it was logical that the ANC would have chosen Grand Parade: “It’s the largest and most important public space in Cape Town. It’s the most iconic meeting place.

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Rory Stewart tells the story of a square in Kabul, which has come and gone several times over five centuries, due to both the local culture and, equally, the will of one individual, the latest iteration involving Rory himself in the leadership role. Ari Shavit describes the changes of central Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, which began as a forum for rallies and assemblies, then became the symbolic site of a national tragedy, and is now an almost empty void, even as hectic urban life bustles with energy around its edges. Rick Stengel recounts Nelson Mandela’s choice of the Grand Parade, Cape Town, a huge market square that was transformed into a public space of historic magnitude when he spoke to the world right after his release from twenty-seven years in prison. In Euromaidan, Tahrir, and Taksim squares, social media—the new virtual square—summoned people to the physical square.

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There is a mystique to the place that carried the memories, the nobility, and the pride of the people who stood their ground to create a new Egypt. They created a conscious space that pulled people in and made them see beyond their limits. We often see the greatest hits of change. We see Martin Luther King, Jr., lead a march on Washington; we see Nelson Mandela freeing South Africa. But we don’t see the process of change. We don’t experience the agony of King’s family over the years, and we don’t spend twenty-seven years in prison with Mandela. In the square, I saw the quiet, determined, and relentless fight for change. Change does not happen overnight.

The Challenge for Africa
by Wangari Maathai
Published 6 Apr 2009

The reintroduction of multipartism in many African nations resulted from demands by donor nations, as well as from the many years of struggle by African civil society for better governance. Another powerful sign that the Cold War was over and that entrenched systems could change was the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 after twenty-seven years in prison, followed by the formal end of apartheid in South Africa four years later. Mandela's release also fulfilled one of the main aims of the much-maligned Organization for African Unity: the political decolonization of the entire African continent.

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No nation has developed these three pillars without the people themselves chiseling them, sometimes at a great price. In Africa, independence movements throughout the continent struggled to free their fellow citizens from colonialism and imperialism—including those led by Jomo Kenyatta, Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, and Walter Sisulu. One is reminded of the courage and determination of those who fought for women's suffrage in the early part of the twentieth century; Mahatma Gandhi's campaign for Indian independence, which mobilized hundreds of thousands of individuals in nonviolent resistance to British rule; and the civil rights movement in the United States, for which many people gave their lives.

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It should not be impossible to find leaders in Africa willing to raise the standard of leadership and to nurture them so that they be come beacons for the continent. To be sure, some leaders tried, often at great personal sacrifice, to give that hope to their people and to the African people at large—men such as Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Julius Nyerere in Tanzania, Seretse Khama in Botswana, Léopold Senghor in Senegal, Ahmed Ben Bella in Algeria, and even Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana in his early years. Will their example ever be followed by leaders and would-be leaders in Africa today and in coming decades? The exercise of good leadership would end government violations of human rights and restrictions on freedoms such as the right to move, assemble, access information, and organize.

Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World
by Srdja Popovic and Matthew Miller
Published 3 Feb 2015

Gene Sharp de nes this all-important principle: Gene Sharp, There Are Realistic Alternatives (Boston: Albert Einstein Institution, 2003), 21. 3. “the conception of how best to achieve objectives in a con ict”: Ibid., 21. Chapter IX: The Demons of Violence 1. “At the beginning of June 1961”: “ ‘I Am Prepared to Die’: Nelson Mandela’s Opening Statement from the Dock at the Opening of the Defence Case in the Rivonia Trial,” United Nations website for Nelson Mandela Day, www.​un.​org/​en/​events/​mandeladay/​court_​statement_​ 1964.​shtml. 2. the Spear launched almost two hundred attacks: Janet Cherry, Spear of the Nation (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012), 23. 3. “We should have the ability to defend ourselves”: Mahatma Gandhi, The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas (New York: Vintage, 2002), 109. 4.

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Riahi) 8.1 Hundreds of thousands of protesters were preparing for the nonviolent takeover of the Serbian Parliament Building in Belgrade on October 5, 2000. (Igor Jeremic) 8.2 “2000—This is the Year”: Otpor!’s campaign following the group’s Orthodox New Year Concert in January 2000. 8.3 Celebrating OPTOR’s victory in the October 5 revolution, Slavija Square, Belgrade. (Igor Jeremic) 9.1 Nelson Mandela’s cell in Robben Island Prison in South Africa. (Paul A. Mannix) 9.2 Nonviolence sculpture by Carl Frederick Reuterswärd. (MHM55) 10.1 A Muslim holding the Koran and a Coptic Christian holding a cross in Tahrir Square. Cairo, February 6, 2011. (Dylan Martinez) 10.2 “We Are Watching You”: Otpor!’

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Think about it: how many movies have you seen about World War II or the Vietnam War? Plenty, I’m sure. But try to count the number of major lms that have been made about famous nonviolent struggles. There’s Gandhi, of course, with Ben Kingsley; Milk, with Sean Penn; plus a few moving tributes to Nelson Mandela. But that’s pretty much it. We revere the warriors, but have the warriors really shaped history? Consider the following: the main outcome of World War I was World War II, and the main outcome of World War II was the Cold War, which in turn gave us Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the war on terror, and so on.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
by Andreas Malm
Published 4 Jan 2021

‘Just as apartheid was the moral issue’ of the late twentieth century, ‘climate change is the moral issue of our time’, McKibben has said, alluding to suffering in non-white peripheries of the world, and ‘the same kind of tactic is what’s necessary to face it’. As apartheid was vanquished, so the fossil fuel industry will be. And then there followed, just around the time when Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the revolt against Margaret Thatcher’s proposed poll tax – the XR handbook devotes one chapter to it: ordinary people writing letters, refusing to pay the tax, volunteering to go to jail – and then the fall of Slobodan Milošević and the toppling of Hosni Mubarak on Tahrir Square, all bequeathing the moral of strict non-violence as the royal road to climate stabilisation, all underpinning the strategic pacifism that is utterly hegemonic in the movement.

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It also took more than civil disobedience: in the 1950s and early ’60s, the African National Congress (ANC) experimented with bus boycotts, strikes, pass-burning, campaigns to refuse segregation in trains and post offices and found that they invited little else than overwhelming repression. After the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the ANC leaders realised that they had to ratchet up the pressure and formed Umkhonto we Sizwe, the Spear of the Nation, or MK. It was Nelson Mandela who pushed for the reorientation: ‘Our policy to achieve a non-racial state by non-violence has achieved nothing’, and so ‘we will have to reconsider our tactics. In my mind we are closing a chapter on this question of a non-violent policy.’ Having won over his colleagues to the new line, Mandela was appointed first commander of the MK.

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But that doesn’t mean that Islamists have to kill when they attack oil: the drones diving into Abqaiq did not produce a single recorded injury to a human body. The fine art to be mastered here is that of controlled political violence. When the townships boiled after the Sharpeville massacre, Nelson Mandela tried to convince his fellow ANC leaders that ‘violence would begin whether we initiated it or not. Would it not be better to guide this violence ourselves, according to principles where we saved lives by attacking symbols of oppression, and not people?’ Sages like Ranstorp may have spotted a similar ferment (though the similarities clearly shouldn’t be exaggerated).

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
Published 15 Nov 2016

He puts his head down and fights. When the colonial armies invaded, the Zulu charged into battle with nothing but spears and shields against men with guns. The Zulu were slaughtered by the thousands, but they never stopped fighting. The Xhosa, on the other hand, pride themselves on being the thinkers. My mother is Xhosa. Nelson Mandela was Xhosa. The Xhosa waged a long war against the white man as well, but after experiencing the futility of battle against a better-armed foe, many Xhosa chiefs took a more nimble approach. “These white people are here whether we like it or not,” they said. “Let’s see what tools they possess that can be useful to us.

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The last thing I wanted to do that Sunday morning was climb into some crowded minibus, but the second I heard my mom say sun’qhela I knew my fate was sealed. She gathered up Andrew and we climbed out of the Volkswagen and went out to try to catch a ride. — I was five years old, nearly six, when Nelson Mandela was released from prison. I remember seeing it on TV and everyone being happy. I didn’t know why we were happy, just that we were. I was aware of the fact that there was a thing called apartheid and it was ending and that was a big deal, but I didn’t understand the intricacies of it. What I do remember, what I will never forget, is the violence that followed.

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Before apartheid, any black South African who received a formal education was likely taught by European missionaries, foreign enthusiasts eager to Christianize and Westernize the natives. In the mission schools, black people learned English, European literature, medicine, the law. It’s no coincidence that nearly every major black leader of the anti-apartheid movement, from Nelson Mandela to Steve Biko, was educated by the missionaries—a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom. The only way to make apartheid work, therefore, was to cripple the black mind. Under apartheid, the government built what became known as Bantu schools. Bantu schools taught no science, no history, no civics.

Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
by William Blum
Published 31 Mar 2002

For several years, Haiti and its supporters in the United Nations Commission on Human Rights and in the General Assembly have tried to bring to a vote a resolution calling for the United States to return the documents. But the US delegation has been able to maneuver the proceedings to block such a vote.11 CHAPTER 23 : How the CIA Sent Nelson Mandela to Prison for 28 Years When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990, President George Bush personally telephoned the black South African leader to tell him that all Americans were "rejoicing at his release".1 This was the same Nelson Mandela who was imprisoned for almost 28 years because the CIA tipped off South African authorities as to where they could find him. And this was the same George Bush who was once the head of the CIA and who for eight years was second in power of an administration whose CIA and National Security Agency collaborated closely with the South African intelligence service, providing information about Mandela's African National Congress.2 The ANC was a progressive nationalist movement whose influence had been felt in other African countries; accordingly it had been perceived by Washington as being part of the legendary International Communist Conspiracy.

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George Bush, 1992 3 How can they have the arrogance to dictate to us where we should go or which countries should be our friends? Gadhafi is my friend. He supported us when we were alone and when those who tried to prevent my visit here today were our enemies. They have no morals. We cannot accept that a state assumes the role of the world's policeman. Nelson Mandela, 1997 4 When I came into office, I was determined that our country would go into the 21st century still the world's greatest farce for peace and freedom, for democracy and security and prosperity. Bill Clinton, 1996 5 Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, kitted or "disappeared", at the hands of governments or armed political groups.

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A Concise History of United States Global Interventions, 1945 to the Present 125 18. Perverting Elections 168 19. Trojan Horse: The National Endowment for Democracy 179 20. The US versus the World at the United Nations 184 21. Eavesdropping on the Planet 200 22. Kidnapping and Looting 210 23. How the CIA Sent Nelson Mandela to Prison for 28 Years 215 24. The CIA and Drugs: Just Say "Why Not?" 218 25. Being the World's Only Superpower Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry 227 26. The United States Invades, Bombs and Kills for It...but Do Americans Really Believe in Free Enterprise? 236 27. A Day in the Life of a Free Country 243 Notes 274 Index 305 About the Author 310 Author's Foreword: Concerning September 11, 2001 and the Bombing of Afghanistan Shortly after the publication of this book, the momentous events of September 11, 2001 occurred.

Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
by Adam Grant
Published 2 Feb 2016

Malala Yousafzai was moved: Jodi Kantor, “Malala Yousafzai: By the Book,” New York Times, August 19, 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/books/review/malala-yousafzai-by-the-book.html. King was inspired by Gandhi: Rufus Burrow Jr., Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2014). as was Nelson Mandela: “Nelson Mandela, the ‘Gandhi of South Africa,’ Had Strong Indian Ties,” Economic Times, December 6, 2013, articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-12-06/news/44864354_1_nelson-mandela-gandhi-memorial-gandhian-philosophy. Elon Musk . . . Lord of the Rings: Tad Friend, “Plugged In: Can Elon Musk Lead the Way to an Electric-Car Future?” New Yorker, August 24, 2009, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/08/24/plugged-in.

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field of evidence-based management: Trish Reay, Whitney Berta, and Melanie Kazman Kohn, “What’s the Evidence on Evidence-Based Management?,” Academy of Management Perspectives (November 2009): 5–18. 8: Rocking the Boat and Keeping It Steady “I learned that courage”: Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (New York: Little, Brown, 1995). Instead of visualizing success: Personal interview with Lewis Pugh, June 10, 2014, and personal communication, February 15, 2015; Lewis Pugh, Achieving the Impossible (London: Simon & Schuster, 2010) and 21 Yaks and a Speedo: How to Achieve Your Impossible (Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2013); “Swimming Toward Success” speech at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 23, 2014.

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But we can locate role models in a more accessible place: the stories of great originals throughout history. Human rights advocate Malala Yousafzai was moved by reading biographies of Meena, an activist for equality in Afghanistan, and of Martin Luther King, Jr. King was inspired by Gandhi, as was Nelson Mandela. In some cases, fictional characters may be even better role models. Growing up, many originals find their first heroes in their most beloved novels, where protagonists exercise their creativity in pursuit of unique accomplishments. When asked to name their favorite books, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel each chose Lord of the Rings,, the epic tale of a hobbit’s adventures to destroy a dangerous ring of power.

The Burning Land
by George Alagiah
Published 28 Aug 2019

He knew that everything else that was wrong in their marriage had grown out of this one central accusation – that he had forgotten where they had both started out. They had met in the seventies. Josiah Motlantshe was the most prominent in a new generation of activists that was emerging inside South Africa, carrying the mantle of leadership while the likes of Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Joe Slovo were either jailed or in exile. He was an extrovert, a fiery orator. Priscilla was the opposite, but what she lacked in public presence she more than made up for with a quiet determination. When Motlantshe and some others were jailed it was said that, of all the women who were left behind, Priscilla would cope best.

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That was in the days when she was a junior diplomat at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, a position she owed to her fast-track appointment straight out of university. Because of her family’s links to South Africa, Lindi had been asked to prepare a draft paper on what South Africa might look like post-Nelson Mandela. Among other things, her report contained the memorable, if dramatic, assessment that if land ownership became an issue, the ensuing agitation would ‘make what happened in Zimbabwe look like a picnic’. She’d argued that apartheid’s legacy of white ownership might be eclipsed by the more recent land purchases: everyone from Gulf sheikhs, Chinese government agencies and private-equity magnates, many of them based in London, had been at it.

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There must have been a dozen desks, each cluttered with PC screens, TV monitors and headphones. On one wall a line of clocks showed the time locally and in Lagos, Nairobi, London, Washington and Beijing. Underneath them, as if surveying the newsroom, was a life-size cut-out image of a beaming Nelson Mandela, his right arm raised in an iconic closed-fist salute. The great man had signed the picture. Lindi saw that its wooden base was screwed to the floor, presumably because it was the kind of memento for which there was a lucrative market. On another wall there was a row of screens, each tuned to a different channel – CNN, ENCA, BBC World and Al Jazeera.

Philanthrocapitalism
by Matthew Bishop , Michael Green and Bill Clinton
Published 29 Sep 2008

If they ask, the superrich can usually get face time with both global experts and those people on the ground who know what is really going on. When wealthy donors from the Global Philanthropists Circle visited South Africa in 2002, they were shown around the jail on Robben Island by its most famous former inmate, Nelson Mandela. In short, “richesse oblige” and a belief in hyperagency are the driving spirit of philanthrocapitalism today. The multibillion-dollar question is whether that spirit will be enough to change the world. CHAPTER 4 Billanthropy “ARE WE BIG ENOUGH TO PLAY OUR role in AIDS? Are we big enough to play our role in malaria?

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WE WILL NEVER know how close British billionaire Sir Richard Branson came to preventing the bloody war in Iraq, but the instantly recognizable bearded boss of Virgin certainly tried. In early 2002, he recalls, “I was thinking, ‘How can we find a graceful way out for Saddam Hussein?’ I happen to know Nelson Mandela well. He had spoken out against the war. We talked about him going to Iraq, speaking to Saddam, confronting him with the truth. Maybe he could go into exile in Libya, the same way [1970s Ugandan dictator Idi] Amin went to Saudi, and we could avoid war.” If anyone could talk sense to Saddam, surely it was Mandela, the saintlike statesman who, as South Africa’s first black president, had overseen the country’s miraculously peaceful postapartheid transition to majority rule after his release from jail.

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(for all Turner’s efforts). But Branson understood that launching a self-appointed group presented a huge branding challenge—along the lines of “who do these people think they are?” Wisely, he did not include himself as an Elder, nor the other philanthropists who agreed to back the group. Instead, he asked Nelson Mandela and his wife, Graça Machel, to appoint the first Elders. Branson describes the Elders group as an attempt to extend the brand of Mandela beyond his current frailties and limited remaining lifespan: “Mandela is not going to live forever. How do we replace, continue him?” This strategy certainly worked in the recruiting phase.

Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman
Published 1 Jun 2020

‘As things stand now,’ Constand replies, ‘we have only one option, and that is to fight.’17 Then Braam makes a proposal, a plan he and Nelson Mandela have hammered out together in the utmost secrecy. What would Constand say, Braam asks, to sitting down with the ANC leadership for direct talks about the position of his people? By this point, Constand has already rejected nine such overtures. But this time his response is different. This time it’s his brother asking. And so it transpires that a pair of identical twins arrive together on the doorstep of a villa in Johannesburg on 12 August 1993. They expect to be greeted by household staff, but standing before them with a big grin is the man himself. Nelson Mandela. It’s a historic moment: the hero of the new South Africa standing eye to eye with the hero of the old.

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In a pile of old notes, I found the brothers’ names, and after that, I wanted to know everything about them. 2 The story of the brothers is inextricably bound up with one of the most renowned figures of the twentieth century. On 11 February 1990, millions of people sat glued to their televisions to see him. Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for twenty-seven years, became a free man on that day. Finally, there was hope for peace and reconciliation between black and white South Africans. ‘Take your guns, your knives and your pangas,’ shouted Mandela shortly after his release, ‘and throw them into the sea!’1 Four years later, on 26 April 1994, the first elections were held for all South Africans.

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Because if we have a better memory for bad interactions, how come contact nonetheless brings us closer together? The answer, in the end, was simple. For every unpleasant incident we encounter, there are any number of pleasant interactions.24 The bad may seem stronger, but it’s outnumbered by the good. If there’s one person who understood the power of contact it was Nelson Mandela. Years earlier, he had chosen a very different path – the path of violence. In 1960, Mandela had been one of the founding members of the armed wing of the ANC. But twenty-seven years behind bars can utterly change a person. As the years passed, Mandela began to realise what scientists would later show: nonviolent resistance is a lot more effective than violence.

Solitary
by Albert Woodfox
Published 12 Mar 2019

See also Free the Angola 4 beginning of, 261–65 creating the support and legal teams, 288–96 effectiveness of efforts, 329 King working outside with, 313, 373 protesting Camp J conditions, 284 selling candy to support, 277 support for AW, 286 support for habeas corpus petition, 275 support for Herman Wallace release, 355 support from Amnesty International, 331–32 National Commission n Correctional Health Care, 354 National Football League, 408 National Prison Project (ACLU), 341 National Rainbow Coalition, 68 national Registry of Exonerations (NRE), 409–10 National Rifle Association (NRA), 69 Native American Housing Committee, 68 Native Americans, 162 Native Son (Wright), 170, 208 Nazi Germany, 71 “Nelson Mandela Rules,” 411 Nelson Mandela’s Institute for Global Dialogue, 287 Neville, Charles, 37 New Orleans 6th Ward, 3–4, 46 13th Ward, 195–96 as “prison capital of the world,” 345 AW birth and living in, 1–2, 221 AW family departure to LaGrange, NC, 2–3 AW family escape from Daddy’s abuse, 3–4 AW friends in lockup from, 25, 27–28, 37, 91, 195–97 AW making a home in, 4–9, 318 AW relocation to Harlem, 58 AW return from lockups, 38, 46, 402 Civil War-era “convict-leasing,” 24–25 Contemporary Arts Center, 328 dealing drugs, 48 gangs/gang activities, 14–16, 18–19, 24, 46 habitual felon law, 54–55 Herman transferred to hospital, 365–66 Hurricane Katrina, 342 Mardi Gras, 4, 7 NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 349–50 national hearing on penal reform, 91, 306 police misconduct, 321, 342 presence of ACLU, 263 presence of Black Panthers, 80–81, 104, 126–27, 236–40, 263, 402 segregation and Jim Crow, 7–9 VOTE activist group, 409 New Orleans Legal Assistance (NOLA), 168 New Orleans Times-Picayune, 105, 120, 283, 345 New York City AW drug buying trips, 48 AW escape from New Orleans, 56–58 AW extradition to New Orleans, 79 AW plea deal and Rikers Island, 78–79 Black Panther presence, 58 incarceration at the Tombs, 58–60, 79, 410 incarceration in New Queens, 76–78 number of prisoners incarcerated, 74 prisoner riots, 74–78 New York Times, 63, 411 Newton, Huey P., 67–69, 72, 91, 126–27, 405, 407 “nigger” (racial slur), 7–8, 24, 30, 35, 77, 100–101, 228 “nigger lover,” 90 Nigger Miles (inmate guard), 42 Nightly News (TV program), 316 19th Judicial District Court, Baton Rouge, 169, 218, 234, 277, 289–92, 296, 350, 373 90-day review board.

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To do this, the authorities attempt to exploit every weakness, demolish every initiative, negate all signs of individuality—all with the idea of stamping out that spark that makes each of us human and each of us who we are. Our survival depended on understanding what the authorities were attempting to do to us, and sharing that understanding with each other. —Nelson Mandela Nothing had changed at Angola. Sexual slavery was still a part of prison culture. Violence was still a constant threat. Armed inmate guards were still in use, on cellblocks, in guard towers, on horseback in the fields. Stabbings and beatings happened every day. Angola was the same. But I was different.

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We knew that we were not locked up in a cell 23 hours a day because of what we did. We were there because of who we were. Sacrifice was required in order to achieve change. Neither of us had any regrets. We never talked about it again. Around this time, Goldy was released from Angola. Months later we heard he died on the street using dope. 1980s Nelson Mandela taught me that if you have a noble cause, you are able to carry the weight of the world on your shoulders. Malcolm X taught me that it doesn’t matter where you start out; what matters is where you end up. George Jackson taught me that if you’re not willing to die for what you believe in, you don’t believe in anything.

Small Men on the Wrong Side of History: The Decline, Fall and Unlikely Return of Conservatism
by Ed West
Published 19 Mar 2020

Yet by aiming low, to paraphrase Michelle Obama’s expression, conservatives are only further helping to make their brand irredeemably vomit-inducing to almost anyone under the age of forty. It is a view summed up by the thirty-something Bridget Jones when she said: ‘Labour stands for sharing, kindness, gays, single mothers and Nelson Mandela as opposed to braying bossy men having affairs with everyone shag shag shag left right and centre and going to the Ritz in Paris then telling all the presenters off on the Today programme.’18 Bridget Jones is a fictional character, obviously, but the words reflect widespread middle-class thinking, and apply even more so today than when they were written in the 1990s, at a time when the Tory party seemed to disgrace itself with sexual peccadilloes while they were lecturing the rest of us on morality.

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Like many public schoolboys of his generation, Dad embraced socialism as a young man and when he was stationed in Trieste for national service fell in love with Tito’s Yugoslavia. Any youthful ideals, however, were soon knocked out of him by his experience of decolonialisation in Africa. By the time I was around he was deeply pessimistic and cynical, and seriously out of step with the prevailing mood over South Africa. Although he respected and admired Nelson Mandela, he thought the ANC a venal and extreme organisation that would eventually make the country even worse off than it was under apartheid (which he nonetheless thought morally indefensible). This was, to put it mildly, an unpopular opinion during the 1980s, which despite the popular image of yuppies in pinstripes shouting down brick-sized mobile phones was a time of Left-wing cultural dominance in Britain.

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Look at him – he’s cool, he’s sexy, he’s obviously kind and caring, you wouldn’t find him standing at a bar ranting about immigrants or writing incoherent comments below MailOnline articles. He’s a winner, and a charming winner too. Look at the line-up of people who represent liberalism in the modern imagination: Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, JFK, Martin Sheen in West Wing, Pope Francis, Oscar Romero, (younger, popular) Tony Blair and Barack Obama. Contrast with what people picture when they think of the Right: Richard Nixon looking sweaty and suspicious, racist 1970s comedians, South African security forces gripping their salivating Alsatians, semi-literate rednecks shouting at black people, five-foot South American dictators with their trophy wives, sleazy ‘back to basics’-era Tory MPs forcing their families to pose with them after they’d been caught engaged in sexual depravities with a dominatrix.

Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
by Alex von Tunzelmann
Published 7 Jul 2021

MacKenzie, Propaganda and Empire: The Manipulation of British Public Opinion, 1880–1960 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984), pp. 77, 111. 24HRH The Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, 26 March 1920, Letters from a Prince: Edward, Prince of Wales, to Mrs Freda Dudley Ward, March 1918–January 1921, Rupert Godfrey, ed. (1998; Warner Books, London, 1999), p. 323. 25Britta Timm Knudsen and Casper Andersen, ‘Affective politics and colonial heritage, Rhodes Must Fall at UCT and Oxford’, International Journal of Heritage Studies, vol. 25, no. 3 (2019), p. 253. 26Anon., ‘Students Daub UCT statue’, The Argus, 14 Sep. 1979, quoted in Brenda Schmahmann, ‘The Fall of Rhodes’, p. 96. 27Quoted in Paul Maylam, The Cult of Rhodes, p. 39. 28Author’s interview with Simukai Chigudu, January 2021. 29Paul Maylam, ‘Monuments, memorials and the mystique of empire: the immortalisation of Cecil Rhodes in the twentieth century: The Rhodes Commemoration Lecture delivered on the occasion of the centenary of Rhodes’ death, 26 March 2002’, African Sociological Review, vol. 6, no.1 (2002), p. 143. 30Isabel Wilkerson, ‘Apartheid is Demolished. Must Its Monuments Be?’, The New York Times, 25 September 1994. 31‘Our story: Nelson Mandela and the Rhodes Trust’, Mandela Rhodes Foundation, https://www.mandelarhodes.org/about/story/. 32Nelson Mandela, remarks at the Mandela Rhodes Banquet, 2003, available at the Nelson Mandela Foundation Archive, https://atom.nelsonmandela.org/index.php/za-com-mr-s-993. 33Quoted in Nita Bhalla, ‘South Africa’s #RhodesMustFall Founder Speaks Out on Statues That Glorify Racism’, Global Citizen, 17 June 2020, available at https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/rhodes-must-fall-founder-racist-statues/. 34Quoted in Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, ‘Fallism and the dialectics of spontaneity and organization: Disrupting tradition to reconstruct tradition’, Pambazuka News, 11 May 2017, available at https://www.pambazuka.org/democracy-governance/fallism-and-dialectics-spontaneity-and-organization-disrupting-tradition. 35Andrew Harding, ‘Cecil Rhodes Monument: A Necessary Anger?’

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Yet some local Ndebele people (formerly known as the Matabele) opposed the grave’s removal on the grounds that it brought tourism to the region. ‘Rhodes had ceased to be venerated,’ the historian Paul Maylam observed, ‘but he was still of some commercial value.’29 For now, Rhodes is still in his grave, with Jameson at his side. In South Africa, apartheid finally fell in the early 1990s. The activist Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1964, was freed in 1990. The Population Registration Act was repealed in 1991. South Africa had its first post-apartheid elections in 1994. Mandela became its first black president. Statues of apartheid figures were pulled down: many officially, though there were instances of ad hoc removal.

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‘So now to see this renewed wave, which is gaining far more momentum, far more sympathy and being treated with far more nuance than our original cause, it’s quite frankly miraculous.’51 The reaction from Britain’s political leadership, though, echoed 2015. ‘We cannot rewrite our history,’ said the Universities Minister, Michelle Donelan.52 Oxford’s vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson, took a similar view, telling the Daily Telegraph that taking the statue down would be ‘a refusal to acknowledge our past’. She attempted to use Nelson Mandela’s 2003 remarks on Rhodes as an argument for keeping the statue, saying that Mandela ‘was a man of deep nuance who recognised complex problems for what they were. I don’t think he sought simplistic solutions. Hiding our history is not the route to enlightenment.’53 Fourteen Oxford professors wrote to the newspaper to deplore her ‘inappropriate ventriloquising’ of Mandela.54 The Mandela Rhodes Foundation issued a critical statement: ‘To use the partnership to justify the continued display of colonial symbols is to fundamentally misunderstand it.’55 ‘I would take it down,’ said Valerie Amos, the incoming master of University College, and the first black person to become head of an Oxford college in the institution’s 900-plus year history.

Paris Like a Local
by Dk Eyewitness

Every inch of the city’s streets become communal backyards after dark, with locals gathering to drink, socialize and dance outdoors. g NIGHTLIFE g Contents Open-air Living Rooms QUAI DE LA LOIRE CANAL SAINT-MARTIN PARC DU CHAMP-DE-MARS PLACE DU MARCHÉ SAINTE-CATHERINE PONT DES ARTS JARDIN TINO-ROSSI JARDIN DU CARROUSEL JARDIN NELSON MANDELA g Open-air Living Rooms g Contents Google Map QUAI DE LA LOIRE Map 5; Quai de la Loire, 19th; ///husbands.pinch.gifts This broad, calm canal is a local alternative to the Seine – and with more action. Parisians use its wide banks for pétanque matches, which start late in the day and continue into the evening.

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Friends come for post-work wind-downs, stretching out with a blanket and nibbling on a baguette while the odd frisbee gets their attention flying overhead. It doesn’t get more Parisian than seeing the Eiffel Tower illuminated in the distance and the palatial museum sitting behind you. g Open-air Living Rooms g Contents Google Map JARDIN NELSON MANDELA Map 1; 1 Place du René Cassin, 1st; ///dude.beefed.rust When you spot the giant statue of a head, you’ve arrived. Known to locals as Jardin Les Halles, the area in the shadows of St Eustache church has had a facelift in recent years, with heaps of seating added that make it more amenable to hanging out than ever before.

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Dehillerin Kiliwatch Librairie Galignani Librairie Jousseaume L’Officine Universelle Buly Mad Lords Nose Oh My Cream! The Red Wheelbarrow Rouje Shinzo ARTS & CULTURE 59 Rivoli Museé de I’Illusion Museé du Louvre Museé du Luxembourg Museé d’Orsay Théâtre du Châtelet NIGHTLIFE Église St Sulpice Jardin du Carrousel Jardin Nelson Mandela Le Dernier Bar avant la Fin du Monde Le Labo Pont des Arts Reset OUTDOORS Galerie Vivienne Jardin du Luxembourg Jardin du Palais Royal Marne River Place Dauphine Rue Montorgueil Square du Vert-Galant g Maps g Contents ← MAP 2 → EAT Au P’tit Grec Baieta Bar à Iode Saint Germain Chez Alain Miam Miam Elmer Sacha Finkelsztajn DRINK Bisou Caféothèque Comptoir des Archives La Belle Hortense Lavomatic Le Progrès Les Philosophes Café Little Red Door Vignerons Parisiens Yellow Tucan SHOP A la Ville de Rodez CSAO Faguo Fleux Huygens Liquides Bar à Parfum Maison Plisson Merci Papier Plus Papier Tigre Présence Africaine Village Saint-Paul ARTS & CULTURE Black Paris Walks, le Paris Noir Centre Pompidou Ciné le Grand Action Galerie Perrotin Institut du Monde Arab La Mutinerie Maison Européenne de la Photographie Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme Musée des Arts et Métiers Musée Carnavalet Musée de Cluny Panthéon Rocky Horror at Studio Galande Théâtre de la Ville de Paris NIGHTLIFE Jardin Tino-Rossi Le Petit Fer á Cheval Péniche Marcounet Place du Marché Sainte-Catherine OUTDOORS Place Louis Aragon Place des Vosges Rue des Barres g Maps g Contents ← MAP 3 → EAT Bistrot Paul Bert Boulangerie Bo Café Chilango CheZaline Fulgurances “l’Adresse” Le Chalet Savoyard Mokoloco Pizza Julia Utopie VG Patisserie Waly Fay DRINK Back in Black Dirty Lemon La Fine Mousse La Place Verte Le Baron Rouge Les Cuves de Fauve Mr Alphonse SHOP Ailleurs Confiture Parisienne Lady Long Solo Les Mots à la Bouche Marché d’Aligre The Naked Shop ARTS & CULTURE Atelier des Lumières Musée Edith Piaf NIGHTLIFE Agrology Café du Coin Chez Bouboule Gamelle Gossima Ping Pong Bar Le Bar à Pintes Le Perchoir Ménilmontant Supersonic OUTDOORS Bassin de l’Arsenal Cycle the Canal Hike through Cimetière du Père Lachaise Parc Rives de Seine Stroll the Coulée Verte g Maps g Contents ← MAP 4 → EAT BrEAThe Restaurant The Grill Room Jah Jah by le Tricycle Mamiche Mieux Potager de Charlotte Rooster DRINK Brasserie de la Goutte d’Or Café Pimpin Dev!

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
by Jacqueline Novogratz
Published 15 Feb 2009

(April 16, 1963) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (General Assembly of the United Nations, December 10, 1948) LIBERTY AND SOCIAL ORDER “The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer” by Wendell Berry in Farming: A Hand Book (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich) “Democracy” by Langston Hughes Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes “Message to the Congress of Angostura, 1819” by Simón Bolívar The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli “Two Concepts of Liberty” by Isaiah Berlin (address before University of Oxford, October 31, 1958) EQUALITY AND THE QUEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela (Little, Brown and Company) “O Yes” by Tillie Olsen in Tell Me a Riddle (Random House) The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau COMMUNITY AND THE SEARCH FOR HUMANITY The Book of Genesis The Four Noble Truths of Buddhism “How to Write about Africa” by Binyavanga Wainaina (Granta 92, Winter 2005) On Identity by Amin Maalouf (Harvill Panther) Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (Houghton Mifflin) “Speech upon Receiving the Philadelphia Liberty Medal” by Václav Havel (July 4, 1994) PROPERTY AND PRODUCTIVITY Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen (Anchor) Equality and Efficiency: The Big Tradeoff by Arthur M.

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They allowed me to believe we could—and therefore must—create a world in which every person on the planet has access to the resources needed to shape their own lives. For this is where dignity starts. Not only for the very poor, but for all of us. CHAPTER 1 INNOCENT ABROAD “There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” —NELSON MANDELA It all started with the blue sweater, the one my uncle Ed gave me. He was like Santa to me, even in the middle of July. Of soft blue wool, with stripes on the sleeves and an African motif across the front—two zebras walking in front of a snowcapped mountain—the sweater made me dream of places far away.

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CHAPTER 9 BLUE PAINT ON THE ROAD “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” —BUDDHA In 1994, along with the rest of the world, I witnessed the horror of the Rwandan genocide, as well as the brilliant inspiration of Nelson Mandela’s forgiveness of his captors and historic inauguration in South Africa. Coupled with an unfortunate encounter with personal violence on the beach in Tanzania, these contradictory events solidified a worldview that was growing more complex, grounded in the recognition of the potential for both good and evil in each one of us.

The Great Surge: The Ascent of the Developing World
by Steven Radelet
Published 10 Nov 2015

Where old dictators stayed in place, or new tyrants stepped in to replace the old, political and economic systems remained rigged. Strong leadership, smart policy choices, and committed and courageous action at the village, local, and national levels made all the difference in beginning to build the institutions needed to ignite and sustain progress. New national leaders such as Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Cory Aquino of the Philippines, Oscar Arias of Costa Rica, Lech Wałesa of Poland, and many others worked to build new and more inclusive political systems while introducing stronger economic management. Civil-society and religious leaders like Rigoberta Menchú Tum of Guatemala, Desmond Tutu of South Africa, Muhammad Yunus of Bangladesh, Jaime Sin of the Philippines, and Wangari Maathai of Kenya gave greater voice to everyday citizens and pushed for expanded economic opportunities for the poor.

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The push to democracy was on. THE SPREAD OF DEMOCRACY Changes began to unfurl around the world. Namibia gained its independence from South Africa and held its first elections for a new assembly the same day that the Berlin Wall fell. In February 1990—just twelve weeks later—South Africa released Nelson Mandela from jail. The apartheid government, propped up for so long by anticommunist fervor, followed its arch-nemesis the Soviet Union into the dustbin of history. Democracy spread across Africa: to Benin, Mali, Zambia, Lesotho, and Malawi. Czechoslovakia launched its Velvet Revolution against the ruling Communist Party just a week after the Wall fell, and just eleven days later, the government announced it would relinquish power and dismantle the single-party state.

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Within two years, new governments swept into power in Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, and several other countries. The effects went well beyond Eastern Europe. In South Africa, within days of the fall of the Wall, President F. W. de Klerk called together his cabinet to discuss legalizing the African National Congress Party and freeing Nelson Mandela. They did so twelve weeks later. When Mobutu Sese Seko—one of Africa’s most ruthless dictators—watched television coverage of Ceauşescu’s execution, he reportedly concluded that his own regime was in trouble. He soon announced steps toward “democratization.” Augusto Pinochet, who had grabbed power in Chile in a US-supported 1973 coup d’état against the Socialist-Marxist leadership of Salvador Allende, was forced to relinquish power to a new elected government in December 1989.

Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
by Benjamin Dreyer
Published 15 Jan 2019

So here it is, hopefully for the last time in all our lives, though I doubt it: Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector. Oh la la, one is intended to merrily note, is Nelson Mandela really an eight-hundred-year-old demigod and a dildo collector? Oh la la, I note, even if one sets a series comma, as in: Highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod, and a dildo collector. Mandela can still be an eight-hundred-year-old demigod. Some sentences don’t need to be repunctuated; they need to be rewritten.*7 7.

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*6  The Times is a U.K. newspaper whose name is not, never has been, and likely never will be The London Times. The New York Times is an American newspaper that you may refer to, familiarly, as “the Times,” no matter that it persists in referring to itself, grandly and pushily, as The Times. *7  “Highlights of his global tour include encounters with a dildo collector, an 800-year-old demigod, and Nelson Mandela.” Was that so hard? And seriously: What sort of global tour was that? *8  When Alan Bennett’s 1991 play The Madness of George III was filmed, we’re told, the title was tweaked to The Madness of King George so as not to alienate potential attendees—especially ignorant Yanks—who hadn’t seen The Madness of George and The Madness of George II.

Because We Say So
by Noam Chomsky

Captured at age 15, Khadr was imprisoned for eight years in Bagram and Guantánamo, then brought to a military court in October 2010, where he was given the choice of pleading not guilty and staying in Guantánamo forever, or pleading guilty and serving only eight more years. Khadr chose the latter. Many other examples illuminate the concept of “terrorist.” One is Nelson Mandela, only removed from the terrorist list in 2008. Another was Saddam Hussein. In 1982 Iraq was removed from the list of terrorist-supporting states so that the Reagan administration could provide Hussein with aid after he invaded Iran. Accusation is capricious, without review or recourse, and commonly reflecting policy goals—in Mandela’s case, to justify President Reagan’s support for the apartheid state’s crimes in defending itself against one of the world’s “more notorious terrorist groups”: Mandela’s African National Congress.

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The dominant theme is the pain about the sacrifices, in vain, of the American soldiers who fought and died to liberate Fallujah. A look at the news reports of the U.S. assaults on Fallujah in 2004 quickly reveals that these were among the most vicious and disgraceful war crimes of that aggression. The death of Nelson Mandela provides another occasion for reflection on the remarkable impact of what has been called “historical engineering”: reshaping the facts of history to serve the needs of power. When Mandela at last obtained his freedom, he declared that “during all my years in prison, Cuba was an inspiration and Fidel Castro a tower of strength. . . .

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Patrick, 187 Lebanon, 35, 60, 115, 118 Libya, 25–26, 180 Lindsey, Graham, 122 Lipner, Shalom, 26 Lozada, Gonzalo Sánchez de, 123 Lumumba, Patrice, 180 MacInnis, Bo, 94 Madison, James, 149–150 Madrid, 125–127 Magna Carta, 31, 32, 51, 160, 174 Malacca strait, 85 Malkin, Elisabeth, 112 Mandela, Nelson, 32 Mankell, Henning, 99 Manning, Bradley, 122 Manning, Chelsea, 157–158 Maoz, Zeev, 34, 35 Marines, 46 Marshall Islands, 86 Martí, José, 153 Marx, Karl, 149, 151 McChesney, Robert W., 93 McChrystal, Stanley A., 160 McCoy, Alfred, 108 McGuiness, Margaret E., 31 Mearsheimer, John, 158 Meir, Golda, 77 Menachem Begin, 69 Mexico, 39, 42–43, 116, 147, 154 Miami, 124, 137 Micronesia, 86, 141 Middle East, 35–36, 58, 60, 65, 74, 83–87, 117, 153–154, 176, 183, 190 Mill, John Stuart, 145, 149 Mladic, Ratko, 46 Molina, Perez, 42 Monroe Doctrine, 41 Montt, Rios, 110, 111 Morales, Evo, 121–122 Morgenthau, 129–130 Morsi, Mohammed, 74, 75 Moscow, 55, 61 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 132 Moyn, Samuel, 47–48 Mozambique, 99 Mubarak, Hosni, 74 Mukhabarat, 99 Murray, William, 138 Namibia, 156 Nasr, Hassan Mustafa Osama, 124 National Defense Authorization Act, 32 Negev, 27–28 Nelson Mandela, 155 Netanyahu, Benjamin, 185 Nevada, 86 New Spirit of the Age, 53 Nicaragua, 111, 113, 180–181 Nicolaides, Kypros, 47 Nile Valley, 189 Nixon, Richard, 24, 64 Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), 60, 84 Norman Ornstein, 135 North American Free Trade Agreement, 116 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 25, 160, 163–164, 171 Northern Laos, 31, 108 NPT, 35, 65, 84, 86, 139–141 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 35, 65, 84, 139 Nuremberg Trials, 31, 131, 155 Nystrom, Paul, 54 Obama, Barack, 32, 52, 63, 65, 85–86, 105, 107, 128, 129, 131, 139, 140, 154, 158, 159, 166, 169, 171, 174, 175, 179, 181, 185, 186 Okinawa, 55 Oklahoma, 166 Olmert, Ehud, 71, 73 Olstrom, Elinor, 53 Open Society Institute, 124 Operation Cast Lead, 70, 71, 186 Operation Gatekeeper, 116 Operation Mongoose, 56 Operation Pillar of Defense, 79, 184 Operation Protective Edge, 185 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, 62 Organization of American States (OAS), 41, 121 Orwell, George, 26, 29 Oslo, 125 Oslo Accords, 70, 73, 75, 82, 125, 127 Oslo process, 127 Owl of Minerva, 189 Pacific Rim, 53 Pakistan, 35, 57, 106–107, 116, 153, 160, 192 Palau, 86, 128, 141 Palestine, 71, 79, 99, 101, 103, 117, 127–128, 161, 184–185 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), 125 Panetta, Leon, 59 Pantucci, Raffaello, 81 Parry, Robert, 110 Pashtuns, 116 Peace Union of Finland, 85 Pearl Harbor, 29 Peck, James, 45, 48 People’s Summit, 54 Peres, Shimon, 127 Peri, Yoram, 69 Petersen, Alexandros, 81 Petrov, Stanislav, 164 Philippines, 108 Phoenicia, 189 Portugal, 42, 121 Powell, Lewis, 39 Power, Samantha, 132 Pretoria, 156 Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, 158 Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), 21, 22 Putin, Vladimir V., 129, 169, 171 Rabbani, Mouin, 183 Rabin, Yitzhak, 125, 127 Rafah Crossing, 74, 75 Raz, Avi, 77 Reagan, Ronald, 32, 109–111, 163, 175 Red Crescent, 46 Reilly, John, 23 Republicans, 28, 135–136 Riedel, Bruce, 35 Rio+20 Conference, 54 Roberts, Leslie, 106 Rocker, Rudolf, 146, 149 Romney, Mitt, 64, 83 Rose, Frank, 141 Ross, Dennis, 87, 126, 128 Rousseff, Dilma, 121 Roy, Sara, 72, 101 Rubinstein, Danny, 127 Rudoren, Jodi, 141 Rumsfeld, Donald, 178 Russia, 23, 25, 33, 56, 61, 140, 163–164, 171–172 Ryan, Paul, 62 Sakharov, Andrei D., 47 Samidin, 76 San Diego, 158 Sanger, David E., 141 Santos, Juan Manuel, 42 Saudi Arabia, 23, 60, 166, 190 Scahill, Jeremy, 107 Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr., 55, 138 Schlosser, Eric, 164 Schneider, Nathan, 147 Seko, Mobutu Sese, 180 Shafi, Haidar Abdul, 125 Shalit, Gilad, 27, 79 Shane, Scott, 52 Shehadeh, Raja, 70, 99 Sick, Gary, 57 Silk Road, 85 Sinai Peninsula, 77 Singapore, 91 Smith, Adam, 38, 91, 146 Snowden, Edward J., 121–123, 157, 173–176 Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I., 47 Sourani, Raji, 71, 74, 82, 183 South Africa, 21, 25, 110, 155–156 South Vietnam, 29–30, 45 Soviet Union, 48, 164, 175 Spain, 121, 147 Sponeck, Hans von, 189 Stearns, Monteagle, 107 Stevenson, Adlai III, 161 Stiglitz, Joseph E., 38 Stratcom, 164–165 Stratfor, 46 Summer Olympics, 45 Sweden, 61 Swift, Jonathan, 62 Sykes-Picot Agreement, 115 Syria, 117, 131, 154, 177, 180, 189–190 Taiwan, 37, 91 Taksim Square, 118–119 Taliban, 178–179 Tehran, 65, 84, 141 Telhami, Shibley 141, 159 Tigris, 189 Trans-Pacific Partnership, 159 Trilateral Commission, 39 Tripoli, 137 Truman Doctrine, 175 Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar, 105 Turkey, 25, 33, 49, 56, 85, 118, 140, 170 U.K., 35 Ukraine, 169, 171 Union Carbide, 46 Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), 121 United Nations (U.N.), 30, 128, 132, 137 U.N.

The Key Man: The True Story of How the Global Elite Was Duped by a Capitalist Fairy Tale
by Simon Clark and Will Louch
Published 14 Jul 2021

Abraaj Investment Management Limited and Arif Naqvi, United States District Court, Southern District of New York, Case 1:19-cv-03244-AJN, August 16, 2019. CHAPTER 12: HEALTHY LIVES Africa for the first time: Bill Gates, “Giving the Mandela Lecture,” Gates Notes, July 17, 2016, www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Nelson-Mandela-Annual-Lecture organized the trip: Joss Kent, as told to Charlotte Metcalf, “Bill Gates and Me,” The Spectator, July 18, 2009. “we couldn’t ignore”: Bill Gates, “Giving the Mandela Lecture,” Gates Notes, July 17, 2016, www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Nelson-Mandela-Annual-Lecture Bill wrote: Bill Gates, “Warren Buffett’s Best Investment,” GatesNotes, February 14, 2017, www.gatesnotes.com/2017-annual-letter health at the center: Nicholas D.

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On a Wednesday evening in April 2014, Arif settled into a front-row seat at Oxford’s New Theatre to watch the opening film of the Skoll conference. Sir Ronald Cohen, the British impact investing pioneer who was inspiring governments and the Vatican to join his movement, sat next to Arif. Words appeared on the cinema screen. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” The smiling face of Nelson Mandela, the first Black president of South Africa, flashed up. Rousing music accompanied images of human progress through history—a stone flour mill, a steam locomotive, an electric light, an astronaut walking in space. Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize laureate who pioneered providing microloans to poor people in Bangladesh, appeared on the screen.

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The children in Africa were dying because they were poor. To us, it was the most unjust thing in the world.” Bill’s colossal wealth opened doors to important political leaders around the world. They briefed him and some asked for help in the distant lands where living standards were so different from America. Bill first spoke to Nelson Mandela in 1994, and the South African president and former freedom fighter asked him for funding for his country’s first democratic election. Bill and Melinda’s determination to take action to solve poverty was reaffirmed in 1997 when they read an article in the New York Times. Under the headline “For Third World, Water Is Still a Deadly Drink,” the journalist Nicholas Kristof put health at the center of the global poverty problem.

Conflicted: How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes
by Ian Leslie
Published 23 Feb 2021

The men were members of competing factions within the South African far right, who shared a belief in the genetic superiority of white Afrikaners. The Afrikaners, many of whom were ex-military and had fought in the war against Angola, were uniting forces against what they saw as a hostile black takeover of their country. Just over three years previously, the South African government had released Nelson Mandela from prison after twenty-seven years, following intense domestic and international pressure. They had also legalised his party, the African National Congress (ANC). Apartheid, the system that enabled the country’s white minority to rule South Africa and exclude its black majority, was on its way out.

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One of the most powerful social skills is the ability to give face: to confirm the public image that the other person wishes to project. You don’t need to be selfless to think this is important. In any conversation, when the other person feels their desired face is being accepted and confirmed, they’re going to be a lot easier to deal with, and more likely to listen to what you have to say. Nelson Mandela was a genius of facework, particularly when it came to the art of giving face. His elaborate show of courtesy towards Viljoen was strategic. He knew that difficult conversations lay ahead between him and the former general, and a less sophisticated operator would have got straight into them. Mandela knew he had some work to do first

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He then had to sell that vision to his own side, taking enormous risks with his ‘face’. What Mandela did was help Viljoen realise that he did not have to surrender his identity. He could be part of the nation and still be proudly himself: an Afrikaner, a military veteran, a South African citizen. Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as president in May 1994, and a new parliament opened, one that reflected the racial diversity of South Africa: two-thirds of the new representatives were black. Viljoen himself had won a seat, after his party picked up nine seats in the election. John Carlin, who was there for the opening, watched Mandela walk into a chamber that had previously been all-white and overwhelmingly male and which now embodied the diversity of South Africa.

No Such Thing as Society
by Andy McSmith
Published 19 Nov 2010

Dammers also devoted three years to putting together another Special AKA album, In The Studio, issued in 1984, which was a commercial failure, though one track has enduring fame. This was ‘Free Nelson Mandela’, a rare example of a popular song that called for the release of a political prisoner. The venture left the record company with heavy debts. Dammers stopped making records and diverted his energies into Artists Against Apartheid. He was the main organizer of a concert held in Wembley Stadium in 1988 to mark Mandela’s seventieth birthday. Mandela spent his birthday in prison, with no release date, which Spitting Image noted by making a spoof version of the Dammers song in which, instead of singing ‘Free Nelson Mandela’, latex puppets with Afrikaans accents sang ‘still basically locked up Nelson Mandela’.

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People who were basking in the experience of having ‘loadsamoney’ may have been selfish, but they were not trying to force everyone else to be like them. Race and sexuality were the greatest social issues of the 1980s, and on both counts society was more liberal at the end of the decade than at the start. In the final years of Nelson Mandela’s long imprisonment an increasing number of white Britons saw him as a prisoner of conscience, despite the prime minister’s unchanging belief that he was the head of a terrorist organization. It is claimed that gays suffered a setback at the government’s hands with the introduction of Clause 28, which banned local authorities from ‘promoting’ homosexuality.

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Mandela spent his birthday in prison, with no release date, which Spitting Image noted by making a spoof version of the Dammers song in which, instead of singing ‘Free Nelson Mandela’, latex puppets with Afrikaans accents sang ‘still basically locked up Nelson Mandela’. Elvis Costello, who had produced The Specials’ debut album, also had a huge hit in 1979 with an anti-militarist song called ‘Oliver’s Army’, and in 1983 he had a hit under the pseudonym ‘The Imposter’ with the track ‘Pills and Soap’, which was aimed at putting voters off re-electing Thatcher. The news that the government, during the Falklands War, suddenly reopened the shipyards that they had been ruthlessly running down – in order to build warships to replace those lost in the South Atlantic – inspired Costello to write a sarcastic number entitled ‘Shipbuilding’, with the lines: ‘It’s just a rumour spread around town by the women and children that soon we’ll be shipbuilding’.

When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
by Richard D. Lewis
Published 1 Jan 1996

Changing Notions of Leadership In the twenty-first century, with multinationals and conglomerates expanding their global reach, corporate governance and international teams will learn a lot about leading multicultural enterprises and workforces. The new impetus provided by fresh managers from Asia, Russia, Poland, Hungary, East European states, Latin America and Africa will change notions of leadership as will the increasing number of women in management positions. At cross-century, two of the world’s most respected leaders—Nelson Mandela and Kofi Annan—were African. The ultimate numerical superiority of nonwhite leaders, already significant in the political world, will permeate business. Based on Singapore’s commercial success and development within a given time frame, Lee Kuan Yew stakes a reasonable claim to have been the most successful “manager” of the last three decades of the twentieth century.

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Japanese samurai, in their allegiance to their lord, were faithful unto death and demonstrated that quality regularly, as indeed did the cavalry and foot soldiers of Napoleon Bonaparte. Great leaders captivated willing disciples through sheer charisma—Alexander the Great, Caesar, Tamerlane, Hernan Cortés, Simón Bolívar, Kemal Atatürk, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Chou-en-Lai and Nelson Mandela are a few who come to mind. In the modern era, business leaders have occasionally shown the charismatic and visionary leadership that attracts loyal followers; examples are Henry Ford, Akio Morita, Konosuke Matsushita and Richard Branson. Religion has also played a major role in mass-motivation throughout the historical era.

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Furthermore, among the 50 percent who are already urbanized, there is a substantial and rapidly growing middle class. Their access to government posts and the international contact this will bring AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND SOUTH AFRICA 217 will quickly add to their experience and sophistication. Nelson Mandela himself is a shining example of a black South African politician. South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) is already four times that of the combined GDP of the ten other countries of southern Africa. Black South Africans Because black South Africans are playing—and will continue to play—such a vital role in the development of the nation, I will emphasize this group above the whites, Indians, and Coloureds.

Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World
by Mark Vanhoenacker
Published 14 Aug 2022

“Every Thursday at 4 p.m.” is widely associated with the Union-Castle liners; see, for example, The Port of Southampton, by Ian Collard. I described a little of the Union-Castle history in my first book, Skyfaring. Nelson Mandela’s description of Cape Town and Robben Island from above appears in Part 8, Chapter 59 of his Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (which I’m grateful to my stepmother for giving me, one Christmas long ago). The description of Krotoa as a “peacebroker” is by Nobhongo Gxolo in “The History of Van Riebeek’s Slave Krotoa Unearthed from the Masters’ View,” published on the website of the Mail & Guardian on September 5, 2016.

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To reach Robben Island on that long-ago trip, Mark and I went down to the harbor, past the stacks of shipping containers—many of which, once they’re taken out of use, are repurposed elsewhere in the city as shelters, and as small venues for shops and hairdressers—and took one of the boats that run out to it. The island had already been a notorious prison for centuries before Nelson Mandela’s incarceration there began in 1964. In his autobiography he describes the view from the windows of an unheated military plane: “Soon, we could see the little matchbox houses of the Cape Flats, the gleaming towers of downtown, and the horizontal top of Table Mountain. Then, out in Table Bay, in the dark blue waters of the Atlantic, we could make out the misty outline of Robben Island.”

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The festival led to boycotts and protests, with the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress calling instead for “A National Day of Pledge and Prayer.” Two and a half months after the tercentenary, on June 26, 1952, the Defiance Campaign was launched against apartheid, with Nelson Mandela as one of its founders. As an artistic and cultural phenomenon, blue’s ancient history is spottier than that of most colors. For example, no blue was used in Greek ceramics; indeed, William Gladstone, the British politician and classicist, once believed that the ancient Greeks—despite the stunning colors of their home skies and waters—were blue-blind, incapable of seeing the color, in part because they so rarely described the sea as such (“wine-dark” being the most famous Homeric phrasing).

England: Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight
by Tom Baldwin and Marc Stears
Published 24 Apr 2024

There is an image of the portable spinning wheel for cotton designed by Mahatma Gandhi in resistance to the laws of the British Empire, as well as the loudhailer used by the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, Harvey Milk. Another chair shows the house in Yangon where Aung San Suu Kyi was held under house arrest in Myanmar and a xiezhi, a legendary figure in Chinese mythology symbolising justice. Still more show Nelson Mandela’s prison cell on Robben Island, the Exxon Valdez tanker whose oil spill led to new environmental principles, the emancipation of Russian serfs, a boat carrying refugees and another filled with slaves, a place used by British police to imprison indigenous Australians, protesters fighting for the release of political dissidents, the ancient Egyptian goddess of truth and some Chinese script describing Confucian principles of humanity.

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But the message visitors are supposed to take away from such a memorial is that Magna Carta and liberty in England are part of the global battle waged through the ages by the people against the powerful. This has always been bitterly contested territory. Those for whom it is enough that the king is subject to the law do not need a new monument telling them about Nelson Mandela or Harvey Milk. Others, including some Marxist historians, see Magna Carta and the execution of a king as being about a clash between emerging economic interests because the civil war – like every war and everything – is ‘class war’. Still more believe Magna Carta came to symbolise a fundamental belief that it was not enough for the king to be subject to the law but that the law itself should serve the people.

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Even more tenuous are efforts to link Wilberforce with great deeds done elsewhere. A Humanitarian Wall has been built at Hull University’s Institute on Slavery round the back of the Museum which is made up of stones engraved with the name of Wilberforce and other people who have fought for freedom around the world. They include the likes of Nelson Mandela, Sylvia Pankhurst, Abraham Lincoln and Dr Martin Luther King. One of the stones on this ‘Humanitarian Wall’ has been covered up with what looks like a piece of laminated cardboard so that no one can see it says ‘Aung San Suu Kyi’, whose status as Myanmar’s democracy icon was tarnished by the succour she gave to genocidal attacks on the Rohingya minority.

The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters
by Rose George
Published 13 Oct 2008

“I think for us to come to terms with the fact that we go to the toilet would be quite easy. It only needs a few movie stars to talk openly about it.” Talk to anyone who is trying to improve the world’s sanitation, and this idea will become a refrain. We need a champion. A Bono or a Geldof. A Nelson Mandela or an Angelina Jolie. A film star or a politician who has the courage to talk about toilets, when most people only want to talk about faucets. The Netherlands-based International Water and Sanitation Center recently listed celebrities who do charity work for water. Hollywood star Matt Damon has launched the NGO H2O, whose mission is to “bring clean water to Africa.”

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HIV/AIDS killed fewer children than sanitation-related disease, but sanitation was nowhere to be seen. An impact needed to be made. At the AfricaSan conference, a video was played. It showed an old man washing the hands of a young girl. It was nothing that hadn’t been seen on a thousand UNICEF videos. Then the camera pulled away and the old man was shown to be Nelson Mandela, who said, “Now we must all wash our hands.” In the words of one audience member, the effect was “Wow. Bang.” (That a not very creative video could be “Wow” showed how stagnant and unloved the sanitation sector felt.) The effect was strengthened by colorful photo opportunities, including one that featured Richard Jolly and Ronnie Kasrils seated on toilets brandishing toilet paper.

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The flight attendant says, “We have landed in Cape Town. If that’s not where you want to be, that’s your problem.” We do want to be here, partly to meet Trevor’s daughter, the presidential hopeful. We’re also here to meet Shoni, an old acquaintance who got in touch after hearing the radio interview. Shoni is a manager at Robben Island, Nelson Mandela’s former prison, and gives us free tickets to visit. “I can’t accompany you, I’m afraid,” he says over dinner. “I have to take the president of Singapore on a tour.” The next morning, we arrive at Robben Island as the president is leaving. Trevor tells people that he runs the South African Toilet Organization, though there isn’t yet any such thing.

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs
by Kerry Howley
Published 21 Mar 2023

He did not have clothes suitable for employment, but Reality would work on that; she had her mother take Carlos shopping for khakis and a polo. “Reality takes in a lot of strays,” says her mother, “and I don’t mean just animals.” She was a talented, stylish painter, and her most frequent subjects were herself, Nelson Mandela, and Jesus. She was an inveterate smasher of phones. She threw one across the room while talking to her father, who struggled with an addiction to painkillers and who she sensed was stoned, and cracked another one falling from a tree she’d climbed in a fit of whimsy. A third phone met its fate when it simply wasn’t working.

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She fretted about the low calorie intake of a pregnant inmate, asked her mother to contribute to the commissary funds of the others. Joe Whitley brought her stacks of books. She began teaching herself Latin from a textbook in order to read Ovid in the original; above her bunk, stuck to the wall with toothpaste, was a picture of Nelson Mandela. She is a person who needs quiet, but the room was always loud; she got the women into Breaking Bad so she could at least have an hour’s peace when it was on. She meditated and whispered mantras: Inhale suffering, exhale sunlight. Sometimes they were directed at specific forms of suffering: Inhale hunger, exhale for families in Syria.

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Still under supervised release, he had slipped beneath public view, and it was possible to imagine for him a privacy remarkably inviolate, a kind of ancient space in which he could pray and remain apart from reality. Prison is the erasure of personal context and every battle therein is a battle to reclaim it. That Reality Winner was allowed her small space in order to hang a picture of Nelson Mandela was a small mercy in that it reminded her of an identity she had once had, something that put space between her and a caged body with animal needs. Her mail helped, though nothing helped as much as the daily phone calls to Billie and Wendy and Britty. That was what made it possible to get through the long days of small cruelties from the guards and boredom and the endless hours inside.

The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House
by Ben Rhodes
Published 4 Jun 2018

“We’re half in on Middle East peace, on Syria, on Egypt, on the pursuit of a nuclear agreement with Iran. We have to go big.” He asked me to follow him back to his private dining room, where we could continue the conversation while he ate lunch. There on the wall was a painting of Lincoln, deep in thought, consulting Grant at the height of the Civil War; a photo of Obama meeting Nelson Mandela; a pair of boxing gloves used by Muhammad Ali. Obama sat at the table while I remained standing. I worried that I was overstepping my bounds. On Middle East peace, he told me, he had tried repeatedly, but Bibi wouldn’t make a deal. On Syria, he kept asking for them, but there were no good options.

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In one of the more brazen acts that I’d experienced in my job, the Emirati ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al Otaiba—a man treated as a leading voice on the affairs of the region in the corridors of power in Washington—sent me a photo of a poster that cast Patterson in this light with no other message attached. Morsi sounded tired but defiant as Obama spoke to him from the makeshift NSC office. Obama urged him to do something to reach out to his growing opposition, some gesture at a unity government that could hold the country together. “You know,” he said, “I just left South Africa, where Nelson Mandela is in the hospital and is very sick. You know when he came to power he could have gone to the white minority in South Africa and said, ‘We are now the majority and we’re going to do what we want. We’ll follow the rules but you are a small minority in this country.’ But he didn’t do this. He went out of his way to reach out to the minority.

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As with intervention in Syria, my heart wasn’t entirely in it anymore. I could tell which way the argument was going to go, and which way events were going. Obama was the most powerful man in the world, but that didn’t mean he could control the forces at play in the Middle East. There was no Nelson Mandela who could lead a country to absolution for its sins and ours. Extremist forces were exploiting the Arab Spring. Reactionary forces—with deep reservoirs of political support in the United States—were intent on clinging to power. Bashar al-Assad was going to fight to the death, backed by his Russian and Iranian sponsors.

Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa
by Paul Kenyon
Published 1 Jan 2018

Mugabe, who at one stage had considered entering the priesthood, was still unsure of his own future. At the age of twenty-five he won a scholarship to Fort Hare University College in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, an elite establishment that would ignite the political senses of several future African nationalist leaders. The ANC’s Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo had studied there ten years earlier, and when Mugabe arrived, he was plunged into a campus burning with anti-imperialist fervour. He devoured Marxist literature and became captivated by Mahatma Ghandi and Jawaharlal Nehru’s campaign of nonviolence in India. But Mugabe was still deeply conservative.

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Gone was the quiet restraint, the gentle tug on the sleeve that counselled ‘no’ to his wildest schemes, the homely feasts of custard and tea on the veranda. In marched a princess who thought she was entitled to whatever she wished. Grace Mugabe’s marriage to the Zimbabwean president in 1996 was billed, by state-controlled Zimbabwe papers, as the ‘wedding of the century’. Six thousand guests arrived in Harare from across the world, including Nelson Mandela. It wasn’t long before the new First Lady began taking advantage of her position. Mugabe himself had toured the country searching for land for his new wife even before the wedding. Now she joined him. First to catch her eye was a 1,000-acre estate called Highfields, which she bought from a willing seller.

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On the rough ground in front of the bombed-out building, he erected a defiant memorial, a 15-foot golden arm with its fist crushing an F-111. It became a backdrop for countless speeches, photo-calls and visits from international statesmen, some more surprising than others. After being released from a South African jail in 1990, Nelson Mandela was eager to visit Gaddafi to thank him personally for helping train and fund ANC fighters. Brushing aside a UN air ban on Libya, Mandela gained access by road, driving across the border from Tunisia. Gaddafi’s international reputation was at an all-time low, and he seized the moment for a PR coup: the universally admired African leader meets the misunderstood outcast.

The Geek Feminist Revolution
by Kameron Hurley
Published 1 Jan 2016

But you can be less of an enemy, a more welcoming villain, a force for good and change who fades quietly ahead of the onslaught of new, more powerful voices you helped over the wall. You can learn how to get out of the way, instead of impeding them. Terrorist or Revolutionary? Deciding Who Gets to Write History Before he was the first democratically elected president of South Africa and a symbol for peaceful resistance, Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. This is not rhetoric, or a purposefully inflammatory statement. It’s just fact. The government of South Africa and the U.S. government, among others, categorized the African National Congress, the party to which Mandela belonged, as a terrorist organization, and Mandela and his colleagues were terrorists.

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If I shut the fuck up, then all the people you quote, all the people who write the postnarrative, the big pieces that folks look back on to create the history and narrative of an event, even a successful one, will be made by the powerful, influential people who believe their hurt feelings at being called out as problematic somehow outweigh the concerns of an entire community of folks with no media pull and no platform whose voices have been marginalized their whole lives and who are now being reduced to a crazy, screaming, angry mob acting up out of nowhere instead of a passionate community of folks reacting to an event they see as existing on a problematic continuum. We have a strange habit of falling back on “civility,” as if every social movement was entirely civil. Like unions didn’t bust up on scabs. Like Nelson Mandela didn’t blow shit up.5 Like MLK would tell us all to shut the fuck up,6 and women never chained themselves to the fences in city squares, stormed political buildings, or committed acts of arson and violence in an effort to achieve suffrage. Surprise! My specialization is in the history of revolutionary movements, and let me tell you, folks—being nice and holding hands didn’t get shit done.

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Cora Buhlert, “The media spin machine at full power or This is totally not what happened,” corabuhlert.com, http://corabuhlert.com/2014/03/07/the-media-spin-machine-at-full-power-or-this-is-totally-not-what-happened/. 4. Michael Hogan, “It really is time people stopped hating Jonathan Ross,” The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/10679808/It-really-is-time-people-stopped-hating-Jonathan-Ross.html. 5. Douglas O. Linder, “The Nelson Mandela (Rivonia) Trial: An Account,” University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) School of Law, http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/mandela/mandelaaccount.html. 6. Matt Berman, “The Forgotten, Radical Martin Luther King Jr.” National Journal, http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/the-forgotten-radical-martin-luther-king-jr-20140120.

The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
by Cathy O'Neil
Published 15 Mar 2022

GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT white cops defend a marauding colleague: Jamil Zaki, The War for Kindness: Building Empathy in a Fractured World (New York: Crown, 2019), 134. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Forgiveness”: K. Thelwell, “9 inspiring Nelson Mandela quotes on forgiveness,” The Borgen Project, November 5, 2019, https://borgenproject.org/​nelson-mandela-quotes-on-forgiveness/. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT missteps shouldn’t plunge us into everlasting shame: In Hiding from Humanity, Martha C. Nussbaum masterfully argues against the explicit use of shame and disgust in our penal code on legal, moral, and ethical grounds.

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And usually, when a person errs, nobody feels it more deeply than they do. So treat them the way you’d want others to treat you when you screw up, and respect their dignity as human beings. Forgiveness is in many ways the flip side of shame. While shame rips open wounds, forgiveness has the power to heal them. “Forgiveness,” Nelson Mandela wrote, “liberates the soul. It removes fear…. That’s why it’s such a powerful weapon.” But like empathy, it’s hard and inconsistent. As I write this, I’m thinking about a prisoner named Oscar Jones. I’d gotten to know him, because I helped to analyze the recidivism algorithms that unfairly perpetuated his decades-long confinement in federal prison.

Worth Dying For: The Power and Politics of Flags
by Tim Marshall
Published 21 Sep 2016

One of those decisions was made by Fred. He is a quiet, unassuming man, not prone to flights of fancy or hyperbole, which is perhaps why, when the challenge came, he rose to it. His moment began when the phone rang at his home in Pretoria on a Saturday night in February 1994. President de Klerk was on his way out, Nelson Mandela was already out of prison and about to rise to the highest office in the land, and the new South Africa needed a new flag. The existing one had been based on the Dutch flag and was so identified with both colonialism and the apartheid government that it had to go. The phone call came after 7,000 designs had been rejected and the ideas of graphic design studios had failed to come up with the answer.

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Acutely aware of the sensitivities of the decision, he felt it was not one he could take on his own, and so showed them to a hastily convened Cabinet meeting, which chose the version we now know. This was then sent to the chief ANC negotiator, Cyril Ramaphosa. He, understanding that the decision on what would be the symbolic embodiment of the new nation needed to have the blessing of the physical embodiment of the new era, in turn faxed it to Nelson Mandela. At this point one of those fascinating details of history enters the story. This was before emails were in widespread use and faxes were in black and white. Fred chuckled as he retold what happened next, although at the time he was oblivious to it. ‘Mr Mandela was up in the north-east when the fax came through.

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There were about 100,000 flagpoles in the country, all of which would require the new flag to be flown on the day of the changeover, but the country could only produce 5,000 a week, which would leave three-quarters of the flagpoles embarrassingly naked. Dutch factories stepped in and saved the day, but not before using up Europe’s stock of flag-making materials. And the result? ‘There was initially a muted reaction from the public’, says the designer, but in the weeks between polling day and Nelson Mandela’s inauguration as President, the design and the colours began to seep into the collective consciousness: ‘Within a matter of two or three weeks attitudes changed, and in many cases people began to have a fond attachment to it. Now people have bought into it – after all, colours are a psychological component of life, part of the essence of life.’

Information: A Very Short Introduction
by Luciano Floridi
Published 25 Feb 2010

Guelzo LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews LITERARYTHEORY Jonathan Culler LOCKE John Dunn LOGIC Graham Priest MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MARX Peter Singer MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers THE MEANING OF LIFE TerryEagleton MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster MODERN ART David Cottington MODERN CHINA RanaMitter MODERN IRELAND Senia Paseta MODERN JAPAN Christopher Goto-Jones MOLECULES Philip Ball MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman MUSIC Nicholas Cook MYTH Robert A. Segal NATIONALISM Steven Crosby NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer NEOLI BERALISM Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE Kyle Keefer NEWTON RobertIliffe NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew THE NORMAN CONQUEST George Garnett NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland NOTHING Frank Close NUCLEAR WEAPONS Joseph M.

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Antisemitism 173. Game Theory 174. HIV/AIDS 175. Documentary Film 176. Modern China 177. The Quakers 178. German Literature 179. Nuclear Weapons 180. Law 181. The Old Testament 182. Galaxies 183. Mormonism 184. Religion in America 185. Geography 186. The Meaning of Life 187. Sexuality 188. Nelson Mandela 189. Science and Religion 190. Relativity 191. History of Medicine 192. Citizenship 193. The History of Life 194. Memory 195. Autism 196. Statistics 197. Scotland 198. Catholicism 199. The United Nations 200. Free Speech 201. The Apocryphal Gospels 202. Modern Japan 203. Lincoln 204.

Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Crawford, Dorothy H.
Published 27 Jul 2011

James MODERN ART • David Cottington MODERN C Portals of virus entry into the human body–0SHINA • Rana Mitter MODERN IRELAND • Senia Paseta MODERN JAPAN • Christopher Goto-Jones MODERNISM • Christopher Butler MOLECULES • Philip Ball MORMONISM • Richard Lyman Bushman MUSIC • Nicholas Cook MYTH • Robert A. Segal NATIONALISM • Steven Grosby NELSON MANDELA • Elleke Boehmer NEOLIBERALISM • Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE NEW TESTAMENT • Luke Timothy Johnson THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE • Kyle Keefer NEWTON • Robert Iliffe NIETZSCHE • Michael Tanner NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN • Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew THE NORMAN CONQUEST • George Garnett NORTHERN IRELAND • Marc Mulholland NOTHING • Frank Close NUCLEAR WEAPONS • Joseph M.

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Antisemitism 173. Game Theory 174. HIV/AIDS 175. Documentary Film 176. Modern China 177. The Quakers 178. German Literature 179. Nuclear Weapons 180. Law 181. The Old Testament 182. Galaxies 183. Mormonism 184. Religion in America 185. Geography 186. The Meaning of Life 187. Sexuality 188. Nelson Mandela 189. Science and Religion 190. Relativity 191. The History of Medicine 192. Citizenship 193. The History of Life 194. Memory 195. Autism 196. Statistics 197. Scotland

Help
by Simon Amstell
Published 15 Jan 2017

At the end of last year, I was promoting my stand-up special numb on the Radio 1 breakfast show. It happened to be the morning of Nelson Mandela’s death, which of course was very sad and shocking news. Even though he was ninety-five and human. I was asked not to make any jokes about it, which confused and upset me because I’m not an insensitive lunatic, I’m a brilliant, vulnerable clown. On the way to the studio, I walked past the ‘urban’ music station, 1 Xtra, where I saw black people in a booth (this is not their jingle). Then I arrived at the Radio 1 studio, which was exclusively white people in a booth. Nelson Mandela had just died. Black people in one booth, white people in a separate, nicer booth.

Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil
by Nicholas Shaxson
Published 20 Mar 2007

It mentioned “Scratcher” (alleged to be Mark Thatcher, the son of the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher), a J. H. Archer— allegedly the former British Conservative Party politician Jeffrey Archer64— among others. Archer denies involvement,65 but Thatcher, no friend of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (his mother once called Nelson Mandela a “terrorist”), was arrested at his luxury home in Cape Town. The letter said: Our situation is not good and it is very URGENT. [The lawyers] get no reply from Smelly [alleged to be Ely Calil—who strongly denies any involvement in the plot], and Scratcher asked them to ring back after the Grand Prix race was over!

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When I asked him an admittedly illinformed question, he turned on Guilherme. “How can you bring people like this to me?” he repeated twice, very loudly. Guilherme quailed. I switched to a more personal note. Who did Fradique admire most, I asked. “Myself!” he answered, straight away. “I am joking, of course!” he guffawed, and settled for Nelson Mandela. The interview settled down. Fradique said that he had never intended to be president. “When I leave office I will return to my business, and I can live in freedom.” I put to him what his enemies said: he wants to be king of oil; he is autocratic, undisciplined, and does not listen. Fradique cut me off angrily before I could finish.

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He married in 1990 and took another wife in 1996 (later admitting that he had a “tendency of having four wives,” adding that he was more in love with the struggle than with anything else, including his wives). Asari has claimed: “Today in most of our villages you’ll find out that most of our ladies have gone into prostitution. Things that were unheard of before like homosexuality are being practiced. The Ijaw man is slowly being killed by the Nigerian state.” Among his heroes he cites not only Nelson Mandela but also Osama bin Laden; he has put up at least one poster of the Saudi militant, and even named one of his children Osama.10 Mandela and Bin Laden “fought against the arrogance of men who were playing God,” Asari said. “Apartheid was, ‘God gave the white man authority to rule the black man because the black man is not human’; for America it’s, ‘our civilization is superior . . . so we must impose our way of life, our civilization, on all people, whether they like it or not.’

Rich White Men: What It Takes to Uproot the Old Boys' Club and Transform America
by Garrett Neiman
Published 19 Jun 2023

When Harvard Business School classmates and I visited one of South Africa’s richest people in Cape Town as part of a study trip, I also started to see how the compounding unearned advantages of whiteness also accrue to those of European descent in other nations. Known for its natural beauty, Cape Town boasts some of the world’s finest scenery, restaurants, and wineries. It is the largest city in a country that toppled apartheid in 1994 and elected Nelson Mandela as its first Black president of a new multiethnic government. Yet despite its progress, South Africa remains among the world’s most unequal countries. Millionaires and billionaires live on large estates while a quarter of the population lives on less than $3.20 a day.20 Almost all the millionaires are white, and almost everyone in poverty is Black.

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And investing in our citizens would fuel innovation and shared prosperity: if such investments yielded millions of additional knowledge workers and even a few more innovations—like three-light traffic signals, refrigerated trucks, automatic elevator doors, electret microphones, carbon light bulb filaments, IBM PC monitors, and Gigahertz chips, all invented by Black Americans—how much would this country gain? Most of the rich white men I know act as if poverty is a necessary, insurmountable evil. On countless occasions, they’ve told me it is impossible to end poverty. However, this is a myth. “Like slavery and apartheid,” Nelson Mandela once said, “poverty is not natural. It is manmade and it can be overcome and eradicated by the action of human beings.”43 We rich white men have the power and resources to abolish poverty if we take it on directly. And if we don’t take that initiative, I hope the rest of America will demand that those in power take action.

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CHAPTER 17 TRANSFORMING THE POWER STRUCTURE I promise you, you’ll see the most diverse cabinet, representative of all folks—Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, LGBTQ—across the board. —JOE BIDEN, FORTY-SIXTH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MYTH: Equity can be achieved by diversifying the current power structure. A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged. —NELSON MANDELA, SOUTH AFRICAN ANTIAPARTHEID REVOLUTIONARY AND FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA REALITY: Diversifying the current power structure is necessary but not sufficient. On a Sunday evening in September 2018, Pooja and I arrived at the Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts.

The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
by Thomas Frank
Published 5 Aug 2008

In this respect, the IFF was merely a large-scale replay of the political entrepreneurship we saw at the USAF, with Jack and the gang yet again hiring themselves out to a wealthy client to perform a hit on a troublesome left-wing group.12 High points in this campaign included hearings by the House Republican Study Committee in 1987 to blame “the plight of the children of South Africa” on the commie-terrorist ANC; reports playing up the ANC’s commie-derived taste for atrocities against kids; newspaper ads designed to throw cold water on Nelson Mandela during his triumphant visit to America in 1990; and an endless war on Ted Kennedy, a leading proponent of the 1986 sanctions.13 All of this specifically South African stuff was mixed in with a large quantity of standard-issue winger-talk. The IFF manifesto was a 1987 statement bearing the ultimate conservative seal of approval: a photo of Jack Abramoff proudly shaking hands with Ronald Reagan.

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A handful of genuine thinkers did actually publish pieces in International Freedom Review, the group’s respectable-looking American magazine, but for the most part it was a showplace for pontifications by Congress’s rightmost members, gripes about betrayal from embittered South Africans, and gussied-up undergraduate term papers. It was also a showplace for the right’s unrelenting suspicion toward the world. Nothing was as it seemed; everything was an act of cold-war trickery or deception. International Freedom Review featured articles with titles like “Getting Beyond the [Nelson] Mandela Smokescreen” and “Afghanistan: Has Reagan Sold Out the Mujahideen?” In issue number one, a redbaiting book coauthored by Dinesh D’Souza is lauded as a well-observed description of how the sly Soviets are “manipulating public opinion” in the United States. In issue number two, the IFF lavishes its highest praise on Requiem in the Tropics—a feverish tract the foundation also happened to be selling via mail order—describing it as “the book they don’t want you to read.”

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What would come after the white-minority regime was anyone’s guess, and a mania for “scenario planning” swept over the South African business community as its leaders tried to set the stage for a favorable outcome.27 The government privatized and downsized itself, even dismantling its collection of atomic bombs, working frantically to close off the possibility that some future South African government might nationalize basic industries (as Nelson Mandela confirmed in 1990 that the ANC still planned to do) or take some other costly step toward social democracy.28 The ideal scenario espoused by the IFF addressed just these fears: a country where everyone could vote but where those votes had no bearing on private property. Foundation publications constantly offered advice for the framers of a future South African constitution, recommending, for example, that it include “clauses establishing and protecting free enterprise.”29 White supremacy was not going to survive for long, but with a covering barrage of free-market propaganda, the country’s ruling class might yet come through the revolution unscathed.

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
by Jason Stearns
Published 29 Mar 2011

Kabila refused to meet in Gabon or the Republic of Congo, fearing a French-backed assassination plot in its former colonies. Mobutu could not travel to South Africa because of his health. Finally, both parties agreed on a meeting on the South African navy ship Outenika, anchored just off the coast. South African president Nelson Mandela would mediate. Since Mobutu was unable to walk the thirty-one steps onto the boat, the hosts had to cobble together a plank strong enough for Mobutu’s limousine to be driven on board. For once, Mobutu was outshone in superstition. Laurent Kabila refused to look into his eyes during the meeting and instead stared at the ceiling; according to the prevailing rumor, he was afraid that the Old Leopard still had enough magical power left to curse him with his stare and prevent him from reaching his prize, now so close.

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There was little culture of democratic debate, and the one-party elections under Mobutu had hinged on cults of personality, ethnic politics, and the corruption of key opinion makers. An immediate opening to multiparty democracy and elections in this context could have led to a rebound by the Mobutists. Even Nelson Mandela, the dean of African democracy, deemed it “suicidal” for Kabila to allow free party activities before he had a firm grip on the government.6 A group of visiting U.S. congresspeople accepted Kabila’s measures, saying that the country needed stability first, even if it meant suppressing political protests in the short term.7 Kabila himself addressed these matters with typical flair during his inauguration speech: “You see, that’s very nice all that.

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In addition, another Angolan rebel movement, the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC), appeared to be making inroads in Cabinda, a tiny Angolan enclave just north of the Kitona airbase, where around 60 percent of Angola’s oil is drilled, providing it with about half of all national revenues. According to French government officials, FLEC had been in touch with the Rwandan government before the Kitona airlift.21 The diplomatic tug-of-war continued for several days, with South African president Nelson Mandela attempting to mediate between the two sides to prevent a continent-wide war breaking out. His attempt earned him the scorn of Mugabe, who told him to shut up if he didn’t want to help defend the Congo. Kabila’s office was equally blunt, suggesting that “age had taken its toll” on the venerable African leader.22 At Malik Kijege’s makeshift headquarters at the Tshatshi military camp, he began receiving distress calls from Tutsis hiding in Kinshasa.

Content Provider: Selected Short Prose Pieces, 2011–2016
by Stewart Lee
Published 1 Aug 2016

Of course, like those of Sepp Blatter, Eurovision’s tentacles are long and covered in suckers, and it is very useful for the organisation to have a public face that brings BAFTA-winning credibility to its tawdry TV competition. Just as Sepp Blatter paraded a grieving Nelson Mandela at the 2010 World Cup final in order to ennoble his vile carnival of ball control, so the presence of BAFTA-winning Graham Norton, TV’s Nelson Mandela of celebrity chat, at Eurovision lends the disgusting singing event a legitimacy it no longer deserves. Eurovision is nothing more than music’s FIFA. But what can be done with the bent football body now? Obviously this discredited organisation can’t be allowed to run a football franchise, but is it right to squander FIFA’s vast infrastructure?

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I checked the dates. Thatcher writes “open the back door for negotiations with the IRA” on documents dated 31 March 1982, 2 May 1982, 9 February 1985, 3 March 1985, 19 July 1987, 24 May 1988, and every 10 May, or the Friday nearest to it, throughout. On the first six dates, respectively, terrorist Nelson Mandela was moved out of sight to Pollsmoor prison; the Argentinian warship the General Belgrano was torpedoed outside the Falklands exclusion zone with the loss of 323 lives; Russ Abbott’s haunting pop single “Atmosphere” peaked at number 7 in the UK chart; the miners’ strike ended; Nick Faldo claimed victory in the Open; and the anti-gay Section 28 legislation was passed.

The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey Into China's Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future
by Geoffrey Cain
Published 28 Jun 2021

“The problem,” he told the class in May 2009, according to Maysem, “is that our government looks to the worst-case scenarios. They’re building a policy towards minorities based on fear and suspicion. But what about the best-case scenarios? What about the countries where minorities have been integrated and have become a part of these societies?” He told stories about Nelson Mandela and Abraham Lincoln to make his point. “He treated his students like he was a parent,” Jewher told me. “We always had students coming to our house. Dining with us. Cooking with us. My father even gave part of his salary to his students as money for the Eid holidays.” (Eid is the Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, when parents and elders are expected to give a little cash to younger people.)

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Xi was also proud of his military knowledge, having served as the assistant to the defense minister in the 1980s. Military might, he believed, was an expression of national power.16 “He has experienced much, and gone through many a difficult period,” said the Singaporean prime minister after meeting Xi in 2007. “I would put him in Nelson Mandela’s class of people. A person with enormous emotional stability who does not allow his personal misfortunes or sufferings to affect his judgment.”17 Xi had a powerful sense of history, and used it to frame his view of China’s future. “The five thousand years of Chinese civilization are an intellectual strength,” Xi said.

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We don’t want to work together to fight back. “And how about America? How about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln? Or Martin Luther King? How do you think they achieved what they achieved? They united so many Americans under a vision of what it means to be free and equal. And Charles de Gaulle? Nelson Mandela? Gandhi?” Now I could see how Maysem viewed her Uyghur world. It had no grand story, nothing to strive for—it was a fallen world. “We’re broken because we have no leader, no hero. They’re all in prison.” “And who is the leader that you want?” I asked. Both women, Maysem and her friend, snapped back almost in unison: “Ilham Tohti.”

Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating, Persuading, and Public Speaking
by Mehdi Hasan
Published 27 Feb 2023

As Dickerson said, “That was Bill Clinton showing that he understood her, empathized with her, had answers for her.” The empathetic listener is always “fully present,” says author Melody Wilding. They offer their undivided attention and are ready to put themselves in the shoes of others. Take Nelson Mandela. The late South African president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate gave what is considered to be one of the most consequential addresses of the twentieth century: the “I Am Prepared to Die” speech, a three-hour antiapartheid address he made as a codefendant at the Rivonia Trial in 1964. Yet those who knew him best are convinced he was an even better listener than he was a speaker.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. Here is Barack Obama at the memorial for Nelson Mandela—whose clan name was “Madiba”—in 2013. After this great liberator is laid to rest, and when we have returned to our cities and villages and rejoined our daily routines, let us search for his strength. Let us search for his largeness of spirit somewhere inside of ourselves. And when the night grows dark, when injustice weighs heavy on our hearts, when our best-laid plans seem beyond our reach, let us think of Madiba and the words that brought him comfort within the four walls of his cell: “It matters not how strait the gate, how charged [with punishments] the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.”

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“Every oration needs one,” said Samuel Rosenman, speechwriter for President Franklin Roosevelt. “A well-written peroration can clinch an argument or inspire confidence or lift morale.” Indeed, many of the greatest speeches in history are remembered above all for their stirring perorations, the final lines that we continue to quote to this day. Consider the historic final line of Nelson Mandela’s speech at the Rivonia Trial: “It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” Or the rousing conclusion of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. S Dream
by Gary Younge
Published 11 Aug 2013

The speeches we believe to be most decisive can come only from those speeches we have heard about. Those given by a poor woman in Swahili, Kurdish, or Quechua are far less likely to make it through the filter of race, sex, class, and language than those given by wealthy white men in English, French, or Spanish. One wonders whether Nelson Mandela’s most famous oration, before his conviction by apartheid South Africa’s Supreme Court on April 20, 1964 (“[Nonracial democracy] is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die”), would have been as fondly or well remembered had it been delivered in his native tongue of Xhosa or the nation’s most popular first language, Zulu, instead of English, its fourth most widely spoken.

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So that its conscience would collectively see as a nation the contradiction between the way it treated 12 percent of its population who are dark-skinned and the precepts and principles enshrined in our Declaration of Independence. And that recovery program enabled America to embark on the greatest political transformation in history.” So white America came to embrace King in the same way that most white South Africans came to accept Nelson Mandela—grudgingly and gratefully, retrospectively, selectively, without grace but with considerable guile. By the time they realized that their dislike of him was spent and futile, he had created a world in which admiring him was in their own self-interest. Because, in short, they had no choice. The only question remaining was what version of King should be honored.

The Rich and the Rest of Us
by Tavis Smiley
Published 15 Feb 2012

King had in mind when he suggested that justice is what love looks like in public. This is what John Coltrane had in mind when he composed “A Love Supreme.” This is what Toni Morrison had in mind when she wrote Beloved. This is what Dorothy Day had in mind when she embodied a dark and dangerous love. This is what Nelson Mandela had in mind when he opted for justice over revenge. This is what Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel had in mind when he spoke of the compassion of the Hebrew prophets. This is what Mahmoud Mohamed Taha had in mind when he preached of the mercy of Allah. This is what Mahatma Gandhi had in mind when he lived the loving soul force he talked about.

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Keller traveled internationally and testified before Congress to raise awareness and advocate for the blind and handicapped. It took the victory of one oppressed man to inspire the multitude and dismantle the oppressive apartheid system in South Africa. After 27 years in prison on charges of treason, Nelson Mandela emerged, resolve unbroken, as a symbol of resistance that inspired Black South Africans and the world. In 1990, South African president F. W. de Klerk ordered the release of Mandela. Still fiercely active at the age of 72, Mandela led negotiations with the minority government that resulted in the end of apartheid and the beginning of a multiracial government.

The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
Published 25 Feb 2020

Get offline and get to know your neighbors, people in the grocery line, or fellow commuters. Challenge your own assumptions, and be mindful of misinformation and disinformation. Share your hopes and fears in person, listen to others, and be honest and respectful. * * * — In 1990, after spending twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela was informed by President F. W. De Klerk that he would be freed in less than twenty-four hours. The following day Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison and into history. He had to pass through a courtyard, beyond which he would be a free man. As he later recounted, he knew that if he did not forgive his captors before he reached the outer wall, he never would.

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Movements of civil disobedience from the early twentieth-century suffragettes to Gandhi’s drive for Indian independence to Martin Luther King, Jr., and the 1960s civil rights movement to the 2003 Rose Revolution in Georgia—to name just a few—are all inspirational insofar as they mobilized vast numbers of people to champion their causes. An open, inclusive narrative and a sense of working collectively to change history for the better took them further than they ever imagined possible. As Nelson Mandela said, “It always seems impossible until it is done.” Now is the time for us to participate—in our schools, businesses, communities, towns, and countries—to ensure that the battle to survive the climate crisis becomes the biggest political movement in history. It is not about changing governments or political leaders.

The End of Secrecy: The Rise and Fall of WikiLeaks
by The "Guardian" , David Leigh and Luke Harding
Published 1 Feb 2011

Rather, Davies predicted, the US would launch a dirty information war, and accuse him of helping terrorists and endangering innocent lives. WikiLeaks’ response had to be that the world was entitled to know the truth about the murky US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “We are going to put you on the moral high ground – so high that you’ll need an oxygen mask. You’ll be up there with Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa,” Davies told Assange. “They won’t be able to arrest you. Nor can they shut down your website.” Assange was receptive. This wasn’t the first time WikiLeaks had worked with traditional news media, and Assange had decided it might be a good idea on this occasion to do so again.

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This forbidding ensemble of grey Victorian buildings might have come from the pages of Charles Dickens. It proved to be an excellent setting for another reel in what would surely become Assange’s biopic. His life story already had the trajectory of a thriller. But now it had an unexpected change of pace, with a sequence to come on its protagonist’s suffering and martyrdom. Nelson Mandela, Oscar Wilde, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Assange’s hero), all had spent time in prison. They had used their confinement to meditate and reflect on the transitory nature of human existence and – in Solzhenitsyn’s case – on the brutalities of Soviet power. Now it was Assange’s turn to be incarcerated, as some saw it, in a dank British gulag.

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At 5.48pm Assange emerged on to the steps of the high court into the flash-flare of TV cameras and photographers – clutching his bail papers, his right arm raised in triumph. There were whoops and cheers from his supporters. He had been in prison a mere nine days. But the atmosphere was as if he was had made the long walk to freedom, just like Nelson Mandela. Assange addressed the crowd: It’s great to smell [the] fresh air of London again … First, some thank-yous. To all the people around the world who had faith in me, who have supported my team while I have been away. To my lawyers, who have put up a brave and ultimately successful fight, to our sureties and people who have provided money in the face of great difficulty and aversion.

WEconomy: You Can Find Meaning, Make a Living, and Change the World
by Craig Kielburger , Holly Branson , Marc Kielburger , Sir Richard Branson and Sheryl Sandberg
Published 7 Mar 2018

It drew in 48 million viewers per week.1 O, The Oprah Magazine, has the highest women's magazine circulation in North America with 2.4 million copies sold per year.2 Oprah invested $40 million to create the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls. The school in South Africa for disadvantaged girls was lauded by Nelson Mandela. Oprah's Book Club leads to 55 million books sold after promotion on the show. Fortune magazine named her the world's most charitable celebrity. People want to be Oprah because she fosters her passions while giving back—and she gets paid to do so. The Oprah Winfrey Show was devoted to health and fitness, relationships, and literacy because Oprah commiserates with our family issues and wants to be part of our book club.

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Thomas went above and beyond to exemplify those values to his team during a ME to WE trip to northern India, the farthest leg on the company's long journey with us to boost team values and satisfaction. Watch highlights from a ME to WE trip to India to see what the group experienced: Click for video KPMG, one of the “Big Four” professional services networks in the world, performs scrupulous audits for major corporations, organizations, and governments (the firm certified the election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa in 1994).1 It measures complex data and scrutinizes the tiniest of details in financial deals. So, several years ago when they asked us to a meeting to discuss a partnership, we arrived equipped with piles of metrics and third-party studies to show the impact of our domestic and international programming.

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Capturing and living your plan: We spent a whole lot of time as a family coming up with experiences and ways of working together, identifying a wise circle of advisors, rituals, and other ideas that will support us every day in living our plan—and having the impact we dream about in this world. The Elders: The Elders are an independent group of global leaders working together for peace and human rights. The Elders represent an independent voice, not bound by the interests of humanity, and the universal human rights we all share. Meet the Elders: Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) Founder, Martti Ahtisaari, Kofi Annan (Chair), Ban Ki-moon, Ela Bhatt (Elder Emeritus), Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Fernando H Cardosa (Elder Emeritus), Jimmy Carter (Elder Emeritus), Hina Jilani, Ricardo Lagos, Graca Machel, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu, and Ernesto Zedillo.

Owning the Sun
by Alexander Zaitchik
Published 7 Jan 2022

In South Africa, the Mandela government passed a Medicines Act in December 1997 that gave the health ministry powers to produce, purchase, and import low-cost drugs. The industry backlash came fast. In February 1998, more than three dozen multinational drug companies and the South African Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association filed a suit against Nelson Mandela and the government of South Africa, alleging violations of the country’s constitution and its looming obligations under TRIPS.44 The same Western leaders who continued to praise Mandela in public began chastising him in private meetings. In the summer of 1998, Al Gore put U.S. drug patents high on the agenda of that year’s U.S.

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Trade Representative, meanwhile, put the country on notice for retaliatory measures under Section 301. In his 2012 documentary about the generic AIDS drugs fight, Fire in the Blood, Dylan Mohan Gray observes that it took the U.S. government forty years to threaten apartheid South Africa with sanctions, but less than four to do so against the government of Nelson Mandela. Though South Africa was not a major market for multinational drug companies—it barely registered—in the drug industry’s version of Cold War “domino theory,” the appearance of cheap drugs anywhere was a threat to monopoly-priced drugs everywhere. Allowing the poorest nations to “free ride” on U.S. science (as the biggest companies themselves did) and build parallel drug economies would eventually cause problems closer to home, where the industry spent billions keeping the lid on public discontent over drug prices.

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The talks ended in stalemate with no schedule to resume. In March 2001, the South African government called the drug companies’ bluff by allowing the case to go to court. An attempt to scare and intimidate South African officials had ended with the companies under the harsh lights of a growing international scandal, suing Nelson Mandela to maintain rules that were killing thousands of people every day. The lawsuit wasn’t the only driver of global attention to the issue. Weeks before the industry’s lawyers delivered their opening argument to the Pretoria High Court, The New York Times published a bombshell by Donald McNeil Jr. titled “Indian Company Offers to Supply AIDS Drugs at Low Cost in Africa.”

Rethinking Islamism: The Ideology of the New Terror
by Meghnad Desai
Published 25 Apr 2008

฀The฀Black฀Hands฀group฀to฀which฀Gavrilo฀Princip฀belonged฀ was฀ such฀ an฀ outfit,฀ committed฀ to฀ Slav฀ independence฀ from฀ the฀ Habsburgs.฀Terrorism฀was฀their฀weapon,฀but฀as฀it฀was฀deployed฀in฀ a฀nationalist฀cause฀after฀independence฀the฀terrorists฀are฀celebrated฀ as฀martyrs.฀The฀terrorist/martyr฀if฀he฀dies฀or฀the฀terrorist/leader฀ if฀ he฀ survives฀ until฀ independence฀ is฀ equally฀ a฀ familiar฀ figure฀ in฀ modern฀history.฀Nelson฀Mandela฀is฀the฀most฀famous฀example฀of฀this฀ type,฀who฀was฀denounced฀as฀a฀terrorist฀by฀the฀apartheid฀regime,฀ and฀indeed฀by฀British฀prime฀minister฀Margaret฀Thatcher,฀but฀lived฀ on฀to฀become฀a฀statesman฀of฀world฀stature. The฀ empires฀ of฀ Europe฀ disappeared฀ in฀ two฀ waves.฀ First,฀ after฀ the฀end฀of฀the฀First฀World฀War,฀the฀land-based฀empires฀of฀Austria– Hungary฀ and฀ the฀ Ottomans฀ broke฀ up,฀ though฀ (as฀ we฀ saw฀ above)฀ their฀ after-effects฀ are฀ still฀ with฀ us.฀ The฀ Romanov฀ Empire฀ of฀ the฀ tsars฀was฀taken฀over฀by฀the฀Bolsheviks,฀and฀indeed฀expanded฀after฀ ฀ ฀  the฀Second฀World฀War฀through฀their฀formal฀and฀informal฀control฀ over฀eastern฀Europe.

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.฀ Even฀ though฀ it฀ has฀ now฀ lasted฀ for฀ more฀ than฀ a฀ dozen฀ years฀(since฀the฀first฀attempt,฀in฀February฀,฀to฀bomb฀the฀World฀ Trade฀ Center฀ in฀ New฀ York),฀ many฀ people฀ still฀ deny฀ its฀ novelty.฀ They฀argue฀that฀one฀man’s฀terrorist฀is฀another’s฀liberation฀fighter.฀ However,฀ liberation฀ struggles฀ are฀ for฀ a฀ nationalist฀ cause,฀ often฀ against฀an฀imperial฀power,฀and฀the฀aim฀has฀been฀confined฀to฀winning฀independence฀for฀the฀nation.฀Nevertheless,฀we฀were฀told฀that฀ Nelson฀Mandela฀was฀a฀terrorist฀by฀no฀less฀a฀person฀than฀Margaret฀ Thatcher.฀Bin฀Laden,฀though,฀is฀not฀Mandela.฀Mandela’s฀struggle฀ was฀ anti-racist฀ and฀ was฀ for฀ equality฀ for฀ his฀ people฀ in฀ their฀ own฀ home฀against฀their฀white฀fellow฀countrymen.฀ People฀point฀out,฀quite฀rightly,฀that฀in฀the฀war฀on฀terror฀America฀has฀committed฀gross฀violations฀of฀human฀rights.

McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld
by Misha Glenny
Published 7 Apr 2008

May 1, 1994, was a joyous day for most South Africans. The country’s first free elections three days earlier had given the African National Congress a thumping majority, and Nelson Mandela, the most admired politician in the world, had just become president-elect of his country. “I received my passport on April 18, my birthday,” Lucy recalled, “and a week later I went to vote. I told myself I was a lucky person and that this vote was the chance of a lifetime.” “I wanted to see pictures of Nelson Mandela celebrating our victory, but then the customs man came back—with big, big shiny dogs! Big black shiny dogs.” Lucy’s voice deepens and her hand gestures expand as she draws an imaginary pair of shiny sniffer dogs.

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Its dissolution followed no obvious pattern, occurring instead as a series of seemingly disparate events: the spectacular rise of the Japanese car industry; Communist Hungary’s clandestine approach to the International Monetary Fund to explore a possible application for membership; the stagnation of India’s economy; President F. W. de Clerk’s first discreet contacts with the imprisoned Nelson Mandela; the advent of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in China; Margaret Thatcher’s decisive confrontation with Britain’s trades union movement. Individually, these and other events seemed to reflect the everyday ups and downs of politics; at most they were adjustments to the world order. In fact, powerful currents below the surface had provoked a number of economic crises and opportunities, especially outside the great citadels of power in Western Europe and the United States, that were to have profound consequences for the emergence of what we now call globalization.

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This created great confusion—you can’t imagine…you had Swedes and Dutch coming over here and telling them about how policemen had to respect human rights! South African cops! Ha, ha, ha!” Gastrow bursts out laughing at the thought of a shock troop of Scandinavians in woolly sweaters teaching battle-scarred Boer hard nuts how to relate to someone else’s pain. In the first half of the 1990s, Nelson Mandela and the ANC’s liberal allies knew that the apartheid police represented a real threat to a peaceful transition. As Gastrow argues, some disgruntled whites were encouraging the incipient civil war among Zulus between ANC supporters and those of the more conservative Inkhata Freedom Party. They were doing so as if, were this conflict among the Zulus to escalate, it could fatally undermine the move to black majority rule.

The Case for Israel
by Alan Dershowitz
Published 31 Jul 2003

Second, any Arab leader who has even the slightest possibility of defeating Israel will be praised and rewarded for trying, and condemned, perhaps even overthrown, for not trying. This is why it is so important for the preservation of peace that Israel remains qualitatively stronger militarily than all the combined Arab armies that surround it. If that military superiority were ever to be lost, it is virtually certain that Israel would again be attacked. That is why Nelson Mandela was wrong in suggesting any analogy between Israel’s defensive nuclear program and Iraq’s efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction for aggressive use. c15.qxd 6/25/03 8:24 AM Page 103 THE CASE FOR ISRAEL 103 This is what Mandela said: “But what we know is that Israel has weapons of mass destruction.

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It has one of the most diverse populations in the world, including black Africans from Ethiopia; brown Africans and Asians from North Africa, Yemen, Egypt, Iraq, and Morocco; Jews from Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus; and families from Romania, Latin America, and the former Yugoslavia. Nelson Mandela was simply wrong when he described Israel as a “white” nation as contrasted with Iraq, which he called a “black” nation. cconcl.qxd 6/25/03 228 8:39 AM Page 228 THE CASE FOR ISRAEL As far as Israel being a tool of the United States, that is simply false. It is an ally. Both countries are democracies fighting against terrorism.

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Laqueur and Rubin, p. 143. 2. “The Spirit of October,” Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt), October 8–14, 1998. 3. Morris, p. 390. 4. Ibid., p. 413. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Quoted in Morris, p. 406. Morris, p. 419. Ibid., p. 223. Quoted in Laqueur and Rubin, p. 148. Ibid., p. 143. Morris, p. 387. Tom Masland, “Nelson Mandela: The U.S.A. Is a Threat to World Peace,” Newsweek, September 10, 2002. 12. Morris, p. 632. CHAPTER 16 Has Israel Made Serious Efforts at Peace? 1. “Israel Sharpens Its Axe,” CounterPunch, July 13, 2001, www.counterpunch.org /saidaxe.html, (last visited April 5, 2003). 2. Lecture, Harvard University, November 25, 2002. 3.

Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business
by John Mackey , Rajendra Sisodia and Bill George
Published 7 Jan 2014

Everyone can and should aspire to integrity in life—to unify his or her values and virtues and express them within the context of the larger community, including where a person works. People who fail to achieve integrity can be accurately described using terms such as hypocrites, opportunists, yes-men (or yes-women), and ethical cowards.11 Famous historical leaders with high integrity include Socrates, Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Margaret Thatcher, and Liu Xiaobo. These exceptional leaders greatly inspire us to seek to attain higher levels of integrity, especially in their expression of moral courage. Capacity for Love and Care Conscious leaders have a great capacity for love and care. They recognize how important it is to drive fear out of their organizations.

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Those qualities and virtues are usually already within us, but are not yet fully developed. It is very healthy to look up to admirable people. They could be friends, parents, siblings, or teachers. They could be people from history, such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., or Gandhi. We can admire and try to emulate living people whom we’ve never met, such as Nelson Mandela or Muhammad Yunus. If we follow a particular religious faith, our inspiration might come from Moses, Jesus, St. Francis, Mohammed, Patanjali, Krishna, or Buddha. We can even look to fictional characters who vividly express admirable virtues, such as Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird or Albus Dumbledore in J.

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Our institutions magnify or depress our capacity to care.”7 Most corporate cultures don’t value love and caring enough, because their leaders have not fully integrated these virtues into their own lives. We need role models who are fully integrated human beings, loving as well as strong, and who show that there need not be any contradiction between the two. Leaders like Abraham Lincoln, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa are considered strong as well as truly loving and compassionate. Few prominent business leaders can be described in the same way (Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines comes to mind). Business leaders should aspire to enter into the pantheon of strong and effective leaders who are also caring, loving, and compassionate.

Nobody's Fool: Why We Get Taken in and What We Can Do About It
by Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris
Published 10 Jul 2023

Indeed, such memory tricks don’t require a totalitarian regime or even a clever artist—we can play them on ourselves. THE “MANDELA EFFECT” The cliché says that those who do not remember history are condemned to repeat it, but what happens when different people remember entirely different histories? In 2009, a woman named Fiona Broome realized she had a memory of Nelson Mandela dying sometime in the 1980s in a South African prison, where he was serving a life sentence for conspiring to overthrow the country’s White government. In reality, he was released from prison in 1990, negotiated the end of apartheid, served as president of his country from 1994 to 1999, and died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five.

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Likewise, some people recall a movie about a genie, called Shazam, starring the comedian Sinbad. Sinbad appeared in a genie-like outfit in another movie in the 1990s, basketball star Shaquille O’Neal starred as a genie in a movie named Kazaam around the same time, and an unrelated television show named Shazam ran in the 1970s. Nelson Mandela quite plausibly could have died in prison—his compatriot Stephen Biko died in police custody in 1977, an event memorialized in a popular song by Peter Gabriel—and there were riots in South Africa and demonstrations worldwide against apartheid throughout the 1980s. If you weren’t paying much attention to South Africa in the 1990s, you could easily combine these facts into a belief that the most famous Black South African leader must have died in prison, which you learned about from television news, the most common way people consumed news in the 1980s.

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It’s not surprising that people’s memories can morph and that people are overconfident in them—these facts have been known for decades. What is surprising is that people can become so deeply committed to the infallibility of their personal recollections that they will adopt outlandish belief systems—forked timelines, alternate realities, and worldwide conspiracies to alter every news story about Nelson Mandela and delete every Jiffy peanut-butter reference from the Internet—to justify their memories. Like mistaken memories of Lustfaust, the stakes here may appear low—it doesn’t really matter whether Sinbad was in a genie movie or which vowel was in the title of a children’s book. But it matters a lot that people reject well-supported scientific explanations of reality in favor of pseudoscience and conspiracy thinking.

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence
by Robert Bryce
Published 16 Mar 2011

Available: http:// search.nobelprize.org/search/nobel/?q=sadat&i=en&x=0&y=0. 39. Kati Marton’s A Death in Jerusalem provides a clear-eyed account of Bernadotte’s murder as well as a history of the Stern Gang and Irgun, both of which used terror in order to secure a Zionist state in Palestine. 40. Ibid., 1. 41. Nelson Mandela, from Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. London; Little, Brown Book Grooup, 1995: 166. 42. For more, see Robb’s blog, Global Guerillas. For his discussion on financing terrorism, see: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/ 04/global_guerrill.html. 43. Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers, and John Sloboda, “Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century,” Oxford Research Group, briefing paper, June 2006, 4. 44.

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Shamir ordered the murder of a Swedish diplomat, Count Folke Bernadotte, even though Bernadotte had gone to Jerusalem as a United Nations– appointed peacemaker.39 On September 17, 1948, Bernadotte was gunned down by Shamir’s lieutenants as he was being driven through Jerusalem.40 Similar facts surround the case of another Nobel laureate, the former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela. In the early 1960s, Mandela led the armed faction of the African National Congress, through which he coordinated a sabotage campaign against military targets and government installations in South Africa. During his nearly three decades in captivity, Mandela refused to renounce violence— even when offered freedom if he did so.

Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism
by Harm J. De Blij
Published 15 Nov 2007

Kenya, where Daniel arap Moi had succeeded Jomo Kenyatta, headed this depressing roster. In Southern Africa, the long-imprisoned Nelson Mandela made possible that almost unimaginable, peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy, setting one glorious and final example of African leadership and statecraft in the liberation era. But in South Africa's neighbor, Zimbabwe, the revolutionary hero Robert Mugabe turned into another of Africa's destructive tyrants—in the process ruining one of the continent's most promising economies. When Nelson Mandela was democratically succeeded in South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, the new South African president found it difficult to express toward Zimbabwe the moral standards he inherited from the founder.

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Harm de Blij WHY GEOGRAPHY MATTERS WHY GEOGRAPHY MATTERS Ten years ago it seemed that the world could not possibly change any faster than it had over the previous decade. The Soviet Union had disintegrated into 15 newly independent countries, China's Pacific Rim was transforming the economic geography of East Asia, South Africa was embarked on a new course under the guidance of Nelson Mandela (a new course that relied on the complete reconstruction of its administrative map), NAFTA linked Canada, the United States, and Mexico in an economic union that would change the commercial map of North America, the European Community was renamed the European Union and added three members to its roster to create a 15-nation entity, and Yugoslavia was collapsing amid uncontrolled carnage.

The Looting Machine: Warlords, Oligarchs, Corporations, Smugglers, and the Theft of Africa's Wealth
by Tom Burgis
Published 24 Mar 2015

His relationship with De Beers soon soured, and he took a job at Rio Tinto, working on a copper mine close to the Kruger National Park, where the racial division was even more apparent. ‘I was working on the mine, in production, and I was really exposed to how things are,’ Moloi remembers. By 1990 mass protests and international sanctions had brought the apartheid regime to the verge of collapse. F. W. de Klerk released Nelson Mandela and lifted the ban on the African National Congress. The party set up working groups to prepare itself for government, and Moloi joined the one on science and technology. By 1993 the leading lights of the ANC’s economics team had identified the usefulness of a man who knew the mining business from the inside.

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He sought relentlessly to expand northward the interwoven projects of British colonial rule and his own corporate interests by way of treaties, force of arms and duplicity. His most hegemonic venture, the British South Africa Company, had a royal charter affording it powers akin to those of a government. The region’s black inhabitants, from the Xhosa of the eastern Cape – Nelson Mandela’s people – to Robert Mugabe’s Shona ancestors in Rhodesia, were gradually subjugated and marginalized. Rhodes died in 1902, humbled by his support of the disastrous Jameson Raid into Boer territory. W. T. Stead, the great crusading newspaperman of Victorian Britain, called Cecil Rhodes ‘the first of the new Dynasty of Money Kings which has evolved in these later days as the real rulers of the modern world’.33 That description echoes down the century that followed and past the turn of the millennium.

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In the first months of 2014 alone it shuttled between Hong Kong, Singapore, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Maldives, Angola, Zimbabwe, Indonesia (where China Sonangol has a slice of a natural gas field) and Beijing.48 Like Rhodes before him, Pa’s African horizons are forever widening. In December 2013 Ernest Bai Koroma, the president of Sierra Leone, a nation scarred by its diamond-funded war but where peace has started to take hold, stopped off in Angola on his way home from Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in South Africa. Over dinner and red wine at Luanda One, the Queensway Group’s golden skyscraper, Koroma held what a statement from his office described as ‘fruitful discussions with Chinese Business Tycoon and Vice Chairman of China International Fund Limited, Mr Sam, on key infrastructural developments to be implemented in Sierra Leone’.49 A photograph shows Koroma engrossed in conversation with Pa, who is dressed in his usual dark suit and spectacles, a mobile phone on the table in front of him, gesturing as through ticking off items on a checklist.

Bomb Scare
by Joseph Cirincione
Published 24 Dec 2011

Ireland was perhaps the first to demonstrate the important role smaller nations can play in great power politics by introducing the first resolution at the United Nations in 1958 calling for a treaty on the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. South Africa is a more recent example. In 1993, on the eve of the transition to majority rule, the apartheid government disclosed its secret nuclear program and announced that all its weapons had been dismantled. Nelson Mandela, the first president of the new majority government, could have reversed this decision. But he decided that South African security was better served in a continent where there were no nuclear weapons than in one where there was a nuclear arms competition. South African representatives made their new government’s first major foray into international affairs at the 1995 Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference.

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Within a few years, they were convinced to give them up and join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) as non–nuclear weapon states. • The apartheid government in South Africa, on the eve of transition to majority rule in 1993, announced that it had destroyed its six secret nuclear weapons. Nelson Mandela could have reversed that decision, but he concluded that South Africa’s security would be better served in a region where no state had nuclear weapons than in one with a nuclear arms race. • Similarly, civilian governments in Brazil and Argentina in the 1980s stopped the nuclear weapon research that military juntas had started.

Billions & Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium
by Carl Sagan
Published 11 May 1998

Shattering a four-year-long worldwide voluntary moratorium, China resumes nuclear weapons testing; should we? How much should we give to charity? Serbian soldiers systematically rape Bosnian women; should Bosnian soldiers systematically rape Serbian women? After centuries of oppression, the Nationalist Party leader F. W de Klerk makes overtures to the African National Congress; should Nelson Mandela and the ANC have reciprocated? A coworker makes you look bad in front of the boss; should you try to get even? Should we cheat on our income tax returns? If we can get away with it? If an oil company supports a symphony orchestra or sponsors a refined TV drama, ought we to ignore its pollution of the environment?

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The Rules of the Game • 221 Nonviolent civil disobedience has worked notable political1 change in this century—in prying India loose from British rule and stimulating the end of classic colonialism worldwide, and in providing some civil rights for African-Americans—although the threat of violence by others, however disavowed by Gandhi and King, may have also helped. The African National Congress (ANC) grew up in the Gandhian tradition. But by the 1950s it was clear that nonviolent noncooperation was making no progress whatever with the ruling white Nationalist Party. So in 1961 Nelson Mandela and his colleagues formed the military wing of the ANC, the Umkhonto we Sizive, the Spear of the Nation, on the quite un-Gandhian grounds that the only thing whites understand is force. Even Gandhi had trouble reconciling the rule of nonviolence with the necessities of defense against those with less lofty rules of conduct: "I have not the qualifications for teaching my philosophy of life.

Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places
by Paul Collier
Published 9 Feb 2010

A few political leaders of low-income societies have succeeded in countering the problems posed by ethnic diversity by superimposing a constructed national identity. Two outstanding instances were Sukarno, who was president of Indonesia from 1945 until 1967, and Julius Nyerere, who was president of Tanzania from 1964 until 1985. More recently Nelson Mandela set South Africa on the same path. Both Sukarno and Nyerere got their economic policies seriously wrong, falling victim to the fashionable nostrums of their times, but on the key issue of building the nation they were political giants. Sukarno had the more difficult task, a vast territory of more than six thousand inhabited islands.

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Combined, these approaches would enhance the supply of the public goods, providing the security and the checks and balances that their citizens need. From time to time people capable of such leadership gain political power, but not very often. It is not by chance that the visionary leaders Julius Nyerere, Sukarno, and Nelson Mandela were all founding presidents. Once political power can readily be won by the self-serving, the self-serving will step forward to try their luck and the honorable will step back. Bad currency drives out good. In this book I have spared you the fancy terminology of economics, but since you have reached the end you On Changing Reality 231 can take delight in one technical term: in economic language the quality of political leadership is endogenous.

The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
by Guy Spier
Published 8 Sep 2014

Or, A Good Hard Look at Wall Street by Fred Schwed Your Money and Your Brain: How the New Science of Neuroeconomics Can Help Make You Rich by Jason Zweig Literature 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez Hamlet by William Shakespeare Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values by Robert Pirsig Miscellaneous Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with the Truth by Mahatma Gandhi City Police by Jonathan Rubinstein Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson Reagan: A Life in Letters by Ronald Reagan The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The New British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers Vor 1914: Erinnerungen an Frankfurt geschrieben in Israel by Selmar Spier Walden: or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau Why America Is Not a New Rome by Vaclav Smil Philosophy and Theology A Theory of Justice by John Rawls Anarchy, the State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick Destination Torah: Reflections on the Weekly Torah Readings by Isaac Sassoon Halakhic Man by Joseph Soloveitchik Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Pirke Avot: A Modern Commentary on Jewish Ethics by Leonard Kravits and Kerry Olitzky Plato, not Prozac!

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
by Thor Hanson
Published 1 Jul 2018

After a day or two, antsiness sets in, and it’s not unusual to spot groups of people piling into rental cars and skipping out to the nearest national park. Sometimes, however, the best things to see lie right outside the windows of the conference room. When South Africa hosted the gathering a few years back, it took place at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, on the outskirts of Port Elizabeth. Aside from the main cluster of buildings, most of the school’s 2,100-acre (830-hectare) campus remains in undisturbed fynbos, a dry, shrubby habitat named after the Afrikaans phrase for “fine bush.” On the second afternoon, after I’d given my paper and answered a few questions, I was gazing out the window as the next session got underway.

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The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider
by Michiko Kakutani
Published 20 Feb 2024

” * * * — Resilience and adaptability also make decentralization appealing to activist groups. In some cases, there are more philosophical reasons as well: a determination to repudiate the hierarchical structure of traditional institutions, which many protesters today regard as elitist, paternalistic, clumsily bureaucratic. The lack of prominent leaders—a Nelson Mandela, a Martin Luther King Jr., or a Cesar Chavez—makes for more egalitarian movements, say proponents, and allows for more input from more organizers on the ground. This “leaderless” quality shared by so many of the twenty-first century’s protest movements—including the Arab Spring uprisings, the Yellow Vests in France, the worldwide climate protests, and the Hong Kong pro-democracy demonstrations—also reflects how these groups were organized online through social media and the use of other digital tools.

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Heaney wrote these lines in 1990 and said he didn’t think he “would have had the gall” to write such consoling lines “had it not been for the extraordinary events” that had just happened in the world: namely, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the election of the dissident playwright Václav Havel as president of Czechoslovakia, the fall of the Romanian dictator Ceaușescu, and the release of Nelson Mandela after twenty-seven years in prison. If such momentous changes were possible, Heaney reasoned, then why not an end to the thirty years of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland? And eight years later, in 1998, the British government, the Irish government, and Northern Ireland political parties signed the Good Friday Agreement, designed to bring an end to thirty years of violent conflict there.

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom
by Katherine Eban
Published 13 May 2019

The three drugs in question—stavudine, lamivudine, and nevirapine—were made by three different multinational drug companies. The combined price for a single patient reached $12,000 a year. Not only was the treatment regimen onerous, but few could afford it. Hamied immediately set out to make the drugs in the cocktail. In 1997, under the leadership of Nelson Mandela, South Africa altered its law to make it easier to sidestep pharmaceutical patents and import low-cost medicine. No country needed the AIDS cocktail more badly than South Africa, which had emerged as an epicenter of the epidemic. But South Africa, along with over 130 nations, was bound by an international trade agreement called TRIPS (Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), which required that all members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) ensure basic protection for intellectual property.

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Even among the industry’s lowest moments—the illegal marketing of drugs for off-label uses; the payoffs to doctors who acted as promotional mouthpieces; the concealment of negative safety data for high-profile drugs—its stance in South Africa seemed uniquely horrible. As the Wall Street Journal summed it up: “Can the pharmaceuticals industry inflict any more damage upon its ailing public image? Well, how about suing Nelson Mandela?” It was an outrage that William Haddad would never forget. “Big Pharma, those cock-sucking bastards,” he yelled to a journalist years later. “Thirty-four million people had AIDS and every single one of them would die without the medicine. Would die and were dying. And they charged $15,000 dollars a year, and only four thousand people [in Africa] could afford the medicine.”

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biggest industry was making wooden coffins: Neil Darbyshire, “Land Where Only Coffin Makers Thrive,” Telegraph, June 24, 2002. 90 million Africans by 2025: Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), AIDS in Africa: Three Scenarios to 2025, January 2005, http://www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/media_asset/jc1058-aidsinafrica_en_1.pdf (accessed December 8, 2018). In 1991, Dr. Rama Rao: Peter Church, Added Value: 30 of India’s Top Business Leaders Share Their Inspirational Life Stories (New Delhi: Roli Books Pvt., 2010), 92. In 1997, under the leadership of Nelson Mandela: Helene Cooper, Rachel Zimmerman, and Laurie McGinley, “AIDS Epidemic Puts Drug Firms in a Vise: Treatment vs. Profits,” Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2001, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB983487988418159849 (accessed May 25, 2018); see also Deshpande, Sucher, and Winig, “Cipla 2011,” 5. On September 28, 2000, he took to the podium: Y.

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Peter Petre
Published 30 Sep 2012

Courtesy of Universal Licensing, LLC I loved working with Danny Hernandez, on my left, the ex-Marine who masterminded the Hollenbeck Youth Center in East LA. It provides kids in a poor, gang-infested neighborhood with a place to go and gives problem kids a second chance. Schwarzenegger Archive I get goose bumps when Nelson Mandela talks about inclusion, tolerance, and forgiveness. In 2001 we met at Robben Island, where he spent twenty-seven years in prison, to light the Flame of Hope for the Special Olympics African Hope Games. Christian Jauschowetz My first political campaign was crusading in 2002 to pass a ballot initiative to set up after-school programs at every elementary and middle school in California.

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He opened the way for me to do bodybuilding exhibitions in the townships and said, “Every time you do something for whites, I’d like to see you do something for blacks.” He’d also taken the lead in getting South Africa to bid for the Mr. Olympia competition, and I’d been part of the delegation from the International Federation of Body Building that worked with him. Now apartheid was long gone, and Nelson Mandela was the nation’s distinguished former president. Since leaving office, Mandela had committed himself to raising the profile of the Special Olympics across the entire continent, where millions of people with intellectual disabilities were stigmatized, ignored, or worse. Sarge and Eunice had planned to come with us, but Eunice, who’d just turned eighty, broke her leg in a car crash a day before we left.

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The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and I had been working on an ambitious response to global warming. Two years earlier, in 2007, he’d been so impressed by California’s climate change initiative that he’d invited me to speak at the opening session of the United Nations. When I stepped to the podium that fall, I was almost overwhelmed to realize that I was standing where John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, and Mikhail Gorbachev had all addressed the UN before me. The occasion gave California a world stage—and an opportunity to contribute to a crucial international conversation. Now, two years later, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen was meant to be the most important meeting on global warming since the completion of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997.

Citation Needed: The Best of Wikipedia's Worst Writing
by Conor Lastowka and Josh Fruhlinger
Published 14 Oct 2011

Never overestimate the intelligence of someone who is reading the Wikipedia article for Hamburger Helper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_Helper Serial comma The Times once published an unintentionally humorous description of a Peter Ustinov documentary, noting that “highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector”. This is ambiguous as it stands, and would still be ambiguous if a serial comma were added, as Mandela could then be mistaken for a demigod. So yes, we admit it is completely worthless as an example and has no business being on the Serial Comma page.

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency
by Joshua Green
Published 17 Jul 2017

They will lie, lie, lie.” Democrats were giddy, believing that they were finally witnessing the self-destruction of a candidate who seemed impervious to so much. Paul Begala, an adviser to the Clinton-aligned Super PAC Priorities USA, watched Trump’s rally and pronounced him finished. “To quote the late, great Nelson Mandela, it’s like drinking poison and thinking it’s going to hurt your enemy,” Begala said. “He’s a billionaire tycoon in a total meltdown, and he’s going to try to take as many people down with him. It’s not a political strategy, but it will be an unlovely twenty-six days until we dispatch him to the ash heap of history

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postshare=811476078962605&tid=ss_tw. NBC News/SurveyMonkey: Christine Wang, “Positive Opinions of Trump Grow After Second Debate, NBC/Surveymonkey Poll Says,” CNBC.com, October 12, 2016, www.cnbc.com/2016/10/11/positive-opinions-of-trump-grow-after-second-debate-nbcsuveymonkey-poll-says.html. “To quote the late, great Nelson Mandela”: Philip Rucker and Sean Sullivan, “Trump Says Groping Allegations Are Part of a Global Conspiracy to Help Clinton,” Washington Post, October 13, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-groping-allegations-are-part-of-a-global-conspiracy-to-help-clinton/2016/10/13/e377d7e4-915a-11e6-a6a3-d50061aa9fae_story.html.

The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
by Olivia Fox Cabane
Published 1 Mar 2012

Researchers who started experimenting with these kinds of visualizations with highly self-critical people reported “significant reductions in depression, anxiety, self-criticism, shame, and inferiority” while noting a “significant increase in feelings of warmth and reassurance for the self.”11 If the Metta visualization didn’t work for you, try putting up, throughout your home or office, photographs of people for whom you feel affection. These pictures could be of friends or family members, or even public figures who you feel could have affection for you, such as the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, or whichever figures resonate with your personal beliefs or bring warmth to your heart (pets and stuffed animals included). To nurture my internal warmth I set up a “Metta circle” of photographs in the area where I practice every morning. I also carry a small book of favorite wisdoms with me when I want to ensure that I’ll be in the right charismatic mental state.

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What standard would you like them to live up to or exceed? Express this expectation as if you have full confidence that they can live up to it. Better yet, act like you assume they already are meeting these standards. Third, articulate a vision. A charismatic vision is what will give your charisma staying power when the crisis is over. Think of Nelson Mandela, whose vision of unity and modernism for South Africa was so powerful that even after the crisis of apartheid had passed and his service as president was over, he continued to be seen as a transnational leader for all of southern Africa and an influential voice in international politics. On the other hand, President George H.

How to Be Champion: My Autobiography
by Sarah Millican
Published 16 Apr 2018

We paid, we queued and, as happens with us, if something’s shit we make it fun. Not that Madame Tussauds is shit. As far as rooms full of lifelike waxworks of famous people go, it’s the best there is. That’s just not our cup of tea. As we walked through briskly, an old Indian man came up to us and asked why there were two Nelson Mandelas. He was a great man but it seemed odd. Then we pointed out to him that the Nelson Mandela standing between Brad Pitt and John Travolta was actually Morgan Freeman. Gary wanted to have his photo taken with Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Albert Einstein, so we nailed those two, but in the world-leader room he decided he wanted a quick picture with Hitler.

Outnumbered: From Facebook and Google to Fake News and Filter-Bubbles – the Algorithms That Control Our Lives
by David Sumpter
Published 18 Jun 2018

He explained Pikachu’s tail, the question of whether the Monopoly guy had a monocle or not, what Darth Vader really said to Luke Skywalker and other examples of false memories. This was all fine. What surprised me was the original story about Mandela. According to the YouTuber, lots of people believe that Nelson Mandela died in jail in the 1980s. He and many others like him, including my own children, it seemed, considered Nelson Mandela dying in jail to be the original example of false memories. But it isn’t. There is no convincing evidence that a large number of people believed that Mandela died in jail. A little research of my own showed that the entire idea could be attributed to one single blog post, written by ‘paranormal consultant’ Fiona Broome in 2010.

Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide
by Joshua S. Goldstein
Published 15 Sep 2011

By the way, France got its money’s worth from this maneuver, as Miyet was succeeded by another Frenchman in 2000 and yet another in 2008. Annan became a famous and popular figure, even in the United States, where the UN had many opponents and few champions. Journalist James Traub describes him as “perhaps the most popular figure ever to occupy the office.” Annan and Nelson Mandela, two gray-haired African men, were described as the “only two people with great moral stature in the world today.” Annan and his tall Swedish wife, Nane, were a glamorous presence in New York social circles. To top it off, Annan won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2001. Before leaving to accept his prize in Norway, Annan even appeared on Sesame Street to resolve a conflict among Muppets.

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Similarly, in 1998 Angola and Zimbabwe sent troops to the Congo under the banner of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and saved the Kabila government there. In its efforts in the Congo, Zimbabwe “consistently sought to sideline South Africa,” a fellow member of SADC, because the South African president, Nelson Mandela, opposed military action in the Congo. AFRICAN ISSUES African regional organizations have particular weaknesses in peacekeeping. In Africa, six different regional organizations have undertaken peacekeeping since 1979. The Organization of African Unity, predecessor of the AU, ran eleven operations, mostly small-scale.

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UNICEF’s influential report The State of the World’s Children 1996 included a version in its section on “Children in War,” citing the Ahlström book. Also in 1996 the UN released a major report, “The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children,” authored by a high-profile figure of great moral stature, Graça Machel. (She was former education minister and first lady of Mozambique, and the future spouse of Nelson Mandela.) Machel had been commissioned by the UN secretary-general to lead the two-year process culminating in the report, which was requested by the UN General Assembly in 1993 and presented to the General Assembly in 1996. In the report, Machel writes, “In recent decades, the proportion of war victims who are civilians has leaped dramatically from 5 per cent to over 90 per cent.”

Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry
by Peter Warren Singer
Published 1 Jan 2003

It was discovered in 1990 to be the front for a covert assassination and espionage unit, used to eliminate enemies of the apartheid regime abroad.3 While in the CCB, Barlow, who is recognizable by his one green and one blue eye, was assigned to Western Europe. There, he was in charge of spreading disinformation against Nelson Mandela's African National Congre^ (ANC), for example, releasing propaganda in England that the ANC was working with IRA terrorists. He was also responsible for setting up front corporations to evade sanctions and sell South African weapons abroad. During this time, Barlow is suspected to have made many of his corporate world contacts that would later prove useful for EO.

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Although regular unemployment is ahvays a concern to governments, unemployed former soldiers possess skills that, if thev become disaffected, can make them uniquely dangerous and disruptive. South Africa is a prime example of this factor. Given the checkered history of the soldiers who had served in the elite units of the apartheid-era South African military, the new African National Congress (ANC) government in South .Africa led by Nelson Mandela had a particular incentive to see that these soldiers stayed out of domestic trouble, especially during the first multiracial elections in 1994- This may in part explain the lack of sanction when EO first fought in the Angolan civil war. In public, the Mandela government was decidedly against the firm's activities, as EO w7as acting in contravention of the "new7" South Africa's attempt to become a responsible regional power.r>1 How7ever, in private, it quietly tolerated and even facilitated earlv EO recruitment of these forces.

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The problem is that by limiting themselves to state regimes, PMFs would be agents of the status quo, aiding only those regimes with the money to retain power, while potentially suppressing more legitimate resistance movements or preventing the chances for a conflict to reach a negotiated solution. For example, the Nelson Mandela-led African National Congress and even the Founding Fathers of the United States were groups once classified as rebels or terrorists before they overturned unpop- MORALITY AND THE PRIVATIZED Mil ITARY FIRM 22X ular regimes and became internationally recognized, democratic governments. On the other hand, even when a government is formally recognized by the international community, it still may not be seen as legitimate by a large proportion of its society.

Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
by Timothy Ferriss
Published 6 Dec 2016

And odds are, you can’t either. We all need fuel. Without the assistance, advice, and inspiration of others, the gears of our mind grind to a halt, and we’re stuck with nowhere to go. I have been blessed to find mentors and idols at every step of my life, and I’ve been lucky to meet many of them. From Joe Weider to Nelson Mandela, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Muhammad Ali, from Andy Warhol to George H.W. Bush, I have never been shy about seeking wisdom from others to pour fuel on my fire. You have probably listened to Tim’s podcasts. (I particularly recommend the one with the charming bodybuilder with the Austrian accent.)

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I have my mind inside the pectoral muscles when I do my bench press. I’m really inside, and it’s like I gain a form of meditation, because you have no chance of thinking or concentrating on anything else at that time.” ✸ Who do you think of when you hear the word “successful”? He mentioned several people, including Warren Buffett, Elon Musk, Nelson Mandela, and Muhammad Ali, but his final addition stuck out: “Cincinnatus. He was an emperor in the Roman Empire. Cincinnati, the city, by the way, is named after him because he was a big idol of George Washington’s. He is a great example of success because he was asked to reluctantly step into power and become the emperor and to help, because Rome was about to get annihilated by all the wars and battles.

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* * * Tony Robbins Tony Robbins (TW/FB/IG: @tonyrobbins, tonyrobbins.com) is the world’s most famous performance coach. He’s advised everyone from Bill Clinton and Serena Williams to Leonardo DiCaprio and Oprah (who calls him “superhuman”). Tony Robbins has consulted or advised international leaders including Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, François Mitterrand, Princess Diana, Mother Teresa, and three U.S. presidents. Robbins has also developed and produced five award-winning television infomercials that have continuously aired—on average—every 30 minutes, 24 hours a day, somewhere in North America, since 1989.

Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Published 30 Aug 2021

In the realm of consumer behavior, brands, organizations, and leaders can gain or lose power because they align or fail to align with contemporary moral values. Appealing to moral principles to mobilize people for change is also a universal source of power. If you think back to social change icons like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa or, more recently, Malala Yousafzai, their ideals are what enabled them to influence others. This is also how, in 2019, sixteen-year-old Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future mobilized an estimated 4 million people in 163 countries to march, protest, and join strikes for climate action.68 But while moral appeals are powerful, they are not always virtuous.

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Micah, Kalle, and so many others who occupied their cities had hoped that this would be the protest that led to the rise of a radically new social and economic system. Yet, the capitalist system did not change much, if at all, in the following months. What went wrong? Some may jump to the conclusion that the movement came short because it lacked an exceptionally charismatic leader, like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., or Nelson Mandela. But a single iconic change maker, no matter how remarkable, rarely changes the course of organizations or society on their own, because an isolated individual’s call to action is far too easy to disregard. These iconic figures used their power to inspire and influence thousands, sometimes millions of individuals to step out of their routine and join a movement to bring about the changes they envisioned.

How to Stand Up to a Dictator
by Maria Ressa
Published 19 Oct 2022

Not because she has committed any crime—but because the leaders in her country do not want to hear criticism. So she has a choice: toe the government line and be safe, or risk everything to do her job. She has not hesitated to choose the latter. And I know she will never give up. Throughout history some of the most important voices in society have been persecuted. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were all prosecuted because they criticized the government of the day. At his criminal sedition trial in India, Gandhi told the judge that he did not want mercy for standing up to a government that was trampling on human rights: “I am here . . . to invite and cheerfully submit to the highest penalty that can be inflicted upon me” because “non-co-operation with evil is as much a duty as is co-operation with good.”

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She looked down. “There is no curtailment of the right to freedom of speech and the press. . . . What society expects is a responsible free press. It is in acting responsibly that freedom is given its meaning. The exercise of a freedom should and must be used with due regard to the freedom of others. As Nelson Mandela said, ‘For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.’” Mandela must have been rolling in his grave. I was being convicted for a story I hadn’t written, edited, or supervised, for a crime that hadn’t even existed when the story had been published.

Capitalism: A Ghost Story
by Arundhati Roy
Published 5 May 2014

The report warned of the growing influence of the Soviet Union on the African National Congress (ANC) and said that US strategic and corporate interests (that is, access to South Africa’s minerals) would be best served if there were genuine sharing of political power by all races. The foundations began to support the ANC. The ANC soon turned on the more radical organizations like Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness movement and more or less eliminated it. When Nelson Mandela took over as South Africa’s first Black president, he was canonized as a living saint, not just because he is a freedom fighter who spent twenty-seven years in prison but also because he deferred completely to the Washington Consensus. Socialism disappeared from the ANC’s agenda. South Africa’s great “peaceful transition,” so praised and lauded, meant no land reforms, no demands for reparation, no nationalization of South Africa’s mines.

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right
by Michael Brooks
Published 23 Apr 2020

Similarly, when it comes to political strategy, we should draw inspiration from the history of transnational organizing, in which people from various cultures worked together to overcome some of the twentieth century’s worst oppressions. Take the history of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC), the party of Nelson Mandela. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, the ANC helped smash apartheid and, in fact, still governs the country today. The party’s history exemplifies some of the absolute best of the international socialist tradition—and, tragically, also shows how neoliberalism, appealing to narrowly-conceived identity politics, and authoritarianism can undermine revolutionary momentum.

The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Published 23 Sep 2019

These involved the transfer of equity from a white company to a black person or black-run company. As early as 1993 the financial services company Sanlam sold 10 percent of its stake in Metropolitan Life to a black-owned consortium led by Nthato Motlana, a former secretary of the ANC’s Youth League and onetime doctor to the ANC’s leader and future president Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. After 1994 the number of such BEE deals began to grow rapidly, reaching 281 by 1998. By this time some estimates suggest that as much as 10 percent of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) was owned by black businesses. The problem was that the black people who wanted to buy shares often could not afford to.

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This was a signal that the re-empowered black majority under the ANC’s leadership would not seek revenge against whites. But relationships and guarantees are not enough unless there is trust between the partners in the coalition, and here symbolic gestures of compromise matter greatly. This is where Nelson Mandela’s inspiring leadership played a critical role. One episode epitomizing Mandela’s efforts took place on June 24, 1995, on the day of the first Rugby World Cup final in South Africa. The country’s national team, the Springboks, was allowed to compete for the first time, after the end of the international boycott against the apartheid regime, and was facing the odds-on favorite, the New Zealand All Blacks.

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The country’s national team, the Springboks, was allowed to compete for the first time, after the end of the international boycott against the apartheid regime, and was facing the odds-on favorite, the New Zealand All Blacks. The Springbok rugby team was closely identified with apartheid, and its jersey was an Afrikaner symbol, much hated by the black population. How would the president of the new, post-apartheid South Africa perform his duties as head of state on this day? Brilliantly, as it turned out. Nelson Mandela added to his year-long efforts to remove the bitterness and distrust between the black majority and the white minority by turning up wearing the Springbok jersey with the number 6 of the captain, François Pienaar. The 63,000-strong audience, about 62,000 of them white, and mostly Afrikaners, were stunned.

The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by Paul Gilding
Published 28 Mar 2011

Each held different levels of personal spiritual alignment with this position of hope, but they were all united in their strategic pragmatism. Hope works. Martin Luther King’s famous speech was not “I have a nightmare based on the evidence of racism all around me every day and the inability of people to change,” it was “I have a dream.” Nelson Mandela faced a country that was on the verge of collapse and chaos, with devastating violence between blacks and a ruthless white government that had been fighting change with military force for decades with the support of the white population. Despite having been imprisoned for decades, he drew on the best of humanity in himself and called on all the people of South Africa to aspire to a united country.

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If we want a world that works, we’re going to have to raise our voices. McKibben is right. This is a time we need to be clear, loud, and focused in our message. What big oil and coal companies are doing is just plain wrong, and it must be stopped, urgently. The right strategy model for this is Nelson Mandela and the end of apartheid. He was a leader who never once backed way from the rightness of his cause or compromised his goal, but still approached those who opposed him with humanity. This was all the more remarkable remembering that his enemies kept him in jail for twenty-seven years and murdered his friends and colleagues.

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
by Noam Chomsky
Published 1 Jan 2003

It is illuminating to see how they reacted, say, to Tony Blair’s repetition of the official reasons for the bombing of Serbia in 1999: failure to bomb “would have dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of NATO” and “the world would have been less safe as a result of that.” The objects of NATO’s solicitude did not seem overly impressed by the need to safeguard the credibility of those who had been crushing them for centuries. Nelson Mandela, for example, condemned Blair for “encouraging international chaos, together with America, by ignoring other nations and playing ‘policeman of the world’” in their attacks on Iraq in 1998 and Serbia the next year. In the world’s largest democracy—which, after independence, began to recover from the grim effects of centuries of British rule—the Clinton-Blair efforts to shore up NATO’s credibility and make the world safe were also not appreciated, but official and press condemnations in India remained unheard.

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A UNICEF study estimated a death toll of 850,000 infants and young children in these two countries—150,000 in 1988 alone, reversing gains of the early post-independence years primarily through the weapon of “mass terrorism.” That is putting aside South Africa’s practices within its own borders, where it was defending civilization against the onslaughts of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress, one of the “more notorious terrorist groups,” according to a 1988 Pentagon report. Meanwhile the Reaganites evaded sanctions, increased trade, and provided valuable diplomatic support for South Africa.3 One of the endeavors of the current incumbents has become well known: the success of the CIA and its associates during the 1980s in recruiting radical Islamists and organizing them into a military and terrorist force.

The Virgin Way: Everything I Know About Leadership
by Richard Branson
Published 8 Sep 2014

But, all joking aside, listening and taking notes are clearly habits that have served Stelios well . . . oops, correction, make that Sir Stelios; he was knighted by the Queen in 2006 for ‘services to entrepreneurship’ – and note-taking. I can’t promise knighthoods for everyone, but if you’re still not convinced let me suggest you try a self-imposed crash course in listening more and talking less and I promise you will be amazed at the immediate benefits you’ll observe. SAY LESS – CONTRIBUTE MORE While the late Nelson Mandela was a man of innumerable talents, one that always impressed me the most about him was his unfailing willingness to listen to what others had to say. Even during his long years in prison he took time to listen to what his jailers had to say about life, so much so that he made them the first people he publicly forgave when he was released.

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Few other people could have galvanised the formation of the Elders in the way that Madiba did and yet few people were better qualified to appreciate the critical role the ability to listen plays in diplomacy, business and life in general. Another remarkable human being and listener par excellence is Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who as a close friend of Nelson Mandela’s was a founding member of the Elders and chaired the group from 2007 until 2013. Seldom in history has a nation put more faith in the healing power of listening than post-apartheid South Africa did with its Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). President Mandela named Desmond Tutu to chair the historic commission’s work, the primary focus of which was on those who had suffered human rights abuses as a result of apartheid between 1960 and 1994.

Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement
by Amy Lang and Daniel Lang/levitsky
Published 11 Jun 2012

When I visit prisoners at the supermaximum security prison in Youngstown, more than one officer has called out, ‘Remember me, Staughton? I used to be your client.’ When they could not find other work in our depressed city, which has the highest rate of poverty in the United States, many former steelworkers and truck drivers took prison jobs. Nelson Mandela befriended a guard at Robben Island whose particular assignment was to watch over him. The officer, James Gregory, has written a book about it sub-titled Nelson Mandela: My Prisoner, My Friend. Mr Gregory had a seat near the front at Mr Mandela’s inauguration. The same logic applies to soldiers in a volunteer army. Thus one Occupier has written, ‘A thoughtful soldier, a soldier with a conscience, is the 1%’s worst nightmare.’2 In the end, I think, consensus decision-making and nonviolence both have to do with building a community of trust.

Zero-Sum Future: American Power in an Age of Anxiety
by Gideon Rachman
Published 1 Feb 2011

Thatcher was not exaggerating hugely when she wrote in her memoirs, “The West’s system of liberty, which Ronald Reagan and I personified in the eastern bloc, was increasingly in the ascendant; the Soviet system was showing its cracks.”21 While Thatcher and Reagan’s support of democracy in Eastern Europe fits a narrative in which the advances of economic and political freedom throughout the 1980s were essentially inseparable, elsewhere things were more complicated. The exigencies of the cold war and Thatcher’s admiration for capitalism and aversion to socialism meant that she enjoyed cordial relations with some right-wing dictators and excoriated some genuine freedom fighters. Thatcher notoriously referred to Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress as a “terrorist” organization—and there are warm references in her memoirs to dictators such as Suharto of Indonesia and General Augusto Pinochet in Chile. But while Thatcher may have exaggerated the extent to which she and Ronald Reagan always represented “freedom,” there is no doubt about the potency and importance of their transatlantic partnership and their promotion of free markets.

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But by the time apartheid was brought down in the mid-1990s and South Africa achieved its freedom, the Soviet Union no longer existed. The collapse of the Soviet Union freed white South Africa of its fear of the “red menace” and made it easier to contemplate the end of apartheid. The government of the new South Africa did contain members of the Communist Party. But the ministers in Nelson Mandela’s first government donned suits and ties, pursued orthodox economic policies, and embraced globalization. The idea of “roundtable negotiations” that helped to bring a peaceful end to communism in Central Europe also served as a model for the negotiations that brought a peaceful end to apartheid and a transition to democracy in South Africa.

Who Rules the World?
by Noam Chomsky

Similarly, in Iran we honor the courageous dissidents and condemn those who defend the clerical establishment. And so on elsewhere generally. In this way, the honorable term “dissident” is used selectively. It does not, of course, apply, with its favorable connotations, to value-oriented intellectuals at home or to those who combat U.S.-supported tyranny abroad. Take the interesting case of Nelson Mandela, who was only removed from the official State Department terrorist list in 2008, allowing him to travel to the United States without special authorization. Twenty years earlier, he was the criminal leader of one of the world’s “more notorious terrorist groups,” according to a Pentagon report.12 That is why President Reagan had to support the apartheid regime, increasing trade with South Africa in violation of congressional sanctions and supporting South Africa’s depredations in neighboring countries, which led, according to a UN study, to 1.5 million deaths.13 That was only one episode in the war on terrorism that Reagan declared to combat “the plague of the modern age,” or, as Secretary of State George Shultz had it, “a return to barbarism in the modern age.”14 We may add hundreds of thousands of corpses in Central America and tens of thousands more in the Middle East, among other achievements.

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-backed terrorist operations in Angola, Cuban forces drove South African aggressors out of the country, compelled them to leave illegally occupied Namibia, and opened the way for the Angolan election in which, after his defeat, Savimbi “dismissed entirely the views of nearly 800 foreign elections observers here that the balloting … was generally free and fair,” as the New York Times reported, and continued the terrorist war with U.S. support.4 Cuban achievements in the liberation of Africa and the ending of apartheid were hailed by Nelson Mandela when he was finally released from prison. Among his first acts was to declare that “during all my years in prison, Cuba was an inspiration and Fidel Castro a tower of strength … [Cuban victories] destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor [and] inspired the fighting masses of South Africa … a turning point for the liberation of our continent—and of my people—from the scourge of apartheid.… What other country can point to a record of greater selflessness than Cuba has displayed in its relations to Africa?”

How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story
by Billy Gallagher
Published 13 Feb 2018

It had only been two short years since Snapchat took advantage of front-facing cameras on iPhones to explode from an unknown startup to one of the fastest-growing tech companies on the planet. As Snapchat grew, the selfie tipped over into the mainstream. President Barack Obama made worldwide headlines when he joined Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and British prime minister David Cameron in a smiling selfie during a memorial celebration for Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, South Africa. And the trend would only continue. At the start of 2014, Academy Awards host Ellen DeGeneres walked down the aisle of the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood with her phone out, taking a selfie with Liza Minelli and talking about it like a teenage Snapchatter. She stopped by Meryl Streep and said she wanted to pay homage to Streep’s record eighteen Oscar nominations by breaking the record for most retweeted picture ever.

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Evan hates the expansive, all-company open-floor plans that many tech giants favor, preferring places where small groups can be in the same room. Each team works in the same room, but only with their team, not the entire division or company. Evan has arranged for artists who inspire him to decorate Snapchat’s offices. Inside, the exposed brick walls are covered in illustrated portraits of Tina Fey, George Clooney, Andy Warhol, Nelson Mandela, Daft Punk, and other celebrities. Every one of the stars is portrayed through a phone screen taking a selfie. In August 2013, a friend of Evan’s had been meeting with Paramount Television president Amy Powell and snapped a portrait of Steve Jobs in her office to him. Evan loved it and tracked down the artist, ThankYouX, aka Ryan Wilson.

The Cold War: A World History
by Odd Arne Westad
Published 4 Sep 2017

In spite of its domestic failures, however, Ben Bella’s Algeria became a centerpiece for Third World revolutionaries from Africa and the Middle East. Two of the main groups fighting against Portugal, which still held on to its African colonies, were headquartered there—the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). Nelson Mandela, the leader of the South African National Congress (ANC), spent time in Algiers, where he received military training, as did revolutionaries from Congo, Rhodesia, and Palestine. Malcolm X and other African-American militants visited, and several of the leaders of the Black Panther movement later took refuge there.

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But unlike more radical Third World countries, Nehru continued to believe that cooperation with Europeans was possible, and that violent conflict should be avoided. Radicals such as Nasser were disappointed with India’s position in favor of negotiations during the Suez Crisis or its lack of military support for African liberation movements. Nasser, Ben Bella, and Nelson Mandela deplored India’s emphasis on mediation and arbitration, and its continued willingness to remain within the British Commonwealth. Within India itself, however, Nehru was moving further to the Left in his attempts to further his country’s rapid development. Since the 1930s, the Congress leadership had been fascinated with Soviet planning models and the success these plans seemed to have in modernizing a backward country.

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On other matters, internal and external, the Cold War became increasingly important in southern Africa in the 1980s. Botha viewed his own regime as essentially anti-Communist. His argument for clinging to the fiction of “independent” homelands for blacks within South Africa was that majority rule would mean a victory for Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC), which was in alliance with the South African Communist Party. South Africa also continued to occupy the neighboring country of Namibia (also known as South West Africa), in spite of countless UN resolutions demanding its withdrawal. Meanwhile, Botha stepped up the policy of trying to destabilize the next-door countries of Angola and Mozambique, on the pretext that they were allied with the Soviet Union and gave refuge to ANC exiles.

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and Its Solutions
by Jason Hickel
Published 3 May 2017

When Angola finally won its independence and Neto became president, the US feared that Neto, a developmentalist, would nationalise the oil reserves, so they threw substantial support behind his opponent, the brutal rebel leader Jonas Savimbi, fuelling a civil war that would last until 2002 and leave Angola in ruins. And then there was South Africa. Both the United States and Britain actively supported the apartheid regime all the way through the 1980s, for they feared that if Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress ever came to power they would nationalise the country’s enormous deposits of gold, diamonds and platinum, which American and British companies controlled. But no Western power intervened in postcolonial Africa as much as France. After Francophone Africa won formal independence in 1960, France worried it would lose control over the region’s resources to the nationalist movements.

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Economic and political freedom has been attacked, ironically, in the name of economic and political freedom. Structural adjustment is a powerful manifestation of this paradox, but it has also been perpetrated in other, more insidious ways. Six Free Trade and the Rise of the Virtual Senate Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Nelson Mandela At the same time that structural adjustment was being imposed across the global South, cracking open markets and clearing the way for Western exports and multinational companies, there was already something else afoot – yet another tactic with which the South would have to contend. A new organisation was being designed that would govern the emerging world of global commerce.

Fall: The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain's Most Notorious Media Baron
by John Preston
Published 9 Feb 2021

(Maxwell family archives, first published in Joe Haines, Maxwell, Orion, 1988.) Maxwell with Barry in post-war Berlin. (Maxwell family archives, first published in Joe Haines, Maxwell, Orion, 1988.) here Clash of the titans: a rare photograph of Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch in the same room. (Mirrorpix.) here A genius for hobnobbing: Maxwell with Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. (Mirrorpix.) here ‘That odious man’: Maxwell with Princess Diana. (Mirrorpix.) here When the going was good: Maxwell with Andrea Martin and Peter Jay. (Mirrorpix.) here Up above the clouds: Maxwell stretched out on his private jet. (Mirrorpix.) Headington Hill Hall: ‘the best council house in the country’.

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Maxwell and Betty shortly after their marriage. Maxwell with Barry in post-war Berlin. Clash of the titans: a rare photograph of Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch in the same room, together with the Japanese businessman Yosaji Kobayashi. A genius for hobnobbing: Maxwell with Mrs Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. ‘That odious man’: Maxwell with Princess Diana. When the going was good: Maxwell with Andrea Martin and Peter Jay. Up above the clouds: Maxwell stretched out on his private jet. Headington Hill Hall: ‘the best council house in the country’. The Mirror pulls out all the stops to report Maxwell’s death.

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
by Wikileaks
Published 24 Aug 2015

By the early 1990s, internal unrest and international sanctions brought the apartheid regime to the brink of collapse. In response, the de Klerk regime was forced to release political prisoners and legalize opposition movements such as the African National Congress. The release in February 1990 of ANC leader Nelson Mandela epitomized this momentum toward majority rule. The growing unrest and clamor for change are reflected in a March 1990 cable, for instance, that transcribes a speech delivered in Durban by the US ambassador, which vividly reflects the contentious relations between the African nationalists led by Mandela and the Bush administration.

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The growing unrest and clamor for change are reflected in a March 1990 cable, for instance, that transcribes a speech delivered in Durban by the US ambassador, which vividly reflects the contentious relations between the African nationalists led by Mandela and the Bush administration. The ambassador emphasized that the US continued to oppose apartheid but vowed that the US would reject any settlement that was not acceptable to all parties [90CAPETOWN623_a]. The ambassador noted that President Bush had invited both F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela to the White House. He took time to praise de Klerk for releasing political prisoners, and called on US allies in Europe to support the South African prime minister. The speech underscores the Bush administration’s tilt toward the white-minority regime. The ambassador clearly signaled the Bush administration’s ambivalence about the US sanctions mandated by the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 and 1988.

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The ambassador clearly signaled the Bush administration’s ambivalence about the US sanctions mandated by the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986 and 1988. His boss, George Bush, had opposed both pieces of legislation as vice president in the Reagan administration. The Clinton administration established a closer relationship with South Africa. This is reflected in the diplomats’ unusual interest in Thabo Mbeki, the presumed successor to Nelson Mandela. In March 1995, for example, in a confidential intelligence assessment, the INR posited that Thabo Mbeki would probably succeed Mandela as ANC leader and thus as the next South African president [1995STATE51417_a]. The report describes Mbeki as a “moderate” but warns that “growing rifts within the ANC will increasingly test Mbeki’s leadership.”

Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
by Angela Nagle
Published 6 Jun 2017

Third, this laughter is ambivalent; it is gay, triumphant, and at the same time mocking, deriding. The transgressive style is not without precedent on the formally political conservative right, either. The Federation of Conservative Students in the UK famously shocked with a poster saying ‘Hang Nelson Mandela’ and criticized Thatcher for her soft touch, perhaps an early version of the ‘cuckervative’ jibe. They also had libertarian and authoritarian wings of thought, but certainly constituted a break from the decorum of the Burkeans, adopting some of the harder edge of the Thatcher era, even flirting with far-right ideas.

Beyond Outrage: Expanded Edition: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy, and How to Fix It
by Robert B. Reich
Published 3 Sep 2012

In 1966, Huerta negotiated a contract between the farmworkers and the Schenley Wine Company; it was the first time farmworkers effectively negotiated a contract to improve their pay and working conditions. Or think of other great leaders who had no formal authority but changed the world—Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela. Leaders get people to actively work on what needs to be done. To do this, leaders need to help people overcome the four “work-avoidance mechanisms” that most of the rest of us carry around in our heads. Those mechanisms are denial that a problem exists, the desire to escape responsibility even when we recognize the problem, the tendency to scapegoat others for causing it, and—worst of all—cynicism about the possibility of ever remedying the problem.

Autism: A Very Short Introduction
by Uta Frith
Published 22 Oct 2008

Deary INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION Khalid Koser INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Paul Wilkinson ISLAM Malise Ruthven JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves JUDAISM Norman Solomon JUNG Anthony Stevens KABBALAH Joseph Dan KAFKA Ritchie Robertson KANT Roger Scruton KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner THE KORAN Michael Cook LAW Raymond Wacks LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler LOCKE John Dunn LOGIC Graham Priest MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MARX Peter Singer MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers THE MEANING OF LIFE Terry Eagleton MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ralph A. Griffiths MEMORY Jonathan Foster MODERN ART David Cottington MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta MOLECULES Philip Ball MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman MUSIC Nicholas Cook MYTH Robert A. Segal NATIONALISM Steven Grosby NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE Kyle Keefer NEWTON Robert Iliffe NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew NORTHERN IRELAND Marc Mulholland NUCLEAR WEAPONS Joseph M. Siracusa THE OLD TESTAMENT Michael D. Coogan PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close PAUL E.

9-11
by Noam Chomsky
Published 29 Aug 2011

The toll of Reagan’s war on terror included hundreds of thousands of corpses in Central America, over a million in Angola and Mozambique where Reagan was strongly supporting the apartheid South African regime in its defense against “one of the more notorious terrorist groups” in the world (1988, Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress), tens of thousands in the Middle East, and much else. All dispatched to the memory hole along with other matters of little consequence. 19. I know of no comprehensive study, but it seems quite clear that reactions were considerably different in the West and the Global South, where events of little consequence tend to be remembered.

Small Change: Why Business Won't Save the World
by Michael Edwards
Published 4 Jan 2010

The Omidyar Network is investing heavily in civil society development in West Africa through a new African foundation called TrustAfrica. Richard Branson and others are supporting interventions in conflict situations by the Elders, a group of eminent statesmen and stateswomen whose numbers include Nelson Mandela, Mary Robinson, and Jimmy Carter. And some of the important commons-based experiments cited above are funded by software companies such as Sun Microsystems and Microsoft, presumably not entirely without self-interest, given that they rely on the infrastructure of computers and the Internet. the good, the bad, and the ugly 31 the bad Less good, and merging into bad, is corporate social responsibility, or at least those parts of CSR that are closer to windowdressing than substantive reform — for example, Coca-Cola, releasing its first review of corporate responsibility at the same time as contaminating water supplies in India; Intel, which exited the One Laptop per Child project because of “philosophical differences” that turned out to be a more basic desire to protect its market for higher-priced hardware and more profits for itself; Walmart, now selling environmentally friendly light bulbs and the like but still engaged in “wage theft” (depressing living wages by withholding benefits and opposing unionization), as author Kim Bobo puts it; and a whole raft of oil companies, mining companies, supermarkets, and others whose performance in CSR doesn’t match their public statements.28 As in these examples, too much CSR is a case of one step forward, two steps back, giving with one hand and taking with the other.

Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
by Ruchir Sharma
Published 8 Apr 2012

Given both countries’ histories of racial strife, many observers figured it was only a matter of time before South Africa, too, succumbed to violent demands that whites yield a share of the wealth to the millions of blacks who were still mired in poverty, without jobs or land of their own. That March I decided to go see for myself if these dark predictions had merit. Arriving on a Sunday morning in Cape Town, my first stop was Robben Island, the infamous former penal colony where Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the black liberation movement were held for decades. Its squalid jail cells were the very symbol of apartheid-era oppression, but I found to my astonishment that many of the retired white prison guards were still living on the island with several former black prisoners, who were serving as guides to visitors like me.

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In South Africa the limits to racial integration outside the office environment are clear in fine restaurants, where it is hard to find blacks among the diners. For many years it struck me as remarkable that most black South Africans were so determined to reconcile—the grace and statesmanship for which Nelson Mandela became internationally famous appeared to spring from a steadfast national character. Now, after many years without real progress, that statesmanship is starting to look like stagnation. During the years of the economic boom from 2003 to 2007, South African growth did accelerate but only from 3 percent to 5 percent, much slower than the emerging-market average, and it has since fallen back to 3 percent.

What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems
by Linda Yueh
Published 4 Jun 2018

With the unemployment rate at over 25 per cent, the lack of jobs, particularly for the black population, is a recurrent concern. Some of these economic woes are legacies of apartheid, which was a system of racial segregation in place between 1948 and the early 1990s. It was ended after the release from prison in 1990 of Nelson Mandela, who was later elected president. Mandela had worked for decades to end the unfair system that designated the majority of the South African population second-class citizens. Even though official discrimination against blacks has ended, they remain less well off economically more than two decades later.

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It’s an example of Douglass North’s path dependence and why institutions are slow to change, even with the will to do so. And how it takes time for a disadvantaged group to advance even after the formal barriers have been removed since they start from a weaker economic position. It’s one of the challenges holding back the country’s growth potential decades after Nelson Mandela led the nation into a new era. This jars with the perception that South Africa is an attractive destination for investors. This is why the country has been described as having a First World financial market within a Third World economic system. Further reform of its economic and political institutions is needed to close that gap, as South Africa has been a beacon for the sub-Saharan region but also epitomizes the development challenges the region still faces.

Hopes and Prospects
by Noam Chomsky
Published 1 Jan 2009

Through the 1980s, U.S. trade with South Africa increased despite the 1985 congressional sanctions (which Reagan evaded), and Reagan continued to back South African depredations in neighboring countries that led to an estimated 1.5 million deaths. As late as 1988 the administration condemned Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress as one of the world’s “more notorious terrorist groups.”40 The Apartheid regime remained strong, some thought invulnerable. But then U.S. policy shifted, and within a few years, the regime had collapsed. There are clear lessons here both for Israelis and for those outside who are committed to bringing some measure of peace and justice to the region.

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That war on terror has also been expunged from historical consciousness, because the outcome cannot readily be incorporated into the canon: hundreds of thousands slaughtered in the ruined countries of Central America and many more elsewhere, among them an estimated 1.5 million in the terrorist wars sponsored in neighboring countries by Reagan’s favored ally, Apartheid South Africa, which had to defend itself from Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress, one of the more world’s “more notorious terrorist groups,” so Washington determined in 1988. In fairness, it should be added that twenty years later Congress voted to remove the ANC from the list of terrorist organizations, so that Mandela is now at last able to enter the United States without obtaining a waiver from the government.14 The reigning doctrine is sometimes called “American exceptional-ism.”

The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today
by Linda Yueh
Published 15 Mar 2018

With the unemployment rate at over 25 per cent, the lack of jobs, particularly for the black population, is a recurrent concern. Some of these economic woes are legacies of apartheid, which was a system of racial segregation in place between 1948 and the early 1990s. It was ended after the release from prison in 1990 of Nelson Mandela, who was later elected president. Mandela had worked for decades to end the unfair system that designated the majority of the South African population second-class citizens. Even though official discrimination against blacks has ended, they remain less well off economically more than two decades later.

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It’s an example of Douglass North’s path dependence and why institutions are slow to change, even with the will to do so. And how it takes time for a disadvantaged group to advance even after the formal barriers have been removed since they start from a weaker economic position. It’s one of the challenges holding back the country’s growth potential decades after Nelson Mandela led the nation into a new era. This jars with the perception that South Africa is an attractive destination for investors. This is why the country has been described as having a First World financial market within a Third World economic system. Further reform of its economic and political institutions is needed to close that gap, as South Africa has been a beacon for the sub-Saharan region but also epitomizes the development challenges the region still faces.

The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
by Sonia Shah

We watched on television, the night the news came out, as thousands of ecstatic young people stormed the wall en masse for an impromptu, all-night dance party atop it. A few months later there was dancing in the streets again when the president of South Africa released the revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela from a twenty-seven-year imprisonment, ushering in the end of the harsh system of racial segregation known as apartheid. New graduates like me felt a deep sense of relief. The world seemed immeasurably safer without two superpowers loudly threatening nuclear holocaust. But soon a new global bogeyman2 emerged, one even more chaotic and disruptive than nuclear missiles.

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a robotics professor plotted fifteen years Adele Peters, “Watch the Movements of Every Refugee on Earth Since the Year 2000,” Fast Company, May 31, 2017. Over the last few years “Global Animal Movements Based on Movebank Data (Map),” Movebank, YouTube, August 16, 2017, https://youtu.be/nUKh0fr1Od8. 2: PANIC In late 1989 Soviet-aligned officials “Revellers Rush on Hated Gates,” Guardian, November 10, 1989; “February 11, 1990: Freedom for Nelson Mandela,” On This Day 1950–2005, BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/11/newsid_2539000/2539947.stm. But soon a new global bogeyman Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy,” Atlantic, February 1994. The idea of migrants as a national security threat McLeman, Climate and Human Migration due to sea-level rise McLeman, Climate and Human Migration, 212.

After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made
by Ben Rhodes
Published 1 Jun 2021

I believed that what they wanted was simple: They wanted freedom, and that meant that America—in my young boy’s mind—was winning. The winds of change. This was freedom’s high-water mark. In a dizzying few years, the Communist regimes of Eastern Europe collapsed, followed by the Soviet Union. Nelson Mandela strode out of a South African prison. Right-wing dictatorships tumbled from South America to Southeast Asia, no longer a useful extension of American anticommunism. The organizing principle of American politics disappeared as well: the Cold War, which had driven everything from our ascent to the moon, to the structure of our government, to the pop culture that shaped my worldview through osmosis.

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Eastern European countries like Hungary democratized. Soviet republics like Ukraine declared independence. America distanced itself from autocratic right-wing allies who had formed a bulwark against Communism around the world. Democracy bloomed in Latin America and in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia. Nelson Mandela walked out of prison. The Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. China opened up its economy, but not its political system. “The Communist Party,” Bao Pu said, “they see the outcome of the Cold War. And so now they unanimously conclude that if we don’t actually strengthen Party control, we’re finished—just like the Soviet Communists

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World
by Timothy Garton Ash
Published 23 May 2016

A provision of the Chilean constitution was actually amended in response to a judgement of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which ruled that Chile should not have banned a film called ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’.129 Some of these traditions and values may have come originally in the wake of European colonialism, but even where they did, they have taken root in local soil and been changed in the process. South Africa combines a Dutch and English legal heritage with strong native traditions, memorably evoked in Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom. A comparable blending can be observed in English-, French-, Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries around the world, from Australia to Chile and Kenya to Venezuela. India has an ancient, original heritage of religious and political thought relating to freedom of expression, yet its contemporary free speech debates often revolve around the proper interpretation of a penal code originally drafted by the nineteenth-century English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay.130 All are also influenced by the international legal and human rights framework developed since 1945.

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Jeremy Waldron argues that the law should protect people’s dignity but that it should not protect them from offence. He suggests that dignity concerns the ‘objective or social aspects of a person’s standing in society’, but offence ‘subjective aspects of feeling, including hurt, shock and anger’. ‘Offence’, he says, ‘is inherently a subjective reaction’.63 But, what if I choose, like Nelson Mandela and many dignified African Americans in the last century, to maintain that those who are truly demeaned are not the targets of racist abuse but their abusers? Are we to say ‘no, objectively, Comrade Mandela, your dignity has been demeaned, even if you maintain it has not. Who are you to say whether you have kept your dignity?’

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The ignorance of literature and history behind this writing is indeed laughable; more regrettably, the author forgot precisely the most important political ideal which Yu the Great has left the Chinese people: “Those who regulate rivers lead the flood; those who regulate people dredge [channels] and let them talk”’.109 (The ignorance is ‘laughable’ because Yu the Great is a legendary figure, as well known to the Chinese reader as King Arthur is to the British, and is thought to have lived some 4,000 years ago, not 2,000.) In his autobiography, Nelson Mandela recalls the almost Athenian practice of his African home village: Everyone who wanted to speak did so. It was democracy in its purest form. There may have been a hierarchy of importance among the speakers, but everyone was heard: chief and subject, warrior and medicine man, shopkeeper and farmer, landowner and labourer.

A United Ireland: Why Unification Is Inevitable and How It Will Come About
by Kevin Meagher
Published 15 Nov 2016

Indeed, without such support, the balance may well have tipped towards the militarists who were content to make ‘the long war’ against the British state even longer. Like many on the left, Corbyn saw Ireland as a classic struggle for national selfdetermination against colonial rule. But he was by no means alone. Nelson Mandela may be the safest of safe options for any politician responding to the question ‘who do you most admire in politics?’ but he was also a strong supporter of Irish Republicanism. It was an association that weathered his transformation into international statesman. Indeed, Gerry Adams was part of the honour guard for Mandela’s funeral.

You Are What You Read
by Jodie Jackson
Published 3 Apr 2019

The news industry’s resistance to change will only be overcome by seeing worthwhile results. Industries that have gone through their own consumer-driven evolution all have one thing in common: they rely on a conscious consumer. And a critical requirement for us to become conscious about our consumption is education. It was Nelson Mandela who said, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ Once we are educated about the helpful and harmful effects of the news, we are equipped to shift from being consumers to being conscious consumers. Wilbur Schramm, a sociologist researching the relationship between news and national development, said, ‘Change will not take place unless those who are expected to change know and accept the reasons, the methods, and the rewards for changing.’2 Those of us who learn the ‘why’ of anything will always find the ‘how’.

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change From the Cult of Technology
by Kentaro Toyama
Published 25 May 2015

Recently popular virtues such as grit and resilience are similar recombinations of heart, mind, and will. Cross-cultural analyses show that these and other virtues are valued throughout the world, even if their relative emphasis varies.20 When you ask people who they believe to be civilization’s wisest people, they nominate people like Socrates, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, Daw Aung Sang Suu Kyi, and so on.21 Notably, the lists typically exclude the likes of Mozart and Steve Jobs, even if the latter might have been wise in limited domains. Intelligence, talent, and brilliance aren’t the same as heart, mind, and will, although some IQ might be needed for good discernment.

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Patrinos and his colleague George Psacharopoulos noted, “it is established beyond any reasonable doubt that there are tangible and measurable returns to investment in education.” Based on data from a range of countries, they estimated the economic rate of return to nationwide education programs to be roughly 10 percent.36 But Nelson Mandela once said that “education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world,” and he was certainly not just talking about economic change.37 In fact, education’s benefits go well beyond economic productivity. Here, for example, is Patrinos’s own catalog of the benefits of girls’ education: A year of schooling for girls reduces infant mortality by 5 to 10 percent.

The Abandonment of the West
by Michael Kimmage
Published 21 Apr 2020

In the words of the journalist Charles Krauthammer, who blurbed The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which had gained a clause and lost a question mark from the article, Fukuyama’s theses were “bold, lucid, scandalously brilliant. Until now, the triumph of the West was merely a fact. Fukuyama has given it a deep and highly original meaning.”32 An intervening event between the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe and the appearance of Fukuyama’s book was the release of the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela from a South African prison in February 1990. The pernicious legacy of European imperialism had fallen on Mandela’s shoulders, and throughout the Cold War the United States had stood with the practitioners of apartheid. The CIA may even have assisted the South African government in Mandela’s arrest in August 1962.

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Bloom, Closing of the American Mind, 322, 320, 321, 380, 256. 31. Bloom, Closing of the American Mind, 312, 79, 382. 32. See Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” National Interest, no. 16 (Summer 1989): 3–18; and Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992). 33. On the CIA and Nelson Mandela, see Borstelmann, Cold War and the Color Line, 156. 34. Fukuyama, End of History, 323, 48. 35. Fukuyama, End of History, xiii, 7, 48. 36. Fukuyama, End of History, 18. 37. Fukuyama, End of History, 45. CHAPTER SIX: THE POST–COLUMBIAN REPUBLIC, 1992–2016 1. McNeill, Pursuit of Truth, 133, 136. 2.

Targeted: The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower's Inside Story of How Big Data, Trump, and Facebook Broke Democracy and How It Can Happen Again
by Brittany Kaiser
Published 21 Oct 2019

“What message does Brittany need to hear?” Alexander asked me, and clicked over to another slide. We need to create “adverts just for Brittany,” he said, looked at me again, and smiled. “Just for the things she cares about and not for anything else.” At the end of his presentation, he pulled up an image of Nelson Mandela. Mandela was in my pantheon of superheroes. I had worked with one of his best friends in South Africa, someone who had been imprisoned with him on Robben Island. I had even helped run a Women’s Day event in South Africa for Mandela’s longtime partner, Winnie, but I’d never gotten the chance to shake the hand of the man himself.

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BDI began to look at the ways in which human behavior could be understood, and then influenced, through communication. Out of this research, BDI produced significant findings useful for stopping violence, and it began to consult in the defense industry. When the Oakes brothers ran a defense campaign to stop election violence in South Africa in 1994, they helped to bring about the peaceful election of Nelson Mandela. As Alexander had shown me when I first visited the SCL offices, Mandela himself had endorsed SCL. The company’s first golden age began after September 11, 2001, when SCL became an essential partner with governments, including the United Kingdom, in the fight against terrorism. It was an integral part of helping to fight Al-Qaeda messaging.

Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
by Joe Karaganis
Published 3 May 2018

Some racially segregated colleges were started de novo; others emerged from branches of the distance education provider, UNISA, which later grew into the largest provider of higher education in the country. Among the casualties of these policies were the handful of high-quality colleges that served black students, including the University of Fort Hare, founded by Scottish missionaries in 1916 as the South African Native College. The education Fore Hare offered was elite and Eurocentric—in Nelson Mandela’s words, “For young black South Africans like myself, it was Oxford and Cambridge, Harvard and Yale, all rolled into one” (Mandela 1994, 7). It was not a large institution, yet by the time that the apartheid regime reclassified it as a Bantu tribal university, its alumni included a long list of African heads of government and future leaders of the apartheid struggle.2 White South Africans attended urban English or Afrikaans universities, perceived as liberal and conservative, respectively.

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This set of practical workarounds against censorship, the boycott, high costs, and inadequate distribution systems became one of the major forms of curricular continuity between the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. Post-apartheid Higher Education Policy The announcement of the end of apartheid came suddenly and, to most South Africans, unexpectedly, in a speech by President F. W. de Klerk in February 1990, which lifted the ban on the African National Congress, announced the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, and opened the way for negotiations for democratic elections. General elections, with full enfranchisement of black South Africans, took place four years later, resulting in a major victory by the ANC. Higher education policy development at this stage grappled with two distinct—though often intertwining and sometimes contradictory—challenges.

Africa: A Biography of the Continent
by John Reader
Published 5 Nov 1998

The South African election brought Nelson Mandela to power – a man whose strengths had been preserved intact by twenty-seven years of incarceration. By imprisoning him indefinitely, the apartheid regime had sought to remove Mandela's influence from the mainstream of political development, but in fact they had intensified it. Nelson Mandela emerged from prison perfectly equipped for his role in the new South Africa – unbowed by the oppression and indignities of the white regime, untainted by the failures and corruption of independent black Africa, steeled by years of study and reflection. Nelson Mandela and the shift in political power that he represents affirm the value of integrity and ideals in an era when economic pragmatism is the dominant theme of world affairs.

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Free elections had taken place on 26 April 1994. For the first time ever, the black majority of the country's 22.7 million electorate had voted. As had been expected, the African National Congress (ANC) secured a convincing majority in a multiracial parliament with a power-sharing government. Nelson Mandela, the man gaoled for treason in 1964 and released only in 1990, became president. The events which occurred simultaneously in Rwanda and South Africa in April 1994 were at opposite extremes of human social behaviour; they demonstrate the depths and the heights to which humanity may fall or rise as it contends with the fundamentals of human existence.

Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Published 4 Oct 2005

There was strong opposition to apartheid at the time, and Congress had passed legislation banning aid for South Africa. The Reaganites had to find ways to get around congressional legislation in order to in fact increase their trade with South Africa. So they said that South Africa was defending itself against one of the “more notorious terrorist groups” in the world, namely Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress.8 This was a period of massacres, devastation, and destruction, all of which is effaced. One of the things that happened during Reagan’s administration was the invasion of Grenada. You were in Boulder, Colorado, that day, October 25, 1983, and you began your talk by saying, “The latest U.S. intervention as of this morning is Grenada.”

The Kingdom of Speech
by Tom Wolfe
Published 30 Aug 2016

In 1979 a Sunday New York Times review of Chomsky’s Language and Responsibility (Paul Robinson’s “The Chomsky Problem”) began: “Judged in terms of the power, range, novelty and influence of his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important intellectual alive today.”114 In 1986, in the Thomson Reuters Arts & Humanities Citation Index, which tracks how often authors are mentioned in other authors’ work, Chomsky came in eighth…in very fast company…the first seven were Marx, Lenin, Shakespeare, Aristotle, the Bible, Plato, and Freud.115 The Prospect–Foreign Policy world thinkers poll for 2005 found Chomsky to be the number one intellectual in the world, with twice the polling numbers of the runner-up (Umberto Eco).116 In the New Statesman’s 2006 “Heroes of Our Time” listings—the heroes being mainly fighters for justice and civil rights who had been imprisoned for the Cause, such as Nelson Mandela, the Nobel Peace Prize winner (1993) who had served twenty-seven years of a life sentence for plotting the violent overthrow of the South African government, and another Nobel winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was under house arrest in Myanmar at the time—Chomsky came in seventh.117 His arrests were of the token variety that seldom caused the miscreant to miss dinner out.

Modern China: A Very Short Introduction
by Rana Mitter
Published 25 Feb 2016

Schwartz MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta MODERN JAPAN Christopher Goto-Jones MODERN LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE Roberto González Echevarría MODERN WAR Richard English MODERNISM Christopher Butler MOLECULES Philip Ball THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi MOONS David A. Rothery MORMONISM Richard Lyman Bushman MOUNTAINS Martin F. Price MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi MUSIC Nicholas Cook MYTH Robert A. Segal THE NAPOLEONIC WARS Mike Rapport NATIONALISM Steven Grosby NELSON MANDELA Elleke Boehmer NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and Michele Catanzaro THE NEW TESTAMENT Luke Timothy Johnson THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE Kyle Keefer NEWTON Robert Iliffe NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner NINETEENTH‑CENTURY BRITAIN Christopher Harvie and H.

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph
by Ryan Holiday
Published 30 Apr 2014

Which is to say, we are never completely powerless. Even in prison, deprived of nearly everything, some freedoms remain. Your mind remains your own (if you’re lucky, you have books) and you have time—lots of time. Carter did not have much power, but he understood that that was not the same thing as being powerless. Many great figures, from Nelson Mandela to Malcolm X, have come to understand this fundamental distinction. It’s how they turned prison into the workshop where they transformed themselves and the schoolhouse where they began to transform others. If an unjust prison sentence can be not only salvaged but transformative and beneficial, then for our purposes, nothing we’ll experience is likely without potential benefit.

The Coke Machine: The Dirty Truth Behind the World's Favorite Soft Drink
by Michael Blanding
Published 14 Jun 2010

—joined the call, however, Coke compromised by moving its concentrate plant supplying the bottlers to black-ruled Swaziland, and establishing a $10 million fund to support African-Americans administered by Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Des­ mond Tutu. That mollified the SCLC, even as Coke—and the apartheid govern­ ment—continued to profit from its South African bottling franchises. For years after his release from prison, Nelson Mandela denied Coke’s offers of travel aid, and even required hotels to remove Coke products from his sight during his stay. The company assiduously courted the sainted leader, putting its highest-ranking African-American executive on the case. By 1993, Coke was contributing heavily to Mandela’s campaign to be elected president of a new South Africa, and he was flying around on one of Coke’s corporate jets.

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Page 154 buyout by two handpicked bottling executives: Frundt, 163–167. Page 154 But Coke’s stalling had left eight workers dead: Gatehouse and Reyes, 12–13. Page 154 Per-caps in Latin America: Pendergrast, 367. Page 154 minutiae of foreign markets: Allen, 421–422. Page 154 “Our success”: Pendergrast, 389. Page 155 Nelson Mandela denied Coke’s offers: Lawrence Jolidon, “Divestment, Sanctions, Not Always Simple,” USA Today, June 19, 1990; Clarence Johnson, “ANC’s Oakland Headquarters,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 1990. Page 155 contributing heavily . . . corporate jets: Deborah Scroggins, “Mandela in Atlanta: Regular Folk to Coke Elite Vie to Help His Cause,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 11, 2009; Lewis Grizzard, “Respect for Mandela Went down the Drain,” Atlanta JournalConstitution, July 18, 1993.

Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder From the World of Plants
by Jane Goodall
Published 1 Apr 2013

Enlightened inner-city schools realize this and make an effort to give the children at least some experience with planting things, watching flowers bloom, growing something they can eat—even if it is only in pots in the schoolroom. But that is a lot better than nothing. Perhaps the best endorsement of the effect of a garden on the well-being of the gardener comes from that most inspirational of people, Nelson Mandela. He survived twenty-seven years in Robben Island Prison in South Africa, and this is something he wrote in his autobiography: “A garden is one of the few things in prison that one could control. Being a custodian of this patch of earth offered a small taste of freedom.” Renewal on the Reservation Nowhere is the power of gardens and gardening more apparent than in Pine Ridge, an Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Native American reservation located in South Dakota.

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James Jiler, Doing Time in the Garden: Life Lessons Through Prison Horticulture (Oakland, CA: New Village Press, 2006). Rachel Cernansky, “Prison Gardens a Growing Trend, Feeding Inmates on the Inside and Food Banks on the Outside,” TLC: How Stuff Works, accessed July 29, 2013, http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/prison-gardens-growing-trend1.htm. 12. “ ‘A garden is one of the few things’ ” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus 40th Anniversary) (New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008). 13. “ ‘Going out there and taking responsibility’ ” Louise Gray, “The Secret Life of the ‘Guerilla Gardener,’ ” Telegraph, April 15, 2009, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/5154388/The-secret-life-of-the-guerilla-gardener.html. 14.

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation
by Hannah Gadsby
Published 15 Mar 2022

It took me even longer to understand that the reason I’d taken to collecting ideas that had nothing to do with me, was because they had everything to do with me, and I must have known it, even if I didn’t understand it. 1994 1994 was the first year that Australia Day was celebrated by all states at the same time, which, to be clear, is nothing to celebrate, unless the uniform erasure of Indigenous culture is your thing. Speaking of America, the Beastie Boys gifted us with a new vocab word for the ubiquitous hairstyle in their 1994 song “Mullet Head.” Australian cinema gave us Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa. Which is not a film, just an unrelated fact tacked onto the end of a poorly constructed sentence I decided to keep in as an ode to my failing grades of the same year. In other news, I turned sixteen and there was nothing sweet about it. School continued to be an exhausting struggle.

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I know those feelings. I would go through my own cocktail of that trifecta of woe seven years later when I came out to my own family. But unlike Lilly, I didn’t have someone like my mum to help me navigate the pain of it. STOP! CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TIME! In May of 1994, the same month that Nelson Mandela was sworn in, Tasmanian gay men began turning themselves in to the police with details of their illegal sexual activity. They were drawing from a tactic pioneered by Sydney gay activists in the early 1980s as a protest against the raids on gay sex clubs—the idea was to highlight the hypocrisy of the anti-homosexual laws and try to embarrass both the federal and state governments into either enforcing or repealing the laws.

When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Published 3 Oct 2022

Years later, the senior partner David Fine, a white native South African, spoke with pride of his firm’s refusal to take clients there until free multiracial elections were held. When that finally happened in 1994, consultants at the firm clamored to be a part of South Africa’s rebirth. Yet working in South Africa was not as simple as helping Allstate sell more insurance or Philip Morris sell more cigarettes. Nelson Mandela’s political party, the African National Congress, decided that a strong central government should lead the way in transforming society, an approach that placed a heavy burden on a country with no democratic traditions and an untested legal system. It did not help that McKinsey built its reputation advising companies, not governments.

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GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Fine, a white native South African: Fine’s biography, McKinsey & Company website. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT South Africa’s rebirth: Smith, Seaman, and Witzel, History of the Firm, 339. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT Nelson Mandela’s political party: Saki Macozoma, “The ANC and the Transformation of South Africa,” Brown Journal of World Affairs (Winter 1994). GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT pro bono in the city budget office: Martin Tolchin, “City Paid $75-Million in 1969 in Fees to Private Consultants,” New York Times, July 1, 1970.

Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet
by Linda Herrera
Published 14 Apr 2014

These two men became symbols of mass movements, the detonators which touched the fiber of people and the hooks that motivated them to join, as the anti-FARC campaigner Oscar Morales wrote about in the AYM manual for cyberdissidents. Activists have long understood the power of symbols in galvanizing people to join a movement; think of what Rosa Parks meant to the civil rights movement, or Nelson Mandela to the anti-apartheid struggle. In the age of social media activism, the difference has been that an image and story can proliferate in the guise of a meme and travel across space at breakneck speed. In the breathtaking pace at which images and stories spread, there is little time for fact-checking, reflection, or bottom-up movement building.

Power Systems: Conversations on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire
by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
Published 1 Nov 2012

So, for example, the wording of the judgment suggests that if you talk to somebody they call a terrorist and urge them to turn to nonviolence, you’re guilty of giving material assistance to terrorist groups. The potential scope of that is incredible. These are executive decisions—without review, without recourse. If you look at the record of who is designated a terrorist, it’s shocking. Maybe the most extreme case is Nelson Mandela, who just got off the terrorist list about four years ago.7 The Reagan administration, which supported the apartheid regime in South Africa right to the end, condemned the African National Congress as one of “the more notorious terrorist groups” in the world.8 So Mandela is a terrorist because they say so.

Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
by Peter Morville
Published 14 May 2014

He said “place no head above your own.” Of course, to question the categories of custom, convention, rule, and order is to risk your neck. Galileo was found “gravely suspect of heresy” for confirming the Copernican re-classification of the universe, Joan of Arc was burned to death for “dressing as a man” and Nelson Mandela was categorized as a domestic terrorist by South Africa and the United States for defying the taxonomy – black, white, coloured, Indian – of apartheid. Mostly what we do isn’t quite so heavy. But it’s unwise to ask certain questions before understanding politics and culture. In all organizations, from libraries, nonprofits, and government agencies to Fortune 500s and Silicon Valley startups, visible categories are built on invisible fault lines.

The Rules Do Not Apply
by Ariel Levy
Published 14 Mar 2017

Semenya’s countrymen were appalled by the idea of a person who thought she was one thing suddenly being told that she was something else: The classification and reclassification of human beings has a haunted history in South Africa. When Semenya returned to Johannesburg, thousands of supporters waited to cheer her at O. R. Tambo International Airport. Nelson Mandela and President Jacob Zuma made a point of meeting her to offer their congratulations. People were outraged that a teenager had been examined and analyzed, like the Hottentot Venus before her, by European men who were fascinated by her exotic, anomalous appearance. The truth is, I was fascinated, too.

The European Union
by John Pinder and Simon Usherwood
Published 1 Jan 2001

James MODERN ART • David Cottington MODERN CHINA • Rana Mitter MODERN IRELAND • Senia Paseta MODERN JAPAN • Christopher Goto-Jones MODERNISM • Christopher Butler MOLECULES • Philip Ball MORMONISM • Richard Lyman Bushman MUSIC • Nicholas Cook MYTH • Robert A. Segal NATIONALISM • Steven Grosby NELSON MANDELA • Elleke Boehmer NEOLIBERALISM • Manfred Steger and Ravi Roy THE NEW TESTAMENT • Luke Timothy Johnson THE NEW TESTAMENT AS LITERATURE • Kyle Keefer NEWTON • Robert Iliffe NIETZSCHE • Michael Tanner NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN • Christopher Harvie and H. C. G. Matthew THE NORMAN CONQUEST • George Garnett NORTHERN IRELAND • Marc Mulholland NOTHING • Frank Close NUCLEAR WEAPONS • Joseph M.

I You We Them
by Dan Gretton

It would be instructive to know exactly what was said at these meetings (particularly in regard to Saro-Wiwa’s case) – and also to know which other senior figures in Shell were present at those meetings with Abacha. Some presumably who may have gone on to ‘higher things’ in their careers – both in the oil industry and in the world of politics. Appeals did come, from the Pope and Nelson Mandela and some prominent Commonwealth leaders. Mandela made one of the most tragic mistakes of his life (as he later admitted), calling for ‘quiet diplomacy’ with Nigeria, the old African National Congress ally. But the efforts that did come, came too late, and were to no avail. On the morning of 10 November 1995, in Port Harcourt prison, Ken and eight of his colleagues were hanged.

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This made me sense that there had been a co-ordinated internal company ‘line’ issued to all employees. Incidentally, it’s fascinating to look at the language both Anna and David used – making the oil company sound more like a provider of local social services rather than a profit-making business: Anna: I believe Shell was a force for good within that society, and Nelson Mandela said, after his release, that he was glad Shell stayed and that, erm, Shell had been instrumental in, erm, challenging the government on black housing, and providing black housing, which was technically illegal at the time, and they were able to get the law changed to allow Shell to provide black housing, and the standards by which Shell upheld during that period and respect for human rights and diversity, erm, I felt was a beacon in a very bleak period, where other companies were cutting and running.

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The Federation of Conservative Students were in their deeply offensive, extreme-Thatcherite heyday, aided by the far-right Monday Club – and, at an NUS conference I attended at Warwick University, many of them (including, I recall, the current Speaker of the House of Commons – who was then secretary of the Monday Club’s ‘Immigration and Repatriation Committee’ – and several other future Tory MPs and ministers), proudly sported badges reading ‘Hang Nelson Mandela’. 3 The Bishopsgate Institute in London has recently acquired the Platform archive, which is publicly accessible. I recently spent a very nostalgic couple of hours going through some of the earliest files of material from the Cambridge and Addenbrooke’s campaign days, finding notes that J. and I had written, and publicity materials typed on my old Olympia typewriter.

Why Orwell Matters
by Christopher Hitchens
Published 1 Jan 2002

Ever since the white-settler revolt in Southern Rhodesia in 1965, I had involved myself with the white and black advocates of majority rule and independence. I made several visits to the country, and interviewed many of the guerrilla leaders in exile, of whom the most impressive was Robert Mugabe. His ultimate election victory in 1980, transforming Rhodesia into Zimbabwe, was a foretaste of the later triumph of Nelson Mandela. But the abolition of racism and the end of colonial rule was succeeded by a dirty war in Matabeleland against the supporters of Mugabe’s rival Joshua Nkomo, and by the awarding of confiscated agricultural property to the party loyalists of the regime. Displaying signs of megalomania, especially after the tragic death of his wife, Mr Mugabe set up a ‘youth brigade’ that was named the 21st February Movement in honour of his own birthday.

Barefoot Into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia
by Becky Hogge , Damien Morris and Christopher Scally
Published 26 Jul 2011

On the Sunday after Thanksgiving, some of the same news outlets begin publishing selected US diplomatic cables from a corpus WikiLeaks says numbers over a quarter of a million and dates back to 1966. The first 260, published on 28 November, reveal instructions to US diplomats to gather information about UN officials which the Guardian describe as “blur[ring] the line between diplomacy and spying”, as well as historic cables about the release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and a number of cables from around the Middle East that have to do with Iran, its nuclear programme, and the 2009 Iranian elections. The days that follow feature tittle-tattle with high entertainment value (Prince Andrew acting like a tit in his role as special trade representative; US diplomats across the world making snarky comments about national leaders) mixed in with the odd serious revelation about corruption and extra-judicial killing in Pakistan, or China’s weakening diplomatic stance over North Korea.

Masters of Mankind
by Noam Chomsky
Published 1 Sep 2014

They objected to a passage recognizing “the right to self-determination, freedom, and independence, as derived from the Charter of the United Nations, of people forcibly deprived of that right, . . . particularly peoples under colonial and racist regimes and foreign occupation.” The term “colonial and racist regimes” was understood to refer to South Africa, a US ally, resisting the attacks of Nelson Mandela’s ANC, one of the world’s “more notorious terrorist groups,” as Washington determined at the same time. And “foreign occupation” was understood to refer to Washington’s Israeli client. So, not surprisingly, the US and Israel voted against the resolution, which was thereby effectively vetoed—in fact, subjected to the usual double veto: inapplicable, and vetoed from reporting and history as well, though it was the strongest and most important UN resolution on terrorism.

The Naked Eye: How the Revolution of Laser Surgery Has Unshackled the Human Eye
by Gerard Sutton and Michael Lawless
Published 15 Nov 2013

It’s a fabulous book of short verses, beautifully written, that talks about why the world is how it is and how to live your life. Even though it might seem a bit obvious in parts, the fact that it was written two and half thousand years ago makes it quite remarkable. Which living person do you most admire? Nelson Mandela, the captain of the ship that was his life. As for someone who is personally known to me, our business partner, Dr Chris Rogers is someone for whom I have enormous respect and admiration. He has been one of the most important influences in my professional life. Together with Dr Peter Cohen, Chris and I brought the first excimer laser for short-sightedness to Australia in September 1991.

The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future
by Jeff Booth
Published 14 Jan 2020

But you might miss that every leader, company, brand, and political institution uses a similar understanding to build power. In itself that is neither good nor bad. Throughout history, the greatest leaders, brands, companies, and institutions have used that influence and persuasion to make our world better. Inspirational leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, and Nelson Mandela come to mind in their efforts to make our world better and more just. And even if you do not agree with everything Elon Musk does or says, it is hard to argue that he has not mastered the ability to influence and, because of that influence, has accelerated numerous industries for the betterment of humanity.

Loving Someone With Asperger's Syndrome: Understanding and Connecting With Your Partner
by Cindy Ariel
Published 1 Mar 2012

Your personal strengths in understanding and communicating may leave you feeling that you put in much more effort than your partner. But your effort will pay off as you both learn to manage your relationship interaction and communication in each other’s world. 8 An Emotional Connection A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. —Nelson Mandela So how do you develop an emotional connection with someone with Asperger’s syndrome? Your partner’s primary struggles often have to do with forming and maintaining the one thing you may want the most. Your emotional connection may be unclear and static, or even feel nonexistent. Differences in the way you and your partner experience emotions may cause many areas of difficulty and misunderstanding.

The Rights of the People
by David K. Shipler
Published 18 Apr 2011

“Fear” was the word that one of his closest colleagues, Politburo member Aleksandr Yakovlev, used when I asked what he had been feeling at the time. I thought he might say pride or exhilaration, but no, he had feared the unknown consequences of their uncharted path. “I am surprised I am still alive,” Yakovlev declared. It got me wondering if Václav Havel felt fear as he brought Czechoslovakia out of communism, and if Nelson Mandela, beneath his inspirational assuredness, endured fear as he led South Africa from its bondage of apartheid. Perhaps if you’re not at least a little scared, if you do not go to the edge of your comfort zone and beyond, you are not doing anything worthwhile. In other circumstances, though, fear in high places can infect values, as it did following September 11.

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The State Department has typically been slow to remove certain movements from the “terrorist” list after violence has subsided. The Nepali Maoists remained designated long after they had ceased fighting and had become the largest party in a freely elected government; being on the list hampered even American diplomats who needed to deal with Nepal’s Maoist prime minister. Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress was designated because of the violence to which it finally resorted in its struggle against apartheid in South Africa, notwithstanding Mandela’s inspirational leadership in healing racial wounds. Congress could fix the problem if it were so inclined. As the Court observed, to prove a violation under the existing statute, prosecutors must show only that the trainer or adviser knew that the organization appeared on the terrorist list, “without requiring the Government to prove that plaintiffs had a specific intent to further the unlawful ends of those organizations.”

Ten Myths About Israel
by Ilan Pappe
Published 1 May 2017

The final reason offered for the Zionist reclamation of the Holy Land, as determined by the Bible, was the need of Jews around the world to find a safe haven, especially after the Holocaust. However, even if this was true, it might have been possible to find a solution that was not restricted to the biblical map and that did not dispossess the Palestinians. This position was voiced by a quite a few well-known personalities, such as Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. These commentators tried to suggest that the Palestinians should be asked to provide a safe haven for persecuted Jews alongside the native population, not in place of it. But the Zionist movement regarded such proposals as heresy. The difference between settling alongside the native people and simply displacing them was recognized by Mahatma Gandhi when he was asked by the Jewish philosopher, Martin Buber, to lend his support to the Zionist project.

On Palestine
by Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé and Frank Barat
Published 18 Mar 2015

And they do have support—external support—enough so that the Palestinian elite can live a fairly decent, often lavish, lifestyle, while the society around them collapses. FB: So would the crumbling and disappearance of the PA be a bad thing after all? NC: It depends on what would replace it. If, say, Marwan Barghouti were permitted to join the society the way, say, Nelson Mandela was finally, that could have a revitalizing effect in organizing a Palestinian society that might press for more substantial demands. But remember: they don’t have a lot of choices. In fact, go back to the beginning of the Oslo agreements, now twenty years old. There were negotiations under way, the Madrid negotiations, at which the Palestinian delegation was led by Haider Abdel-Shafi, a highly respected, left-nationalist figure in Palestine.

Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea
by Mark Kurlansky
Published 7 Apr 2008

Gandhi's campaign at the beginning of the twentieth century was nonviolent. The African National Congress, modeled on Gandhi's Indian National Congress, was also nonviolent and focused on fighting legal battles. After 1948, when an openly racist National Party won elections, a new generation of militants, led by Nelson Mandela, energized the old movement, while remaining committed to nonviolence. They went to jail for deliberately defying laws of segregation. But by 1953 some demonstrations turned into riots and the government passed laws approving such practices as whipping protesters. In 1960, to protest the requirement of black people to carry official passes, thousands showed up at once in police stations to be arrested for not having them.

Seriously Curious: The Facts and Figures That Turn Our World Upside Down
by Tom Standage
Published 27 Nov 2018

In America, the only rich country on the list, a spike in homicides propelled two more cities, Detroit and New Orleans, to join St Louis and Baltimore, which also figured on 2015’s list. Each has a rate that is around ten times the national average of 4.9 homicides per 100,000 people. South Africa is the only country outside the Americas in this ranking. Two new cities, Nelson Mandela Bay and Buffalo City, have been added to the list, mainly because data collection is improving in the country. The homicide rate in South Africa climbed by 5% last year, though other violent crime dropped. Why young Britons are committing fewer crimes Crime in Britain has been falling, as in many rich countries.

The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
by Sarah Silverman
Published 19 Apr 2010

I know that all this crap is what I should expect when I choose to build a career on shock and profanity, but since I've got this book, I'm going to try to get the message out: I'm not interested in seeing pictures of anyone's bowel movements. The two exceptions would be (1) Clive Owen's, for obvious reasons; and (2) Nelson Mandela's, because his life has just been such an incredibly rich journey. This all relates to the larger point of this chapter: That I am not an animal. Of course I am literally an animal, but I mean "I am not an animal" the way the Elephant Man meant it (though he was pretty gross). I feel I have life pretty much figured out, and I would now like to share this gift with you.

The Double Comfort Safari Club
by Alexander McCall Smith
Published 19 Apr 2010

She knew the warning signs with middle-aged men--they were like a set of traffic lights that glowed brightly in the dark. Greater attention to personal grooming? Bad sign. Pulling-in of the stomach to conceal paunch? Bad sign. Purchase of a more powerful car in bright red? Very, very bad sign. Of course, the shirt could be interpreted in various ways. It was a loose-fitting, open-neck shirt of the sort worn by Nelson Mandela. Such shirts were not tucked into one's trousers, but hung about the waist, allowing for air to circulate. They suited older men very well, those on whose physique prosperity, and particularly a diet of good Botswana beef, might have taken its toll, and they were perfect, of course, for Mr. Mandela himself, who lent them that grace and dignity that came so naturally to him.

Making the Future: The Unipolar Imperial Moment
by Noam Chomsky
Published 15 Mar 2010

When President Reagan took office in 1981, he lent support to South Africa’s domestic crimes and its murderous depredations in neighboring countries. The policies were justified in the framework of the war on terror that Reagan had declared on coming into office. In 1988, his administration designated Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress one of the world’s “more notorious terrorist groups” (Mandela himself was only removed from Washington’s “terrorist list” in 2008). South Africa was defiant, and even triumphant, with its internal enemies crushed, and enjoying solid support from the one state that mattered in the global system.

Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup
by Andrew Zimbalist
Published 13 Jan 2015

Serious corruption charges were made, and at least three persons were murdered in connection with the allegations. Many more received death threats. Mbombela is also rarely used, and both Mokaba and Mbombela may have to be demolished to avoid the crippling operating and maintenance costs. Green Point Stadium in Cape Town has yearly maintenance costs of $6.2 million. The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium is still looking for an anchor tenant and will cost an estimated $8.7 million a year to run.35 FIFA has a 420-page stadium manual that explains that a new stadium “provides many benefits for the local community” and enhances community pride. In too many cases, this is fanciful nonsense, but either the executives at FIFA are willfully ignorant or they just don't want any facts getting in the way of their PR machine.

Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth
by Margaret Atwood
Published 15 Mar 2007

One is through the courts of law, which are supposed to settle questions of the weighing and measuring and resolving of debtor/creditor issues in a fair and equitable way. Whether they always do so is of course open to a lot of questions, but in theory that is their function. The other antidote is more radical. It is told of Nelson Mandela that, after much persecution, and when he was finally freed from the prison where he’d been put by the apartheid government in South Africa, he said to himself that he had to forgive all those who had wronged him by the time he reached the prison gates or he would never be free of them. Why? Because he’d be bound to them by the chains of vengeance.

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
by Greg McKeown
Published 14 Apr 2014

It answered the question: “How will we know when we have succeeded?” Living with Intent Essential intent applies to so much more than your job description or your company’s mission statement; a true essential intent is one that guides your greater sense of purpose, and helps you chart your life’s path. For example, Nelson Mandela spent twenty-seven years in jail becoming an Essentialist. When he was thrown in jail in 1962 he had almost everything taken from him: his home, his reputation, his pride, and of course his freedom. He chose to use those twenty-seven years to focus on what was really essential and eliminate everything else—including his own resentment.

The Wordy Shipmates
by Sarah Vowell
Published 30 Sep 2008

No weeding of the white people allowed. Unless they’re Catholic. Or one of those Satan-worshipping Virginians. John Cotton is forty-six years old. He is the most respected, famous, and beloved Puritan minister in England. Getting him to bless the send-off of these relatively unimportant castaways would be like scoring Nelson Mandela to deliver the commencement address at the neighbor kid’s eighth-grade graduation. In fact, once the colonists arrive in Massachusetts they will name their settlement Boston, in honor of Cotton’s hometown. These people listening to this man are scared. There’s a boat in the harbor that just might sail them to their deaths.

The Passenger - India
by AA.VV.
Published 19 Feb 2020

Oltre a essere di gran lunga la cosa più buona del mondo, era anche incredibilmente salutare. Il Pesce racchiudeva in sé le qualità di Superman, dei broccoli, delle bacche, di Batman, dell’aloe vera, di Wonder Woman, del tè verde, di tutti i premi Nobel, di Garry Kasparov, del cavolo, di Gandhi, della spirulina, di Nelson Mandela e di qualsiasi altra cosa ti passasse per la testa. Se trovavi dei difetti nel Pesce o in uno qualunque dei modi di cucinarlo alla bengalese, come la carpa al curry di curcuma, la hilsa alla senape, i gamberi con la zucca e tanti altri, tutti cercavano di curarti, come se fossi un tumore o una malattia.

Inside British Intelligence
by Gordon Thomas

On the morning of April 11, 2002, Judge Willie Hartzenberg concluded that, having considered the evidence of 153 witnesses, thousands of pages of affidavits by those who had worked for him, and documents, Wouter Basson was not guilty on any of the charges he had faced. To this day, four metal trunks filled with classified information about Project Coast remain locked in a government vault in Pretoria. Only two keys exist that can open the vault. One of them remained in the possession of President Nelson Mandela until his retirement. He has steadfastly refused to discuss Project Coast. Who holds the keys remains unknown. 15 A New World: Adjust or Die On that March day in 1991 when he celebrated his sixty-seventh birthday with his wife, Lynda, and added another honorary degree to the growing number he had already acquired from colleges and universities, Judge William Webster knew his four-year tenure as CIA director was coming to an end.

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It had developed the plans that led to the election of pro-British leaders like Kenya’s Tom Mboya, Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika, Nysaland’s Hastings Banda, Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, and Joshua Nkomo of Rhodesia. They had all been given substantial funds to become “agents of influence.” On August 5, 1962, Nelson Mandela, by then a key member of the African National Congress, was arrested near the town of Howick in Natal. It was a time when the country was filled with foreign spies, mostly from MI6 and the CIA, but also a number of French and German intelligence officers. Some were “declared”—their presence announced to the apartheid regime, and so protected by diplomatic immunity; many more were “undeclared” and subject to prosecution if caught.

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
by Nick Bostrom
Published 26 Mar 2024

The basic idea of (FT3) is that a person’s life is more meaningful to the extent that she employs her reason to engage appropriately with the fundamental conditions of human existence—which, according to Metz, consists in the pursuit of “the good, the true, and the beautiful”. He gives us some examples of highly meaningful lives. Nelson Mandela: helping to end a fundamental injustice (“the good”). Albert Einstein: discovering fundamental facts about the universe (“the true”). Fyodor Dostoevsky: expressing fundamental themes of the human condition (“the beautiful”). Metz takes “reason” and “rationality” to refer to all facets of intelligence that are characteristically part of the human mind but are not part of the minds of nonhuman animals.

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What opportunities will utopians have for engaging with the good, the true, and the beautiful? Here the answer is slightly less obvious. If we begin with “the good”, those of you who attended yesterday’s lecture will recall that we had some discussion about purpose that is relevant to this point. I cannot recapitulate all of this today. But we can note that contributions like Nelson Mandela’s will no longer be possible in utopia, where, by postulation, there no longer exist any such grave injustices as the one which he helped overcome. There would be other ways of doing good in utopia, although many of these would not be accessible to us—only to highly optimized artificial minds that have been specifically engineered for particular functions.

The Charming Quirks of Others: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel
by Alexander McCall Smith
Published 11 Oct 2010

Goebbels and Mussolini—they could be there to illustrate the proposition at the beginning: Goebbels with his pinched, rat-like features; Mussolini with his thuggish bully’s face; both perfect illustrations of the proposition that character shines through. And from the other end of the spectrum? She wondered about that. Nelson Mandela, perhaps, would be a good candidate: his face was suffused with kindness, with a sort of joy that was unmistakable; or Mother Teresa of Calcutta, whose lined, careworn features were so transformed when she smiled. She could look severe sometimes, but that was the effect of suffering and the day-to-day toll of caring for those for whom nobody else would care.

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water
by Peter H. Gleick
Published 20 Apr 2010

CHAPTER 12 The Future of Water Making predictions is very difficult, especially about the future. —Casey Stengel, famous philosopher (and Major League Baseball legend) It is one thing to find fault with an existing system. It is another thing altogether, a more difficult task, to replace it with another approach that is better. —Nelson Mandela, speaking of water resource management1 THE WORLD’S rapidly growing dependence on expensive, commercial bottled water is a symptom of the fundamental failure to provide safe and affordable drinking water to everyone on the planet—which should be a basic human right. Those of us who live in the richer nations of the world are buying more and more bottled water because we increasingly fear or dislike our tap water, we distrust governments to regulate, monitor, and protect public water systems adequately, we can’t find public fountains anywhere anymore, we are convinced by advertisers and marketers that bottled water will make us healthier, thinner, or stronger, and we’re told that it is just another benign consumer “choice.”

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
by Clay Shirky
Published 9 Jun 2010

Grobanites for Africa, a wholly unowned subsidiary of Grobanites for Charity, is specifically dedicated to raising money for organizations fighting poverty and the effects of HIV/AIDS on that continent. This group started after Groban’s first international concert tour took him to South Africa, where he met Nelson Mandela and announced his support for charitable work on behalf of African children. A group of Grobanites, preparing the meet-and-greets for a tour stop in Atlanta, decided to adopt this cause and, true to form, organized themselves separately; they work closely with other Grobanites and with the Josh Groban Foundation, a pattern established by the original fund-raising efforts.

Thinking in Systems: A Primer
by Meadows. Donella and Diana Wright
Published 3 Dec 2008

They may seem a bit dated to you, but in editing her work I chose to keep them because their teachings are as relevant now as they were then. The early 1990s were the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union and great shifts in other socialist countries. The North American Free Trade Agreement was newly signed. Iraq’s army invaded Kuwait and then retreated, burning oil fields on the way out. Nelson Mandela was freed from prison, and South Africa’s apartheid laws were repealed. Labor leader Lech Walesa was elected president of Poland, and poet Václav Havel was elected president of Czechoslovakia. The International Panel on Climate Change issued its first assessment report, concluding that “emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases and that this will enhance the greenhouse effect and result in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.”

The Secret War Between Downloading and Uploading: Tales of the Computer as Culture Machine
by Peter Lunenfeld
Published 31 Mar 2011

Some of the better-known successes of the scenario planning process were Royal Dutch Shell’s ability to plan successfully for the expansions and contractions of global oil demands after the price shocks of the 1970s, the apartheid government of South Africa developing the capacity to imagine a peaceful turnover of power to Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress, and somewhat less globally significant, the identification and development of a U.S. “gardening lifestyle” by the retailer Smith & Hawken.20 Crafting Bespoke Futures Peter Schwartz and Jay Ogilvy, cofounders of the Global Business Network (or GBN as it is better known), are two of the better-known scenario planners.

Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World
by Ian Bremmer
Published 30 Apr 2012

* The phrase did not actually come from Obama. It was attributed to an unnamed administration official who was describing the president’s approach to Gadhafi’s Libya. As Ryan Lizza, the journalist who published the “leading from behind” comment in the New Yorker, has acknowledged, the concept was first championed years ago by Nelson Mandela. Ryan Lizza, “Leading from Behind,” New Yorker, April 27, 2011, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/04/leading-from-behind-obama-clinton.html. * In late 2011, Myanmar showed signs of trying to become a pivot state. Political concessions and a shift in rhetoric earned a visit from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World - and How Their Invention Could Make or Break the Planet
by Jane Gleeson-White
Published 14 May 2011

As such, practitioners of the rare mathematic arts can become the powerful priests of investing, thanks to their strange and obscure language, much the way the medieval church trafficked in Latin’. The antics of the share market and its mathematical wizards manipulate not only the wealth of individuals and corporations, they also dramatically shape the political life of nations. Naomi Klein gives a stark example of the impact of markets on politics. Following the election of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, ‘Every time a top party official said something that hinted that the ominous Freedom Charter might still become policy, the market responded with a shock, sending the rand into free fall. The rules were simple and crude, the electronic equivalent of monosyllabic grunts: justice—expensive, sell; status quo—good, buy.’

Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
by Johan Norberg
Published 31 Aug 2016

Not a single African country saw a peaceful transfer of power at the ballots in the 1960s and 1970s, and there was only one in the 1980s. But then suddenly, in the 1990s, twelve countries held peaceful elections. Few people thought that it would be possible to abolish apartheid peacefully, but in 1994, Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa. Since 1990, more than thirty African governments and presidents have been voted out of office. In 1959 the political sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset made the case that one important factor that contributes to democratization is increased wealth. He argued that development consolidates democracy, since it increases levels of education and literacy, reduces poverty and builds a middle class.

The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
by Ian Bremmer
Published 12 May 2010

The oil crisis of the mid-1970s and growing international criticism of apartheid forced the country toward deeper self-reliance and active state promotion of companies like Eskom (the state-owned power utility), Iscor (a steel producer), and Sasol (a developer of coal-to-fuel technology). With the end of apartheid in 1994, Nelson Mandela’s government took up the challenge of reversing decades of institutional racism and its impact on an undereducated, underemployed black majority. Knowing that South Africa’s new government needed to avoid large-scale capital flight, Mandela worked to persuade white businessmen and landowners to remain in the country and to create favorable terms to attract foreign investment.

ECOVILLAGE: 1001 ways to heal the planet
by Ecovillage 1001 Ways to Heal the Planet-Triarchy Press Ltd (2015)
Published 30 Jun 2015

What seems more trustworthy, instead, is searching the edge, coming down to the ground, meeting the people, welcoming tangible experience and the general messiness and complexity of life. My engagement with the ecovillage and intentional community movement has been inspired by all the above. When I turned 23, I went on a pilgrimage through my home country at a time when violence was at its peak. It was in 1991 and Nelson Mandela had just been released. The country was bristling with suppressed anger and frustrated hope. For a while, I had worked for various anti-apartheid organisations. Now, at last, I had the courage to walk an actual exploration of my country, to visit all those places that were taboo to a young white ‘Afrikanermeisie’: the black taxis, the townships, wilderness and night sky-solitude.

To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
by Phillip Lopate
Published 12 Feb 2013

Jung: Memories, Dreams and Reflections Kate Simon: Bronx Primitive Lewis Mumford: Sketches from Life Loren Eiseley: All the Strange Hours Thomas Merton: The Seven-Storey Mountain Colette: My Mother’s House Michel Leiris: Manhood, Rules of the Game Geoffrey Wolff: The Duke of Deception Hilary Masters: Last Stands Frank Conroy: Stop-Time Peter Handke: A Sorrow beyond Dreams John Updike: Self-Consciousness Anatole Broyard: Kafka Was the Rage, Intoxicated by My Illness V. S. Naipaul: “Prologue to an Autobiography,” The Enigma of Arrival Chester Himes: The Quality of Hurt Luis Buñuel: My Last Sigh Elia Kazan: A Life Sylvia Ashton-Warner: Teacher Nelson Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Gregor von Rezzori: The Snows of Yesteryear Recent Memoirs Philip Roth: Patrimony Vivian Gornick: Fierce Attachments Richard Rodriguez: Hunger of Memory Lucy Grealy: Autobiography of a Face Joanne Beard: The Boys of My Youth Mary Karr: The Liar’s Club Frank McCourt: Angela’s Ashes, Teacher Man Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Doris Lessing: Under My Skin, Walking in the Shade Amos Oz: A Tale of Love and Darkness Art Spiegelman: Maus Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1 and 2 David Shields: Remote Emily Fox Gordon: Mockingbird Years Lorna Sage: Bad Blood Spalding Gray: Swimming to Cambodia Jill ker-Conway: The Road from Corain Elizabeth Kendall: American Daughter J.

HWFG: Here We F**king Go
by Chris McQueer
Published 8 Nov 2018

A lot of folk will say I’m just misremembering things from my childhood, a lot of folk will say I’m just being daft. But this is the hill I will die on. I read up online about other people saying things along the same lines as my snail nightmare and there’s a phenomenon called the Mandela effect. So-called because apparently lots of people say they remember Nelson Mandela dying in jail in the 80s and even remember watching his funeral on the telly. There’s people that swear Sex and the City used to be called Sex in the City. I know a couple of people who claim Scott’s Porage Oats used to be spelled on the box as Scott’s Porridge Oats. There’s theories that say the Mandela effect is down to time travellers from the future messing about with past or that people have somehow slipped from an alternate universe into our own.

The Little Black Book of Decision Making
by Michael Nicholas
Published 21 Jun 2017

It is so natural to blame circumstances or other people when we feel bad, and this idea, that it is we ourselves who shape our inner experience, not the external environment, can be perceived as radical at first. But, it is also transformational. The world had a chance to see this from the way that Nelson Mandela left his 27 years of captivity a completely different man to the one who had entered it. Rightly branded a terrorist when he was imprisoned, he used his captivity to prepare for leadership outside, including making huge shifts in his attitude to his captors. Despite being forced to do hard labour in a quarry, and being confined to a small cell with only a rough bed on the floor and a bucket for a toilet, Robben Island was the crucible for the transformation that enabled him to become widely viewed as one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.

Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
Published 13 Jul 2020

Though the historical and social misconceptions are very clear in this population, the most important finding about SDO and RWA personality is that education has very little effect. “No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion,” wrote Nelson Mandela. “People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” It is a beautiful saying, and it captures what people want to believe about intolerance—that it is a result of “closed-mindedness and ignorance”38 and that we can teach people to think differently.

Stephen Hawking
by Leonard Mlodinow
Published 8 Sep 2020

When you called, it was she who picked up, and brought him the call (or didn’t). When you wrote him, it was she who decided whether to relay the letter, and, if important, to read it to him. The only time I ever heard of someone getting the better of her was when Stephen, while in South Africa, went to see Nelson Mandela, whom he very much admired. Mandela was around ninety then. He wasn’t at all tech savvy, and for some reason he was freaked out by the way Stephen’s computer spoke for him. He wasn’t well, either. He was in frail health. “A little past it” was how Stephen described him, which was ironic because Stephen was having a bad day, too, and almost hadn’t made it to the appointment.

McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
by Ronald Purser
Published 8 Jul 2019

Another Davos acolyte, the MIT management theorist Otto Scharmer, runs an organization called The Presencing Institute, providing cover for elites: “The root cause of our current economic and civilizational crisis is not Wall Street,” he says, “not infinite growth [and] not Big Business or Big Government.”5 No, the root cause, according to Scharmer is “between our ears.” He was one of the courtiers at the 2014 WEF, chatting about how to be mindful like Nelson Mandela.6 Following the lead of Marturano, there has been a steady procession of mindfulness teachers, Buddhist monks, neuroscientists, and celebrities spreading the postmodern prosperity gospel. At the 2014 annual meeting, the actress Goldie Hawn promoted her MindUP™ program for children, leading a session on how mindfulness training and social-emotional learning can change the world.

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by Steven Pinker
Published 24 Sep 2012

Where states are relatively weak and capricious, both fears and opportunities encourage the rise of local would-be rulers who supply a rough justice while arrogating the power to ‘tax’ for themselves and, often, a larger cause.”48 Just as the uptick in civil warfare arose from the decivilizing anarchy of decolonization, the recent decline may reflect a recivilizing process in which competent governments have begun to protect and serve their citizens rather than preying on them.49 Many African nations have traded in their Bokassa-style psychopaths for responsible democrats and, in the case of Nelson Mandela, one of history’s greatest statesmen.50 The transition required an ideological change as well, not just in the affected countries but in the wider international community. The historian Gérard Prunier has noted that in 1960s Africa, independence from colonial rule became a messianic ideal. New nations made it a priority to adopt the trappings of sovereignty, such as airlines, palaces, and nationally branded institutions.

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A damping of the desire for justice is particularly indispensable after civil conflicts, in which the institutions of justice like the police and prison system are not only fragile but may themselves have been among the main perpetrators of the harm. The prototype for reconciliation after a civil conflict is South Africa. Invoking the Xhosa concept of ubuntu or brotherhood, Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu instituted a system of restorative rather than retributive justice to heal the country after decades of violent repression and rebellion under the apartheid regime. As with the tactics of the Rights Revolutions, Mandela and Tutu’s restorative justice both sampled from and contributed to the pool of ideas for nonviolent conflict resolution.

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Fiske notes that utilitarian morality, with its goal of securing the greatest good for the greatest number, is a paradigm case of the Market Pricing model (itself a special case of the Rational-Legal mindset).199 Recall that it was the utilitarianism of Cesare Beccaria that led to a reengineering of criminal punishment away from a raw hunger for retribution and toward a calibrated policy of deterrence. Jeremy Bentham used utilitarian reasoning to undermine the rationalizations for punishing homosexuals and mistreating animals, and John Stuart Mill used it to make an early case for feminism. The national reconciliation movements of the 1990s, in which Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and other peacemakers abjured in-kind retributive justice for a cocktail of truth-telling, amnesty, and measured punishment of the most atrocious perpetrators, was another accomplishment of violence reduction via calculated proportionality. So is the policy of responding to international provocations with economic sanctions and tactics of containment rather than retaliatory strikes.

Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
by Martin Meredith
Published 1 Jan 2007

Chapter 46 - THE BLACK ORDINANCE Chapter 47 - THE SPHINX PROBLEM EPILOGUE CHAPTER NOTES SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Copyright Page ALSO BY MARTIN MEREDITH The Past Is Another Country: Rhodesia—UDI to Zimbabwe The First Dance of Freedom: Black Africa in the Postwar Era In the Name of Apartheid: South Africa in the Postwar Era Nelson Mandela: A Biography Coming to Terms: South Africa’s Search for Truth Elephant Destiny: Biography of an Endangered Species in Africa Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence I speak of Africa, and golden joys . . .

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In their quest for political rights, the black opposition tried public protests, petitions, passive resistance, boycotts and eventually sabotage, guerrilla warfare and urban insurrection. Their struggle lasted for much of the twentieth century. It was not until 1994, after years of internal strife, that South Africa’s first democratic elections were held and Nelson Mandela became president of a democratic government. CHAPTER NOTES The material for this book is based on memoirs and reminiscences; on biography and autobiography; on government reports and correspondence; and on the work of several generations of historians. These chapter notes include references to books I found to be of particular interest and value.

May We Be Forgiven
by A. M. Homes
Published 14 Jun 2012

“Son of a bitch who the hell does he think he is—Charlton Heston in the Ten Commandments. SOB…” I glance up and see Wanda in the hall chatting with Marcel, who pushes the chrome mail basket around delivering mail. Later, I ask Marcel what he knows about Wanda. “Not much,” he says. “Only that she’s the granddaughter of Nelson Mandela—or Desmond Tutu, or someone like that…” He trails off. “Born in South Africa, sent to England for school, came here, sold her memoir for three-quarters of a million dollars,” he adds as an afterthought. “Why is she working here?” “Going to law school in the fall,” he says. “And she gave away the advance, donated to charity.”

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“Not a clue,” she says. “But aren’t you the granddaughter of—?” “The Nixons’ old cleaning lady in Washington?” she says, cutting me off. “Marcel tells everyone that my mother worked for Mrs. Nixon.” “That’s weird,” I say and go no further. “What’s Marcel’s story?” “Well, he’s either the illegitimate son of Nelson Mandela who was sent to Harvard to get a divinity degree and flunked out, or he’s a kid from New York City who does stand-up comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade.” “I wonder where the truth lies,” I say, knowing I’ve been had. “It’s an open question,” she says. As the days go by, everything becomes more urgent.

The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning With the Myth of the Good Billionaire
by Tim Schwab
Published 13 Nov 2023

When they arrived, a member of the Gates Foundation staff was among the first points of contact, hosting a dinner that evening—after they first made an excursion to the Island of Gorée, a UNESCO World Heritage site. The agenda for the trip alerted the congressional staffers to how special this visit was: “President Obama visited the site in 2013; before him, high-profile figures like Pope John Paul II and Nelson Mandela did the same.” In the days ahead, the congressional travelers would tour Senegal’s countryside, visiting a rice mill and a biogas energy facility, while also taking meetings with U.S. and Senegalese government officials. Staff dined in hotels and socialized into the night with Peace Corps volunteers, according to the itinerary.

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Dambisa Moya and Dead Aid,” video of Q&A session at the University of New South Wales, May 28, 2013, YouTube, 1:00, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5utDdxveaJc. $6,000 a head: Jordan Dickinson, employee post-travel disclosure form, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ethics, September 8, 2016. “Nelson Mandela”: Jordan Dickinson, employee post-travel disclosure form. Alliance for a Green Revolution: “Scaling Seeds and Technologies Partnership Will Accelerate Progress to Reduce Hunger, Poverty in Africa,” U.S. Agency for International Development, n.d., https://2012–2017.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/scaling-seeds-and-technologies-partnership-will-accelerate-progress.

Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
by Robert M. Sapolsky
Published 1 May 2017

Even bigger surprise—stop the presses—Zimbardo criticized the study, arguing that its structure invalidated it as a chance to replicate the SPE; that guard/prisoner assignments could not have really been random; and that filming made this a TV spectacle rather than science; and asking, how can this be a model for anything when the prisoners take over the prison?73 Naturally, Reicher and Haslam disagreed with his disagreement, pointing out that prisoners have de facto taken over some prisons, such as the Maze in Northern Ireland, which the Brits filled with IRA political prisoners, and the Robben Island prison, in which Nelson Mandela spent his endless years. Zimbardo called Reicher and Haslam “scientifically irresponsible” and “fraudulent.” They pulled out all the stops by quoting Foucault: “Where there is [coercive] power there is resistance.” Let’s calm down. Amid the controversies over Milgram and the SPE, two deeply vital things are indisputable: When pressured to conform and obey, a far higher percentage of perfectly normal people than most would predict succumb and do awful things.

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In 2010 Robinson was upended in a major scandal involving his politician wife, who had committed some major financial improprieties in the name of another type of impropriety—funneling money to her nineteen-year-old lover. And history was then made when McGuinness offered, and Robinson accepted, a commiserative handshake. A guy-code sacred-value moment.*31 Something similar happened in South Africa, much of it promulgated by Nelson Mandela, a genius at appreciating sacred values.32 Mandela, while at Robben Island, had taught himself the Afrikaans language and studied Afrikaans culture—not just to literally understand what his captors were saying among themselves at the prison but to understand the people and their mind-set. At one point just before the birth of a free South Africa, Mandela entered into secret negotiations with the Afrikaans leader General Constand Viljoen.

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The Sociopath Next Door
by Martha Stout
Published 8 Feb 2005

It induces the exhausted doctor to pick up the phone for his frightened patient at three in the morning. It blows whistles against institutions when lives are endangered. It takes to the streets to protest a war. Conscience is what makes the human rights worker risk her very life. When it is combined with surpassing moral courage, it is Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi. In small and large ways, genuine conscience changes the world. Rooted in emotional connectedness, it teaches peace and opposes hatred and saves children. It keeps marriages together and cleans up rivers and feeds dogs and gives gentle replies. It makes individual lives better and increases human dignity overall.

The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
by Chris Guillebeau
Published 7 May 2012

Some people design an entire for-profit business around the social component, others shift to focus on it as they go along, and still others integrate a social project within a for-profit business. Apartheid came to an end in South Africa in 1994, ending nearly half a century of white-only rule in Africa’s most economically developed country. Nelson Mandela was elected the first black president the same year, and the country began a slow process of creating true equality for its “rainbow nation” of people. In addition to the negative association of apartheid, South Africa was known for many good things, one of which was its popular prize-winning wine.

Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking)
by Christian Rudder
Published 8 Sep 2014

Conquerors, tycoons, martyrs, saviors, even scoundrels (especially scoundrels!)—their lives are how we’ve told our larger story, how we’ve marked our progression from the banks of a couple of silty rivers to wherever we are now. From Pharaoh Narmer in BCE 3100, the first living man whose name we still know, to Steve Jobs and Nelson Mandela—the heroic framework is how people order the world. Narmer was first on an ancient list of kings. The scribes have changed, but that list has continued on. I mean, the 1960s, power to the people and so on, is the perfect example: that’s the era of Lennon and McCartney, Dylan, Hendrix, not “Guy at Party.”

Branding Your Business: Promoting Your Business, Attracting Customers and Standing Out in the Market Place
by James Hammond
Published 30 Apr 2008

You can instead create a story based on your travels, adventures, situations you have experienced, humorous times, difficult times – anything that will evoke strong emotional ties with your audiences.  Your mentors. Who has provided the source of inspiration in your life? Family members, friends, teachers or coaches, or perhaps the people you most admire in the world, past and present? Great figures such as Mother Theresa, Gandhi or Nelson Mandela have given inspiration to countless men and women who saw in them qualities they admired, and desired to have themselves, whether it be succeeding against all odds, having a disciplined mind, living with honesty and integrity at the highest level or reaching a particular level of accomplishment.

Planet of Slums
by Mike Davis
Published 1 Mar 2006

Houses are turned into virtual fortresses by surrounding them with high walls topped by glass shards, barbed wire, and heavy iron bars on all windows. 75 This "architecture of fear," as Tunde Agbola describes fortified lifestyles in Lagos, is commonplace in the Third World and some parts of the First, but it reaches a global extreme in large urban societies with the greatest socio-economic inequalities: South Africa, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States.76 In Johannesburg, even before the 73 Solomon Benjamin, "Governance, Economic Settings and Poverty in Bangalore," Environment and Urbanisation 12:1 (April 2000), p. 39. 74 Harald Leisch, "Gated Communities in Indonesia," Gties 19:5 (2002), pp. 341, 344-45. 75 Berner, Defending a Place, p. 163. 76 For a description of Lagos's fortress homes, see Agbola, Architecture of Fear, pp. 68-69. election of Nelson Mandela, big downtown businesses and affluent white residents fled the urban core for northern suburbs (Sandton, Rand burg, Rosebank, and so on) which were transformed into highsecurity analogues of American "edge cities." Within these sprawling suburban laagers with their ubiquitous gates, housing clusters, and barricaded public streets, anthropologist Andre Czegledy finds that security has become a culture of the absurd.

How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance
by Parag Khanna
Published 11 Jan 2011

Ken Saro-Wiwa, a noted Nigerian author, led peaceful mass protests with people chanting, “The flames of Shell are the flames of hell.” Amnesty International, Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth joined the Ogoni cause, but governments said nothing as the Nigerian military began a brutal crackdown. Even Nelson Mandela didn’t intervene. After a 1993 coup that brought General Sani Abacha to power, Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni were sentenced to death and hanged. Shell had already pulled its personnel out of the Delta, but its reputation was damned. Today, Moody-Stuart has a new mantra: “If it is a problem for society, it is a problem for business.”

Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
by Winifred Gallagher
Published 9 Mar 2009

Being the best you can be is a major top-down focus for saints, workaholics, and others who continually strive to improve; some may decide to listen to Prozac to help ensure that they’re functioning at 110 percent of normal. Others figure that hey, nobody’s perfect, and easily suppress comparisons between themselves and Nelson Mandela or Hillary Clinton. As Rozin says, “How much do you attend to your desire to be a certain way? How much of a disparity between your real and ideal self is there? As a focus, it may or may not be important to you, but it’s an attentional issue.” The particular ways in which you direct your focus to cope with your mixed emotions about dirt, food, body image, and ego illustrate your ability to use attention to shape and improve your experience in general.

Wanderland
by Jini Reddy
Published 29 Apr 2020

I’d spent the Friday with an environmentalist friend who works for DEFRA but who on the side secretly bangs gongs, twirls mallets round crystal bowls, and shakes rain sticks. I’d spent an entertaining afternoon round hers and the next day had ended up at a gig by Johnny Clegg, a South African musician-activist. He knew he was dying and it was to be one of his last tours. There was dancing and swaying and fist pumps and tributes to Nelson Mandela and me feeling South African and teary, even though I’ve only been to my parents’ homeland three times. So by the time I board the train, I’m feeling a little flat. Do I really want to go to landlocked Derbyshire? Once more I have that strange feeling of contraction I sometimes feel when I head north.

A Schoolmaster's War
by Jonathan Ree

He had a rooted distaste for all kinds of boasting, personal or institutional, and he used to brush off enquiries about his war by saying – with the self-deprecating good humour that seems to have charmed everyone he met – that the whole thing had been like a glorious summer holiday. The closest he came to taking pride in his war was when Margaret Thatcher denounced Nelson Mandela as a terrorist, and he was able to say, ‘But I was a terrorist too, and I got a medal from George VI.’ Another reason for his reticence was disappointment at the condition of post-war France, where the spirit of solidarity and optimism which sustained him in the Resistance gave way to recrimination, obfuscation, and vindictive partisanship.

Divided: Why We're Living in an Age of Walls
by Tim Marshall
Published 8 Mar 2018

Now such communities are being built the length and breadth of Africa, with Zambia, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria leading the way. South Africa pioneered the African gated trend. According to The Economist, as early as 2004 Johannesburg alone had 300 enclosed neighbourhoods and 20 security estates, while in 2015 Graça Machel, widow of Nelson Mandela, inaugurated the ‘parkland residence’ Steyn City in South Africa – a development four times the size of Monaco – which includes South Africa’s most expensive house. This is not limited to Africa, of course. In the USA, for example, the use of ‘fortified towns’ seems to have begun in California in the 1930s with gated enclaves such as the Rolling Hills Estate.

5 Day Weekend: Freedom to Make Your Life and Work Rich With Purpose
by Nik Halik and Garrett B. Gunderson
Published 5 Mar 2018

The ultimate quantification of success is not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate. Most people work for their money. I’m going to show you how to get your money working for you. “There is no small passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” —NELSON MANDELA CHAPTER 2 NEW MINDSET, MORE FREEDOM Retirement. That great American Dream. Work at a job you don’t even like for forty years. Scrimp and save in retirement plans. Then become economically dead and after that, as this plan is sold to us, live the “good life.” The only problem with this plan is that it doesn’t work.

99%: Mass Impoverishment and How We Can End It
by Mark Thomas
Published 7 Aug 2019

Martin Luther King may have been able to meet with the president5 but most members of the population of the United States cannot. Being a billionaire, however, is helpful in this respect: Bill Gates, for example, has met President Barack Obama of the United States,6 President Xi Jinping of China7 and President Nelson Mandela of South Africa,8 among others. The most accessible of the four levers is access to elite education – the top schools and universities in each country, from which a high proportion of the future elite are drawn. The power of this lever is surprising. In the UK, for example, 35 per cent of members of Parliament were educated in private schools, against 7 per cent of the population as a whole.9 Even more strikingly, David Cameron, the former Prime Minister of the UK, and four of his most trusted aides all attended the same school, Eton College, and more than half of the Cabinet were privately educated and attended either Oxford or Cambridge University.10 As with meeting the president, it is not impossible to attend these schools without a privileged background – they all offer scholarships – but it does require exceptional ability.

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
by Peter Frankopan
Published 14 Jun 2018

‘The heroic deeds of Boris Yeltsin and the Russian people’ had steered Russia onto a course of reform and democracy, said President Bill Clinton at a meeting with the Russian president in Vancouver in 1993. The prospect of a ‘newly productive and prosperous Russia’ was good for everyone, he noted.1 Hopeful times lay ahead too in South Africa, where fraught negotiations to end apartheid had advanced sufficiently for the Nobel committee to award the Peace Prize for 1993 to F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela for their ‘their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa’.2 The award of the prestigious prize was a moment of hope for South Africa, for Africa and for the world – even if it later emerged that many of Mandela’s closest confidants urged him not to accept the prize if it meant having to share it with a man they referred to as ‘his oppressor’.

The Trauma Chronicles
by Westaby, Stephen
Published 1 Feb 2023

It was the same honours list attended by the architect of the Iraq war. The man who mistakenly spoke of weapons of mass destruction and triggered as many deaths as Covid did in Britain. As the old song says ‘that’s the way it is…’ Postscript It always seems impossible until it’s done. Nelson Mandela Whether they were the good old days or times to be forgotten, the era of the fearless swashbuckling surgeon has passed. What’s more, the contemporary profession openly celebrates that fact. So concerned were the Royal College of Surgeons about their macho image that the President, Neil Mortensen, a friend and colleague from Oxford, commissioned an enquiry about it.

Your Life in My Hands: A Junior Doctor's Story
by Rachel Clarke
Published 14 Sep 2017

How do you answer the criticisms that I suppose might be made that if you’d cared more you would have gone outside the hospital and raised, as one might put it, merry hell? A. I would have then ended up becoming either a stroke or a heart attack, and being on the road. Q. You mean out of a job? A. Yes. Clear and simple. And I am brave – I mean, what I did takes a lot of guts to do. But I’m not Nelson Mandela … You’re always watching your back. At the end of the day, I’m a human being. I might make a mistake and that could be the end of my career, because it will be used against me. Because the kind of job we’re in, things will occasionally go wrong. It doesn’t matter how good you are, and then that will become the excuse for destroying your career.9 Francis identified frontline clinicians’ fear of speaking out as one of the most important factors that permitted the cruelties of Mid Staffs to flourish unchecked for so long.

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime
by Bradley Hope
Published 1 Nov 2022

All the stress and fear came pouring out. “I need you to come home,” she told him. 17 JAILHOUSE KIMCHI It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones. —NELSON MANDELA LOS ANGELES APRIL 2019 As the inmates shuffled to their tables for another grim dinner, Christopher Ahn spotted his quarry: coleslaw. In jail, Ahn realized that there were two culinary worlds. There were the universally despised meals served in the mess hall, where rotten ingredients are not uncommon.

Mauritius, Réunion & Seychelles Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

oCafé InternationalINTERNATIONAL€€ (Flame Grill Cafe; MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %5765 8735; Royal Rd, Trou aux Biches; mains Rs 300-850; h3-10pm Tue-Fri, noon-10pm Sat & Sun) This popular South African–run spot serves up an excellent assortment of dishes from around the world. Burgers, curries, fresh fish and sandwiches are mainstays, but the highlights are the ribs and South African steaks that are so good we would (and, on at least one occasion, did) cross the island just to have them. It's all watched over by friendly Deon (a former bodyguard for Nelson Mandela), and there's a secondhand bookshop as well. o1974ITALIAN, SEAFOOD€€ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %265 7400; Royal Rd, Trou aux Biches; mains Rs 350-600; h6.30-11pm Tue-Thu, noon-2.30pm & 6.30-11pm Fri & Sat, noon-5pm Sun) This fabulous place in warm terracotta hues is the work of Italians Antonio and Giulia.

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The gardens were named after Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, the first prime minister of independent Mauritius, and were started by Mahé de Labourdonnais in 1735 as a vegetable plot for his Mon Plaisir Château (which now contains a small exhibition of photographs). Close to the chateau is the funerary platform where Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam was cremated (his ashes were scattered on the Ganges in India). Various international dignitaries have planted trees in the surrounding gardens, including Nelson Mandela, Indira Gandhi and a host of British royals. The landscape came into its own in 1768 under the auspices of French horticulturalist Pierre Poivre. Like Kew Gardens, the gardens played a significant role in the horticultural espionage of the day. Poivre imported seeds from around the world in a bid to end France's dependence on Asian spices.

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World (Politics of Place)
by Tim Marshall
Published 10 Oct 2016

In 2012, he wrote an article for Germany’s best-selling daily newspaper, Bild, and was clearly still haunted by the possibility that, because of the financial crisis, the current generation of leaders would not nurture the postwar experiment in European trust: “For those who didn’t live through this themselves and who especially now in the crisis are asking what benefits Europe’s unity brings, the answer despite the unprecedented European period of peace lasting more than 65 years and despite the problems and difficulties we must still overcome is: peace.” 5 * * * AFRICA It always seems impossible until it is done. —Nelson Mandela Africa’s coastline? Great beaches—really, really lovely beaches—but terrible natural harbors. Rivers? Amazing rivers, but most of them are worthless for actually transporting anything, given that every few miles you go over a waterfall. These are just two in a long list of problems that helps explain why Africa isn’t technologically or politically as successful as Western Europe or North America.

Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up
by Philip N. Howard
Published 27 Apr 2015

The stories of the Zapatistas and the Arab Spring are not about nationalist fervor inspiring political revolution. They are not about religious fundamentalism. These movements were not particularly Marxist, Maoist, or populist. They had leaders, but employed comparatively flat organizations of informal teams compared with the formal and hierarchical unions and political parties behind Václav Havel, Nelson Mandela, and Lech Wałęsa. Instead, digital photos circulated widely and kept grievances alive. Periods of political history are not easy to define. They begin and end slowly. Their features are not absolute, but are prominent and distinctive. That’s how these two social movements demark the interregnum.

Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
by Lisa McKenzie
Published 14 Jan 2015

Levitas, R. (2005) The inclusive society (2nd edn), London: Macmillan. Lister, R. (1996) Charles Murray and the underclass: The developing debate commentaries, London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit in association with The Sunday Times. Lister, R. (2004) Poverty, Cambridge: Polity. Littlejohn, R. (2014) ‘Duggan was a gangster not Nelson Mandela’, Mail Online, 10 January (http://dailym.ai/1tvagLR). MacDonald, R., Shildrick, T., Webster, C. and Simpson, D. (2005) ‘Growing up in poor neighbourhoods: the significance of class and place in the extended transitions of “socially excluded” young adults’, Sociology, vol 39, no 5, December, pp 873-91.

QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance (Qi: Book of General Ignorance)
by John Lloyd and John Mitchinson
Published 28 Sep 2015

Decades after it was written, the name and characters from his 1901 play Quality Street were used in the product’s advertising and packaging. Most Barrie scholars now think he got the idea for the name ‘Wendy’ from five-year-old Margaret Henley, who tried to call him ‘friendy’ but mispronounced it ‘fwendy’. Margaret was the daughter of the one-legged poet William Ernest Henley, who wrote Nelson Mandela’s favourite poem ‘Invictus’. The character of Long John Silver in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island was based on Henley – so Long John Silver was Wendy Darling’s father. Peter Pan was named after Pan, the Greek god who was abandoned by his mother as a child. The title of the first Peter Pan book (1902) was initially going to be The Boy Who Hated Mothers, and in the play Barrie intended Peter to be ‘a demon boy, the villain of the story’.

The Internet Is Not the Answer
by Andrew Keen
Published 5 Jan 2015

Peter’s Basilica.32 No wonder the “selfie”—defined as “a photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically one taken with a smartphone or webcam and uploaded to a social media site”—was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year in 2013, its use increasing by 17,000% over the year.33 And no wonder that almost 50% of the photos taken on Instagram in the United Kingdom by 14–21-year-olds are selfies, many of whom use this medium to reify their existence.34 “All too often, selfies involve shooting yourself in the foot,” Gautam Malkani noted about Barack Obama and David Cameron’s selfie debacle at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service in December 2013. But the unfortunate truth is that we are all—from Barack Obama to James Franco to the other 150 million selfie addicts on Kevin Systrom’s social network—collectively shooting ourselves in more than just our feet with our battery of Hello this is me snaps. These “Advertisements for Myself” are actually embarrassing commercials both for ourselves and for our species.

Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?
by Thomas Frank
Published 15 Mar 2016

Anyone inquiring how an obscenity like this came to pass—how it is that the home of the free outstripped what we used to call “captive nations” as well as countries philosophically dedicated to wholesale imprisonment like apartheid South Africa—anyone looking into these things soon realizes that this cannot be laid simply and neatly at the doorstep of the Republican Party and Those Awful Wingers. It is true that the Republican Richard Nixon started the war on drugs, and that the Republican Ronald Reagan escalated it. But the Democrat Bill Clinton—the buddy of Bono and Nelson Mandela, the man repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize—easily bested both of these Republicans as well as all other presidents in his zeal to incarcerate.8 Alexander writes as follows of Clinton’s 1994 crime law: Far from resisting the emergence of the new caste system, Clinton escalated the drug war beyond what conservatives had imagined possible a decade earlier.

A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income
by Guy Standing
Published 3 May 2017

Springing into prominence in the US in the late 1960s, this term was briefly adopted, though later dropped, by Democrat Senator George McGovern during his unsuccessful presidential campaign. It remains an attractive name, suggesting a link between ‘democracy’ and ‘grants’. Freedom grant. This was the name proposed by the writer for a basic income grant (BIG) advocated in South Africa after Nelson Mandela became the country’s first post-apartheid president.11 Sadly, the International Monetary Fund and the then South African finance minister opposed the BIG, since when inequality and chronic insecurity have persisted and grown. Stabilization grant. This term, another proposed by the writer, refers to a form of basic income, or a component of it, that would vary with the economic cycle, rising in recessions to encourage spending and falling in better times.

About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks
by David Rooney
Published 16 Aug 2021

The British invaded in 1795, in a move against the French, with whom they were then at war; gave it back in 1803; then re-invaded in 1806. By then vast numbers of indigenous African people had been killed, dispossessed or forced away. Today, Cape Town’s Table Bay is most famous for the Robben Island prison that held Nelson Mandela from 1964 for eighteen years of his twenty-seven-year imprisonment. When the British government seized control of the colony in 1806, Table Bay was one of the most strategically significant places on Earth, because the ships of every empire stopped there for supplies during their long voyages around Africa, trading the riches of imperial expansion.

Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power
by Rose Hackman
Published 27 Mar 2023

“Since all the initial stories are by men, the breaking of silence by women completely reimagines how you think about this history.” Armah’s thinking around the overlooked centrality of emotions and the stories of women continued to take form when, in 1997, she headed to South Africa for work. There, she was set to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, organized under Nelson Mandela’s government, which aimed to bring the country forward after the end of the half-century-long apartheid regime. The unprecedented national restorative justice effort set up to move the country forward peacefully gave space to white perpetrators of atrocities and encouraged them to acknowledge crimes in exchange for possible amnesty alongside the testimonies of their Black victims of abuse.

The Enablers: How the West Supports Kleptocrats and Corruption - Endangering Our Democracy
by Frank Vogl
Published 14 Jul 2021

The brilliance of that time was heightened even further when news came on the final day of the Davos meeting that South African president F. W. de Klerk had announced that the African National Congress would no longer be banned and that arrangements would be made to set the Congress’s leader, Nelson Mandela, free from the Robben Island prison, where he had spent twenty-seven years. The apartheid era, like the communist era in Eastern Europe, was ending. FAST-FORWARD THIRTY YEARS The euphoria that swept across Eastern and Central Europe in late 1989/early 1990 is a distant memory. The hopes of tens of millions of people liberated from communism have been dashed.

The Capitalist Manifesto
by Johan Norberg
Published 14 Jun 2023

Now instead it is said that the country never introduced real socialism but some form of corrupt state capitalism that only appropriated the socialist brand, and it is intellectually dishonest to use that failure as evidence that socialism is not working, especially as real socialism right now is being developed elsewhere, in the hopeful country X, which you should look at instead. (At which point the foreign admirers move on to the next experiment and the process begins again from step 1.) To witness the damage a single person can inflict on a country, one can head to South Africa. Following the liberation from apartheid, Nelson Mandela, as president from 1994, created a climate of reconciliation while democratizing the country and liberalizing the economy. Under Mandela and his successor, Thabo Mbeki, inflation was tamed, government debt was halved and the growth rate reached 5 per cent. The outside world thought South Africa could be the next economic miracle.

Pauline Frommer's London: Spend Less, See More
by Jason Cochran
Published 5 Feb 2007

But by 1905, its fortunes reversed when it was elevated to a cathedral, which now serves 2.5 million across southern London, and in 2000, it was given a lavish cleaning—so much of one that it’s hard to discern the true age and sordid past of the place. The cathedral’s entrance is to the left. Go in, go straight across the sanctuary, through the glass doors opposite, up a short flight of stairs, and turn right to the end of the glass-roofed corridor, which traces the line of an alley that was called @ Lancelot’s Link Nelson Mandela opened this building in 2001. Have a look at the display here, which preserves surprising discoveries made in this small area during a 1999 renovation. Look down into the well on the far right, and you’ll see the original paving stones from the Roman road that cut through this space in the 1st century.

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Find more events at London’s city website (www.london.gov.uk/gla/events), at Visit London’s site (www.visitlondon.com), and in Time Out magazine (www.timeout.com/london). The regular events below are by no means the full list. There are always short-run, one-off events popping up unexpectedly throughout the year, such as the installation of a temporary lawn across Trafalgar Square to promote London parks, open-air rock concerts like the one honoring Nelson Mandela’s 90th birthday, and wacky art installations like the “Telectroscope” that offered live, life-size views of Brooklyn in its lens in 2008. Time Out and the commercial weblog Londonist (www.londonist.com) are good places to find advance word. January or Early February London International Mime Festival Chinese New Year Festival (% 020/ (% 020/7637-5661; www.mimefest. 7851-6686; www.chinatownchinese. co.uk): Not just for silent clowns, but co.uk): In conjunction with the Chinese also for funky puppets and Blue Man–style New Year, the streets around Leicester Square come alive with dragon and lion dances, children’s parades, performances, screenings, and fireworks displays.

Cuba: An American History
by Ada Ferrer
Published 6 Sep 2021

Another war between the MPLA and UNITA killed thousands between 1998 and 2002. War’s destructive power casts a long shadow. So does colonialism’s. Cuba’s victory over the South African army has meant that the Cuban role in Angola has been viewed in postapartheid South Africa in emphatically positive terms. Years later, Nelson Mandela—famed antiapartheid fighter turned president and Nobel Peace Prize winner—acknowledged Cuba’s critical role in Southern Africa. When he visited the island in 1991, he spoke at the annual July 26 rally commemorating Castro’s assault on the Moncada barracks. Referring to Cuba’s victory over South Africa in the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, Mandela explained, “The decisive defeat of the aggressive apartheid forces destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the white oppressor… [and it] served as an inspiration to the struggling people of South Africa….

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A cousin who served in Angola gave me a porcupine spine he had brought back from the war as a gift on my first visit back to Cuba in 1990. 25. Isaac Saney, “African Stalingrad: The Cuban Revolution, Internationalism, and the End of Apartheid,” Latin American Perspectives 33, no. 5 (2006): 81–117; Nelson Mandela speech in Havana on July 26, 1991, in http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1991/19910726-1.html; Gleijeses, Visions, 338–40, 379. 26. Ben Rhodes, The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House (New York: Random House, 2018), 261, 265; Interview with Ben Rhodes, December 18, 2020.

Winds of Change
by Peter Hennessy
Published 27 Aug 2019

Anthony Sampson, for example, wrote in his memoir, The Anatomist, that Macmillan ‘had a simplified view of Africa: it was, the Prime Minister said, like a lazy hippo which had suddenly been prodded’.29 But, as Sampson recognized, the ‘Wind of Change’ speech had had a tonic effect on some of Africa’s future leaders. Nelson Mandela, for example, thought the speech ‘terrific’ and, ‘[n]early forty years later Mandela, speaking in Westminster Hall, would recall Macmillan’s courage in confronting “a stubborn and race-blind white oligarchy”’. The 1960 speech, Sampson wrote, ‘had long repercussions in black Africa’.30 More immediately for Macmillan, Central Africa was the most explosive patch in 1961 – how to let the wind of change blow while preserving something multiracial in a new settlement.

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We are the only people who, with all the hesitations and failures that there have been, are genuinely resolved on turning, to use Harold Macmillan’s phrase, an empire into a commonwealth and a commonwealth into a family.102 When Macleod expressed that aspiration he already knew full well that a large-scale ‘family’ row was underway about British policy towards apartheid South Africa, which had left the Commonwealth the previous March after Macmillan had striven mightily but failed to persuade the South African premier, Hendrik Verwoerd, to make ‘the smallest move towards an understanding of the views of his Commonwealth colleagues’.103 The South African question was to poison intra-Commonwealth relations for a generation until Nelson Mandela was freed from prison in 1990 and the apartheid regime began to dismantle itself. At home, the question of ‘colour’, as it was expressed in the early 1960s, began to rise up the barometer of political sensitivity when Commonwealth immigration continued to increase and anxieties, aroused during the Notting Hill and Nottingham riots of 1958, about the capacity and willingness of the host communities to absorb the newcomers in areas of particular concentration, showed no signs of abating.

The 100 Best Vacations to Enrich Your Life
by Pam Grout
Published 14 May 2007

What the 24,300-ton vessel does offer is an 8,000-volume library, nine classrooms, a computer lab, a student union, a campus bookstore, a swimming pool, a fitness center, a spa, and a health clinic. But the best perks are the interport lecturers. Over the years, students at sea have been treated to talks by Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi, Corazon Aquino, Mother Teresa, and Fidel Castro, who one year met with students for eight entire hours. Desmond Tutu, a frequent interport lecturer and big fan of the floating campus for global studies, even signed on to be a guest lecturer for the entire spring semester voyage of 2007.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
Published 1 Jan 2005

It is true, for instance, that you can take the Race IAT or the Career IAT as many times as you want and try as hard as you can to respond faster to the more problematic categories, and it won’t make a whit of difference. But, believe it or not, if, before you take the IAT, I were to ask you to look over a series of pictures or articles about people like Martin Luther King or Nelson Mandela or Colin Powell, your reaction time would change. Suddenly it won’t seem so hard to associate positive things with black people. “I had a student who used to take the IAT every day,” Banaji says. “It was the first thing he did, and his idea was just to let the data gather as he went. Then this one day, he got a positive association with blacks.

Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It
by Gabriel Wyner
Published 4 Aug 2014

Principle 5: Rewrite the Past Timing Is Everything: The End of Forgetting Do This Now: Learn to Use a Spaced Repetition System 3: Sound Play Train Your Ears, Rewire Your Brain Train Your Mouth, Get the Girl Train Your Eyes, See the Patterns Do This Now: Learn Your Language’s Sound System 4: Word Play and the Symphony of a Word Where to Begin: We Don’t Talk Much About Apricots Games with Words The Gender of a Turnip Do This Now: Learn Your First 625 Words, Music and All 5: Sentence Play The Power of Input: Your Language Machine Simplify, Simplify: Turning Mountains into Molehills Story Time: Making Patterns Memorable On Arnold Schwarzenegger and Exploding Dogs: Mnemonics for Grammar The Power of Output: Your Custom Language Class Do This Now: Learn Your First Sentences 6: The Language Game Setting Goals: Your Custom Vocabulary Words About Words Reading for Pleasure and Profit Listening Comprehension for Couch Potatoes Speech and the Game of Taboo Do This Now: Explore Your Language 7: Epilogue: The Benefits and Pleasures of Learning a Language The Toolbox The Gallery: A Guide to the Flash Cards That Will Teach You Your Language The Art of Flash Cards The First Gallery: Do-It-Yourself Pronunciation Trainers The Second Gallery: Your First Words The Third Gallery: Using and Learning Your First Sentences The Fourth Gallery: One Last Set of Vocabulary Cards A Glossary of Terms and Tools Appendices Appendix 1: Specific Language Resources Appendix 2: Language Difficulty Estimates Appendix 3: Spaced Repetition System Resources Appendix 4: The International Phonetic Alphabet Decoder Appendix 5: Your First 625 Words Appendix 6: How to Use This Book with Your Classroom Language Course One Last Note (About Technology) Notes Acknowledgments Index CHAPTER 1 Introduction: Stab, Stab, Stab If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. —Nelson Mandela Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages. —Dave Barry Language learning is a sport. I say this as someone who is in no way qualified to speak about sports; I joined the fencing team in high school in order to get out of gym class.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
by Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson
Published 6 May 2007

In South Africa, the end of apartheid could easily have left a legacy of self-justifying rage on the part of the whites who supported the status quo and the privileges it conferred on them, and of self-justified fury on the part of the blacks who had been its victims. It took the courage of a white man, Frederik de Klerk, and a black man, Nelson Mandela, to avert the bloodbath that has followed in the wake of most revolutions, and to create the conditions that made it possible for their country to move forward as a democracy. De Klerk, who had been elected president in 1989, knew that a violent revolution was all but inevitable. The fight against apartheid was escalating; sanctions imposed by other countries were having a significant impact on the nation's economy; supporters of the banned African National Congress were becoming increasingly violent, killing and torturing people whom they believed were collaborating with the white regime.

Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future
by Andrew Heintzman , Evan Solomon and Eric Schlosser
Published 2 Feb 2009

In 1959, the year I was born, people of colour in much of the United States were forbidden to use the same public toilets as white people or to sleep at the same hotels. The Soviet Union oppressed its own citizens and ruled half of Europe. Blacks in South Africa were treated like serfs. In 1959, if you’d predicted that Nelson Mandela would one day be elected president of a free, multiracial South Africa, people would have said you were out of your mind. In my lifetime, I’ve seen segregation, the Berlin Wall, and apartheid vanish from the Earth. So I refuse to believe that the way we feed ourselves today must endure forever.

I Never Knew That About London
by Christopher Winn
Published 3 Oct 2007

Since the law courts moved to the Strand, Westminster Hall has been used for mainly ceremonial occasions. The first person to lie in state here was William Gladstone in 1898, then George VI in 1952, Queen Mary in 1953, Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, in 2002. In 1996 Nelson Mandela addressed both Houses of Parliament in the Hall. * * * The Exchequer Westminster Hall was for many years the home of the ‘exchequer’, or treasury. The term exchequer derived from the chequered table, based on the abacus and resembling a chess board, on which counters representing different values were placed and used to calculate expenditure and receipts.

E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis
Published 25 May 2009

They are individuals who can venture to that Other Side, before returning back to ordinary life, here with us on Earth. As a result, we’ll try to glimpse, in the expression on their face, or in the potent equations they’ve plucked and brought back down, what things are like up there, in that higher realm, which so many of us believe in, but know we’ll never get to visit directly. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela have been considered such prophets, carrying down a vision of racial harmony, their words spreading afterward with a power that came from the feeling that they had originated from that higher source. In post–World War I Europe, Einstein’s findings were received with the veneration King’s or Mandela’s words would be granted later.

The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion
by Virginia Postrel
Published 5 Nov 2013

But if you understand his appeal as glamour, in which the audience supplies the meaning, then it’s not surprising that Obama means different things to different people and thus, especially in his first term, often had difficulty rallying his supporters in favor of a given course of action. Glamour is an asset in a campaign, but charisma is more useful once you’re elected. A few particularly gifted leaders—Ronald Reagan, Nelson Mandela, and, outside of politics, Steve Jobs—have had both. GLAMOUR CHARISMA Barack Obama Bill Clinton Che Castro Thomas Jefferson Andrew Jackson Jackie Kennedy Eleanor Roosevelt Michael Jordan Earvin “Magic” Johnson John Lennon Janice Joplin Leonardo Raphael Spock Kirk Tupac Shakur Snoop Dogg Joan of Arc dead Joan of Arc alive Early Princess Diana Late Princess Diana It’s rare for a charismatic leader to be as self-contained as Reagan or Mandela, which is one reason glamour rarely accompanies charisma.

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco
Published 7 Apr 2014

The more concessions one makes to privilege and power, the more it diminishes one’s capacity to fight for justice and truth. This understanding should have been heeded by Havel, who as president served systems of state power and supported the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Havel’s positions as a politician tarnished all he had fought for as an outsider and a dissident. The same can be said of Nelson Mandela, who, once in office, bowed to the demands of foreign investors and international banks and abandoned the African National Congress’s thirty-five-year-old socialist economic policy, known as the Freedom Charter, which called for the nationalization of mines, banks, and monopoly industries. 28.

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
by Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
Published 1 Jun 2016

Given that across a 100-year lifespan there are 873,000 hours available and if, as is often claimed, a specialist expertise takes 10,000 hours to acquire, then mastery in more than one field is neither daunting nor impossible. Valuing knowledge Learning is an important part of life and has a value way beyond the income it can generate. Nelson Mandela was right when he said ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’, and he wasn’t talking about GDP or income. There is a lot of sense in choosing to learn what one is passionate about and interested in. However, for most people, income matters – and it matters even more over the course of a 100-year life.

Pirates and Emperors, Old and New
by Noam Chomsky
Published 7 Apr 2015

Their terrorist acts inside Russia were serious enough to have brought a Russia–Pakistan war ominously close (John Cooley, Global Dialogue 2.4, Autumn 2000). 85. Barry Munslow and Phil O’Keefe, Third World Quarterly, January 1984. During the Reagan years, South African depredations in the neighboring countries left 1.5 million killed and caused over $60 billion in damage, while Washington continued to support South Africa and condemned Nelson Mandela’s ANC as one of the “more notorious terrorist groups” in the world. Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass, Terror and Taboo (Routledge, 1996), 12. 1980–88 record, Merle Bowen, Fletcher Forum, Winter 1991. On expansion of U.S. trade with South Africa after Congress authorized sanctions in 1985 (overriding Reagan’s veto), see Gay McDougall, Richard Knight, in Robert Edgar, ed., Sanctioning Apartheid (Africa World Press, 1990). 86.

The Ghost
by Robert Harris
Published 22 Oct 2007

He opened a door and I followed him into a room straight out of Rick’s London club: dark green wallpaper, floor-to-ceiling books, library steps, overstuffed brown leather furniture, a big brass lectern in the shape of an eagle, a Roman bust, a faint odor of cigars. One wall was devoted to memorabilia: citations, prizes, honorary degrees, and a lot of photographs. I took in Emmett with Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Emmett with Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. I’d tell you the names of the others if I knew who they were. A German chancellor. A French president. There was also a picture of him with Lang, a grin-and-grip at what seemed to be a cocktail party. He saw me looking. “The wall of ego,” he said. “We all have them. Think of it as the equivalent of the orthodontist’s fish tank.

Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy
by Dani Rodrik
Published 8 Oct 2017

In view of the international sanctions and the economic decline they faced, the elites would have been better off under democracy—but only provided that moderate future taxation could be assured. In the absence of such guarantees, it remained in the elites’ interest to keep suppressing the black majority even at substantial economic cost to themselves and the country. Nelson Mandela was keenly aware of the problem: “Especially in the first few years of the democratic government,” he said in 1991, “we may have to do something to show that the system has got an inbuilt mechanism which makes it impossible for one group to suppress the other.”6 In the run-up to the democratic transition of 1994, South Africa’s federal institutions were specifically designed to prevent the expropriation of the rich white minority by the poor black majority.

What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
by Danielle Ofri
Published 1 Feb 2017

The one skill area that did not improve, interestingly, was the same for both doctors and patients: time management skills. Maybe it’s time to admit we just need longer visits! Research continues to bear out that communication can be broken down into discrete skills that can be taught and retained,5 that one needn’t be born a Nelson Mandela or Winston Churchill to do a decent job communicating. Just as doctors can be taught how to suture, how to run a code, how to hear a heart murmur, and how to brake a gurney without severing their toes, they can also be taught how to communicate better. One area that is rightfully getting attention is teaching how to break bad news.

The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Published 14 May 2014

In 1941 Franklin Roosevelt had worried that it might not be possible to shield “the great flame of democracy from the blackout of barbarism,” a fear repeated during the cold war. But democracy had eventually won. The great heroes of the late twentieth century were heroes of democracy: Think of Nelson Mandela leading the peaceful transition to majority rule in South Africa or Václav Havel constructing the velvet revolution in the Czech Republic. In the introduction to Democracy in America Tocqueville argued that “the effort to halt democracy appears as a fight against God himself.”5 Substitute the word “history” for “God” and by 2000 that was a statement of conventional wisdom.

How to Be the Startup Hero: A Guide and Textbook for Entrepreneurs and Aspiring Entrepreneurs
by Tim Draper
Published 18 Dec 2017

George Washington Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. John F. Kennedy If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary. Malcolm X I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free so other people would be also free. Rosa Parks Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will. Nelson Mandela Some people get rich first. Deng Xiaoping Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. Ronald Reagan Freedom Matters Most The more I live, the more I travel, and the more people I meet, the more I realize that freedom matters most.

Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America
by Sarah Kendzior
Published 6 Apr 2020

The horror of the present is realizing that many adults had no sense of what was really going on during my 1980s childhood either—and that those who did know, and lived to tell the tale, are the ones who stole the future. 3 The 1990s: Elite Exploits of the New World Order The early 1990s ushered in an anomalous period of accountability. This was the era after the Iran-Contra criminals were sentenced but before future Trump attorney general William Barr helped pardon them; when the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union soon followed; when dissidents like Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, and Václav Havel went from prisons to presidencies; when America had a war and a recession and both of them came to a seemingly definitive end. This was an actual era of hope and change, and it did not last long. At the time, I was too young to appreciate the novelty of this reversal of fortune—or to appreciate that political and economic fortunes could be reversed at all.

China's Good War
by Rana Mitter

It wants its presence in the region and the world to be regarded as based on more than pure self-interested realism. Of course, it is possible for a justice claim on one’s own behalf to be grounded in a broader moral footing (as was the case with the struggles of Martin Luther King, Jr., for civil rights and Nelson Mandela against apartheid), but China’s argument for justice relating to its wartime record has not yet found wide support. That deficiency has stimulated a set of discourses that seek to provide an interpretation of China’s experiences during World War II that compares them to the recognized global, largely European, understanding of the war.

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism
by John Elkington
Published 6 Apr 2020

The Green Swan Scenario takes us in a very different direction, though it is eminently possible to imagine a future that combines elements of both scenarios. Meanwhile, we have no real choice but to dive in. Throughout the process of producing Green Swans, we had in mind a saying often attributed to Nelson Mandela, but with roots stretching back to Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”28 CHAPTER 1 MIRACLES ON DEMAND Making the Impossible Inevitable “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” science fiction author Arthur C.

So Me
by Graham Norton
Published 2 Jan 2005

After the show we very rarely hear about any fallout, but I did once bump into the sister of a woman who had told a story on the show, and she told me about its tragic consequences. I remember meeting her because it was such an extraordinary day. I was supposed to be introducing some acts at a big concert in Trafalgar Square for Nelson Mandela. I was backstage with Richard E. Grant, chatting about nothing in particular, when we noticed a huddled group heading for a Portakabin dressing room. ‘There’s Nelson,’ declared Richard. ‘Follow me!’ I trotted behind him towards the little cabin that contained the world’s favourite leader. A word with the large South African lady with the clipboard outside and suddenly we were escorted in.

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
by Madhumita Murgia
Published 20 Mar 2024

In Nairobi and Kampala, spherical Huawei cameras perch like glossy black lollipops on lamp-posts lining busy roads. Unblinking eyes observe train commuters in Berlin’s Südkreuz terminal, and Buenos Aires’s Retiro station. Cameras watch children in public schools in Delhi and Hong Kong. They stand guard on Johannesburg’s Vilakazi Street, where Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu grew up. In China, the police force holds the world’s biggest national database of over a billion faces, and citizens are subject to mass identification.15 On 26 January 2021, the day India celebrated its seventieth Republic Day, a ragtag bunch of patriots came riding in trickles and bursts from the edges of New Delhi into the heart of the city.

Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
by Laurie Garrett
Published 15 Feb 2000

The new leader changed his own name from Joseph to Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa za Banga, or “the all-conquering warrior who triumphs over all obstacles.” The nationalistic veneer fooled many pan-Africanists, who thought Mobutu the equal of such contemporaries on the continent as Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana, Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere. Prophetically, on his cancer deathbed in 1961, the Algerian intellectual Franz Fanon warned, “Our mistake is to have believed that the [Western] enemy had lost his combativeness and his harmfulness. If Lumumba is in the way, Lumumba disappears….

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Uganda and Rwanda had switched their allegiances, supporting Tutsi dissidents that formerly were part of the Kabila alliance. Zimbabwe sent military “advisers” to Kinshasa. Namibia flew in twenty-one tons of military equipment, also backing Kabila. Water and electricity for Kinshasa were cut off by rebels. From South Africa President Nelson Mandela pleaded for a peaceful resolution. He was ignored. By September 1998 troops from at least five African countries were on the ground in DROC, fighting alongside either the Kabila government’s soldiers or rebel forces. The entire east of the country was under rebel/Rwanda/Uganda control. By October it seemed that, thanks to foreign troops, Kabila had driven the rebels back to the far east and maintained control.

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We are fortunate to have very qualified help in South Africa.” Prior to 1994 South Africa was cut off from its African neighbors, who opposed the nation’s apartheid policies, which separated the races and gave the white minority population virtually absolute control over every facet of the society. But with the election of Nelson Mandela to the presidency and elimination of all apartheid policies South Africa has become the darling of the continent, and the number one destination for young fortune seekers from every corner of Africa. “The old borders are colonial,” Dr. Neil Cameron, secretary-general of communicable diseases for South Africa, explained.

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 31 Dec 2009

A Christian parent at the close of the first millennium AD might look into the eyes of a newborn for clues as to whether the devil lurked somewhere deep inside, ready to possess them. Today, at the beginning of the third millennium AD, a parent is more likely to scrutinize a child’s inner being for signs of his or her inherent good nature and sociability. That’s not to say that parents expect their children to grow up to be a Mahatma Gandhi or a Nelson Mandela or a Martin Luther King, Jr. Only that they expect them to be more like them than, say, an Adolf Hitler or a Joseph Stalin. All of which points to the fact that while most human beings are neither saints nor monsters, we expect pro-social behavior rather than antisocial behavior of one another.

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Freedom is never a solitary affair, as the rationalists contend—John Wayne alone in the frontier—but a deeply communal experience. We are only really free when we come to trust one another and allow ourselves to be open to sharing each other’s struggle to be and flourish. Trust, in turn, opens up the possibility of extending empathetic consciousness into new more intimate domains. Nelson Mandela is a good case study of the embodied sense of freedom. In the more than twenty-three years he was imprisoned, often in solitary confinement, he chose to befriend his jailers. He reached out to them as unique individuals with their own personal struggles. Rather than attempting to be invulnerable and stoic, he chose to be humane.

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
by Ha-Joon Chang
Published 26 Dec 2007

With no tariffs against American imports, disappearing subsidies and shrivelling government procurement programmes, compounded by a flood of lawsuits, Soares Tecnologia was in a dire state when Paulo – may his soul rest in peace – had a massive stroke and died in 2035. As a result, Luiz was forced to quit his MBA course at the Singapore campus of INSEAD, the French business school (which, by that time, was considered to be better than the original campus in Fontainebleau), break up with Miriam, his half-Xhosa/half-Uzbek girlfriend (a distant cousin of Nelson Mandela on her Xhosa side), and return to Brazil to take over the family firm at the age of 27. Things have not improved much since Luiz took over. True, he has successfully fought off several patent suits. But if he loses even one of the three that are still pending (none of them is looking hopeful), he will face ruin.

Fodor's Dordogne & the Best of Southwest France With Paris
by Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.
Published 18 Apr 2011

CAPTIVATED BY CARLA Lucky for Sarkozy his best asset may be his popular wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy—the supermodel-turned-singer-turned–demure First Dame, whose every move is slavishly tracked by French magazines. The former bad girl has made headlines as much for her turns in the spotlight (performing for Nelson Mandela; signing on for a part in a Woody Allen film) as for her philanthropy (she’s an anti-AIDS ambassador; she has her own charitable foundation). The Italian-born Carla B holds considerable influence over her lovesick husband, and isn’t afraid to wield it. SIZING UP Despite a diet dripping in butter and fat, the French are among the world’s thinnest people, with one of the world’s longest life expectancies to boot.

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity
by Robert Lane Greene
Published 8 Mar 2011

South Africa’s Constitutional Court, in Pretoria, abounds in symbolism. In an unhappier, earlier era, it was a detention facility. It has the distinction of holding, at different times, two of the world’s most famously righteous freedom fighters: Mahatma Gandhi was held there by British authorities in the early twentieth century, and Nelson Mandela would be locked up there half a century later. Today, South Africa’s Constitutional Court is a symbol of reconciliation and justice. Some of the old brickwork has been kept as a reminder of what the building once was. But the rest is new. The ceiling is designed to evoke an outdoor setting beneath trees, making semiliteral a traditional African concept: “justice under the tree” is dispensed by elders in traditional communal gatherings.

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner
Published 14 Sep 2015

But if you are constantly thinking the question is “Will he get his visa?” your mental playing field is tilted in one direction and you may unwittingly slide into confirmation bias: “This is South Africa! Black government officials suffered under apartheid. Of course they will give a visa to Tibet’s own Nelson Mandela.” To check that tendency, turn the question on its head and ask, “Will the South African government deny the Dalai Lama for six months?” That tiny wording change encourages you to lean in the opposite direction and look for reasons why it would deny the visa—a desire not to anger its biggest trading partner being a rather big one.

Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity
by Ha-Joon Chang
Published 4 Jul 2007

With no tariffs against American imports, disappearing subsidies and shrivelling government procurement programmes, compounded by a flood of lawsuits, Soares Tecnologia was in a dire state when Paulo – may his soul rest in peace – had a massive stroke and died in 2035. As a result, Luiz was forced to quit his MBA course at the Singapore campus of INSEAD, the French business school (which, by that time, was considered to be better than the original campus in Fontainebleau), break up with Miriam, his half-Xhosa/half-Uzbek girlfriend (a distant cousin of Nelson Mandela on her Xhosa side), and return to Brazil to take over the family firm at the age of 27. Things have not improved much since Luiz took over. True, he has successfully fought off several patent suits. But if he loses even one of the three that are still pending (none of them is looking hopeful), he will face ruin.

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
by Tim Butcher
Published 2 Jun 2013

After crossing the mountain into safe territory we drove through the small hours to reach a hotel down on the Croatian coast, where I fell into a delicious sleep. When I woke I turned on the television to witness an event of great significance to the country I now call home: South Africa’s victory in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. It was a moment made magical by Nelson Mandela’s grand gesture of forgiveness. Rugby had long been associated with South Africa’s white community, the dominant minority that had so cruelly exploited the black majority, yet there was Mandela willing on the Springboks, even wearing a Springbok shirt. It was a rare but inspiring example of past hatreds being buried, people looking to tomorrow and letting go of yesterday, breaking the cycle of victimhood and vengeance.

Utopias: A Brief History From Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities
by Howard P. Segal
Published 20 May 2012

But 170 Utopia Reconsidered such attempted revisionism had been decisively refuted, especially in Mary Lefkowitz’s superb Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (1996). Meanwhile, in a throwback to that skepticism about Western science, South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki (born in 1942), the successor to Nelson Mandela and the nation’s second black president, set back his country’s response to its widespread AIDS epidemic during his administration. Mbeki repeatedly questioned what was the scientific consensus on the causes and treatment of AIDS, condemning these as remnants of Western colonial oppression, and simultaneously insisted on the use instead of traditional African medical remedies.

The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
by Daniel Ammann
Published 12 Oct 2009

Remarkably, a striking example of this pragmatism was the new democratic government in South Africa. Rich continued to do business with South Africa after the end of apartheid despite all of the anti-Rich rhetoric from the African National Congress, which won the first democratic elections. The new government under Nelson Mandela relied on Rich’s services. “We continued to do oil business with the new government,” Rich told me. “It was completely normal for us to continue the business. We think in the long term.” SURPRISING SERVICES How Rich Helped Israel and the USA I sraeli tourist Anita Griffel was spending the weekend of October 5–6, 1985, in the Sinai Peninsula together with her five-year-old daughter and a couple of friends.

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
by Laura Spinney
Published 31 May 2017

From that apogee, a long process of decolonisation would break up those empires and liberate their colonies. But 1918 also saw one of the last battles in one of the last colonial wars–the American Indian Wars, in which the European settlers of North America fought, and ultimately defeated, its indigenous peoples. Future heads of state Nicolae Ceau¸sescu and Nelson Mandela were born in 1918, as was the future dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the film director Ingmar Bergman and the actress Rita Hayworth. Max Planck won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum theory, while Fritz Haber won the chemistry prize for inventing a way of producing ammonia, which is important in the manufacture of fertilisers and explosives (the Nobel committees decided not to award prizes in medicine, literature or peace that year).

The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions
by David Robson
Published 7 Mar 2019

Besides reducing bias, that’s also thought to be essential for creativity; tolerance of ambiguity is linked to entrepreneurial innovation, for instance.43 Given the effort involved, no one would advise that you learn a language solely to improve your reasoning – but if you already speak one or have been tempted to resuscitate a language you left behind at school, then the foreign language effect could be one additional strategy to regulate your emotions and improve your decision making. If nothing else, you might consider the way it influences your professional relationships with international colleagues; the language you use could determine whether they are swayed by the emotions behind the statement or the facts. As Nelson Mandela once said: ‘If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.’ One of the most exciting implications of the research on emotional awareness and reflective thinking is that it may finally offer a way to resolve the ‘the curse of expertise’.

Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
by Bill McKibben
Published 15 Apr 2019

And so, they worked quickly to wire their first community. Our car was now bumping to a stop outside one of these first-to-be-wired villages, Kofihuikrom. We got out and inspected the small, fenced-in array of solar panels and then walked to the most prominent building in the settlement, a cement-block clinic with a big poster on one wall showing Nelson Mandela talking about tuberculosis. The clinic’s director was there to shake our hands. “I always had to store vaccines in different villages—in a different district,” he said. “No refrigerator. Now—now I can make ice packs for people. When I came here, we were using flashlights to see patients. That had to stop.

Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
Published 25 Aug 2009

Camped beside us at Base Camp was a twenty-five-year-old Norwegian climber named Petter Neby, who announced his intention to make a solo ascent of the Southwest Face,* one of the peak’s most dangerous and technically demanding routes—despite the fact that his Himalayan experience was limited to two ascents of neighboring Island Peak, a 20,274-foot bump on a subsidiary ridge of Lhotse involving nothing more technical than vigorous walking. And then there were the South Africans. Sponsored by a major newspaper, the Johannesburg Sunday Times, their team had inspired effusive national pride and had received a personal blessing from President Nelson Mandela prior to their departure. They were the first South African expedition ever to be granted a permit to climb Everest, a mixed-race group that aspired to put the first black person on the summit. Their leader was Ian Woodall, thirty-nine, a loquacious, mouselike man who relished telling anecdotes about his brave exploits as a military commando behind enemy lines during South Africa’s long, brutal conflict with Angola in the 1980s.

Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West
by Timothy Garton Ash
Published 30 Jun 2004

But there is no finite stock of terrorists to be eliminated. People are not born terrorists, as they are born English, Chinese, or Creek Indians. They become terrorists in specific political and personal circumstances, and might cease to be terrorists when those circumstances change. At one point in his career, Nelson Mandela was arguably, by the State Department’s definition, a terrorist. If you kill ten terrorists, without changing the political circumstances, they can become martyrs for their own community and give birth to a hundred more. Terror is a means, not an end—except for a few psychopaths. To be sure, even for non-psychopaths, terrorism can, with time, become a way of life, and of supposedly honorable death.

Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland
by Ben Coates
Published 23 Sep 2015

Foreign news outlets expressed amazement at the latest example of crazy Dutch behaviour, while the Dutch media remained firmly in the pro-Piet camp. Soon after the event in Rotterdam, the leading Telegraaf newspaper reported of recent events in South Africa: ‘There have been reactions abroad and in the Netherlands to the death of Nelson Mandela, who died, of all times, on Sinterklaas evening, with Zwarte Piet.’ However, some of the more egregious features of the traditional celebrations had been ditched. In Amsterdam, the mayor refused to ban the annual Sinterklaas parade but conceded that change might be needed, emphasising (as any good Dutchman would) that ‘the first matter of importance is gradualness’.

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
by Rebecca Henderson
Published 27 Apr 2020

It grew from decades of work by thousands of African Americans and their allies, each doing the dangerous and difficult work of standing up for change. Rosa Parks was not a lone heroine who simply decided to stay in her seat one evening. She was a deeply committed civil rights worker whose decision that night was taken in close collaboration with a network of experienced female activists. Nelson Mandela did not single-handedly end apartheid in South Africa. He built on fifty years of struggle in which thousands of people participated and hundreds died. Remember Erik Osmundsen, the CEO who took a corrupt waste collection company and made it a leader in recycling? Whenever he visits my class, he begins by saying that it’s not about him.

Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
by Bill Browder
Published 11 Apr 2022

When Vladimir addressed the MPs in Ottawa, he switched effortlessly between French and English without a hint of a Russian accent. He had shed his accent through years of British schooling, first at high school in London and then at Cambridge University. He was so talented, charismatic, and articulate that whenever I heard him speak it felt like I was listening to a young Nelson Mandela or Václav Havel. As it happened, Vladimir and I had an opportunity to make our case for Magnitsky sanctions against the people responsible for Boris’s murder in Washington on April 30, 2015, a little more than two months after his assassination. We had both been invited to speak at a congressional memorial for Boris that would be held in room 2255 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy
by Nick Romeo
Published 15 Jan 2024

Scholte often speaks at panels and conferences on corporate sustainability, and he has a keen impatience with the self-congratulation that corporate figures shower upon themselves as they discuss their efforts to become more sustainable. There are often grand promises evoking a distant but brighter future, perhaps an inspirational quote from Nelson Mandela, and almost certainly the metaphor of a journey, which suggests that Odyssean executives can reach the distant Ithaca of sustainability only if they defeat the monsters and perils besetting their voyage home. What does not tend to happen is immediate action. Scholte has a term for the phenomenon of corporate leaders who get offended when confronted with evidence that they cause great human suffering and environmental despoliation: business fragility.

Rough Guide to San Francisco and the Bay Area
by Nick Edwards and Mark Ellwood
Published 2 Jan 2009

The Black Panthers once held court in West Oakland (see box above), and in 1989, Panthers co-founder Huey Newton was gunned down here in a drug-related revenge attack; later the same year, the double-decker I-880 freeway that divided the neighborhood from the rest of the city collapsed in on itself during an earthquake, killing dozens of commuters. Local AfricanAmerican leaders successfully resisted government plans to rebuild that concrete eyesore; the broad, street-level Nelson Mandela Parkway has replaced it, thereby removing the physical justification for the “other side of the freeway” stigma once linked to the place. Now the neighborhood is a magnet for artists and skate punks from across the Bay, who revel in its dirtcheap rents and open spaces – indicating that the first signs of its surprisingly tardy gentrification are finally afoot.

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Magnes Museum ................................... 310 Justin Herman Plaza....... 61 Kesey, Ken.................... 133 King Ridge-Meyers Grade ................................... 368 kitesurfing...................... 268 435 i n de x | Miwok tribe.................... 391 mobile phones................. 43 money.............................. 41 Montara Lighthouse...... 341 Monte Rio...................... 387 Montgomery Block.......... 58 Mooney, Tom................. 399 Morcom Amphitheater of Roses.......................... 298 Mormon Temple............ 297 Morrison Reading Room ................................... 306 Moscone, George.......... 125 Moss Beach.................. 341 motor sports.................. 275 Mount Diablo................. 320 Mount Livermore........... 358 Mount St Helena........... 376 Mount Tamalpais........... 356 mountain biking............. 268 Mountain View Cemetery ................................... 298 movies................. 232–234, 412–420 Muir Beach.................... 355 Muir Woods National Monument.................. 356 Muir, John...................... 287 MUNI............................... 26 Municipal Rose Garden ................................... 337 Murphy Windmill........... 147 Musée Méchanique.... 12, 84 Museo Italo-Americano....90 Museum of Paleontology ................................... 306 Music Concourse.......... 144 music, live see “live music” N 436 Napa.............................. 371 Napa County Historical Society........................ 371 Napa Firefighters Museum ................................... 373 Napa Valley.......... 369–378 Napa Valley Wine Library ................................... 374 Napa Valley wineries..... 372 National AIDS Memorial Grove.......................... 144 National Institute of Art and Disabilities.................. 315 National Shrine of St Francis..................... 72 Nelson Mandela Parkway ................................... 296 Neptune Society Columbarium.............. 139 Newsome, Gavin........... 404 newspapers..................... 33 Newton, Huey................ 296 Nickelodeon.................. 131 nightlife........................... 16 East Bay............................ 322 Marin County.................... 364 Palo Alto............................ 332 San Francisco................... 224 San Jose........................... 339 Wine Country........... 377, 384, 388 Nike Missile Site............ 352 Nob Hill............................ 79 Noe Valley...................... 127 North Bay...................... 316 North Beach............. 69–74 North Beach and the hills. ..................................... 69 North Beach Museum..... 73 North Berkeley.............. 309 North Oakland............... 298 northeast waterfront........ 78 northern waterfront .............................. 81–98 northern waterfront and Pacific Heights...... 82–83 Northside....................... 310 Norton, Joshua................ 53 O O’Neill, Eugene.............. 319 Oakland................ 288–301 Oakland......................... 289 Oakland, downtown..... 291 Oakland Airport............. 287 Oakland Ice Center...... 270, 293 Oakland Museum.......... 294 Oakland Zoo.................. 298 Oakville.......................... 374 Oakville Grade............... 368 Ocean Beach................. 148 Ocean Shore Railroad Depot.......................... 340 Octagon Museum............ 91 Ohlone tribe................... 391 Old Faithful Geyser....... 375 Old Mint......................... 105 Old St Hilary’s Church ................................... 358 Old St Mary’s Church...... 66 Olema............................ 360 opera............................. 227 Orinda............................ 318 P Pacific Avenue................. 63 Pacific Coast Stock Exchange...................... 57 Pacific Film Archive....... 307 Pacific Heights......... 92–94 Pacific Heights and the northern waterfront. ............................... 82–83 Pacific Heritage Museum ..................................... 58 Pacifica.......................... 340 Painted Ladies, the........ 14, 134 Palace Hotel.................. 102 Palace of Fine Arts.......... 90 Palo Alto........................ 329 Palomarin Trailhead....... 356 Pan Toll Road................ 357 Panhandle..................... 130 Panoramic Highway...... 355 Paradise Beach............. 358 Paramount Theatre......... 16, 292 Paramount’s Great America ................................... 338 party buses.................... 224 Peace Pagoda............... 136 Peninsula, the...... 326–345 Peninsula, the............... 327 People’s Park................ 307 Peralta Adobe................ 335 Performance and Design, Museum of................. 115 performing arts and film ........................... 227–234 Pescadero..................... 344 Petrified Forest.............. 376 Pez Museum................. 326 Phelan Mansion............... 92 phones............................. 42 Piedmont Avenue.......... 298 Pillar Point..................... 341 Pink Triangle Park.......... 124 Pioneer Park.................... 74 Pixar.............................. 296 Plaza de Cesar Chavez ................................... 335 Point Bonita Lighthouse ................................... 352 Point Reyes Bird Observatory................ 356 Point Reyes National Seashore.................... 360 Point Reyes Station....... 360 Point Richmond............. 315 Polk Gulch..................... 109 Port Costa..................... 316 Port View Park............... 295 Portsmouth Square......... 64 postal services................ 40 Potrero Hill..................... 124 Power Exchange........... 111 Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center......................... 123 Preservation Park.......... 292 Presidio Visitor Center..... 95 Presidio, the............. 94–97 Princeton-by-the-Sea.... 341 Pumpkin Festival........... 343 Q Quarry Beach................ 359 Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden........................ 147 Safari West.................... 383 Sailboat House.............. 294 sake tasting................... 311 sales tax.......................... 37 Samuel Taylor State Park ................................... 360 San Anselmo................. 359 San Augustín................. 392 San Francisco Art Institute ..................................... 77 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery .................................... 115 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art................... 14 San Francisco National Cemetery...................... 94 San Francisco Public Library......................... 113 San Francisco State University.................... 148 San Francisco Theological Seminary..................... 359 San Francisco Zeum..... 104 San Francisco Zoo........ 148 San Gregorio beaches ................................... 343 San Jose............... 333–339 San Jose....................... 334 San Jose Museum of Art ................................... 335 San Jose Repertory Theater....................... 336 San Mateo..................... 327 San Pedro Point............ 340 San Pedro Square......... 335 San Quentin State Prison ................................... 359 San Rafael..................... 361 Sanchez Adobe............. 340 Santa Clara.................... 338 Santa Rosa.................... 382 Sather Gate................... 306 Sausalito........................ 353 Sea Cliff......................... 141 Sea Horse/Friendly Acres Ranch......................... 341 accessories, shoes, and jewelry............................ 248 art galleries....................... 260 books........................ 243, 308 casualwear........................ 250 delis and groceries............ 255 department stores and malls . ..................................... 247 designer clothing.............. 251 East Bay............................ 324 farmers’ markets........ 62, 257, 295 fashion.............................. 248 food and drink................... 255 gifts and oddities.............. 261 health and beauty............. 258 music................................. 258 shopping streets............... 244 specialty stores................. 260 tea, coffee, and spices..... 256 vintage clothes and thrift stores............................. 253 wines and spirits............... 257 Shoreline Highway........ 354 Sierra Club.................... 319 Silicon Valley................. 330 Silverado Museum........ 374 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard ................................... 359 Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.................. 126 Six Flags Discovery Kingdom..................... 318 skateboarding................ 269 Skyline Boulevard.......... 340 Skywalker Ranch........... 362 Snoopy’s Home Ice . .... 383 soccer............................ 275 Society of California Pioneers...................... 105 SoFA (San Jose)............ 336 Solano Avenue.............. 309 SoMa (South of Market) ............................. 99–109 SoMa, the Tenderloin, and Civic Center....... 100–101 Sonoma......................... 380 Sonoma State Historic Park ................................... 380 Sonoma Valley............. 378 | radio................................ 33 Ramona Street.............. 329 Red Rocks nudist beach ................................... 355 Redwood Forest Theater ................................... 387 restaurants, see “eating” Rexroth, Kenneth.......... 132 Richardson, William....... 394 Richmond (East Bay)..... 315 Richmond Museum of History........................ 315 Richmond, the..... 138–140 Richmond, Golden Gate Park, and the Sunset. ................................... 138 Rincon Center............... 102 Rivera, Diego................... 74 Robert Crown Memorial Beach......................... 295 Robert Louis Stevenson Park............................ 376 Robert Sibley Regional Preserve...................... 299 Robson-Harrington Park ................................... 359 rock climbing................. 266 Rockridge...................... 299 Rodeo Beach................ 353 Rodeo Lagoon............... 353 Rodin, Auguste.............. 139 Rolling Stones............... 321 Rosicrucian Museum..... 337 Rowell House................ 310 S Seal Rock...................... 142 Seale, Bobby................. 296 senior travelers................ 43 Seventh Street (Oakland) ................................... 295 sex industry................... 111 SFMOMA...................14, 89 Shakespeare Garden..... 147 Sharpsteen Museum and Sam Brannan Cottage ................................... 375 shopping i n de x R running.......................... 266 Russian Hill...................... 77 Russian River Blues Festival....................... 387 Russian River Valley ........................... 384–388 Russian River Valley wineries...................... 386 437 i n de x | Sonoma Valley wineries ................................... 380 Sony Metreon................ 103 South Hall, UC Berkeley ................................... 306 South of Market, see “SoMa” sports and outdoor activities............ 264–276 Spreckels Mansion.......... 92 Sproul Plaza, UC Berkeley ................................... 305 St Helena....................... 374 St Patrick’s Catholic Church........................ 106 St Paul’s Episcopal Church ................................... 317 Stanford Linear Accelerator ................................... 332 Stanford University ........................... 329–332 State Capitol, first......... 317 Steep Ravine................. 355 Stein, Gertrude.............. 290 Stern Grove................... 148 Stinson Beach............... 355 Stockton Street............... 67 Stow Lake..................... 147 Strauss, Levi.................. 122 Strybing Arboretum....... 147 Summer of Love............ 133 Sunset, the.................... 148 Sunset, Richmond, and Golden Gate Park . ... 138 surfing............................ 268 Sutro Baths................... 142 Sutro, Adolph................ 141 Sweeney Ridge............. 340 swimming...................... 267 Symbionese Liberation Army........................... 290 T 438 Takara Sake Tasting Room ................................... 311 Tank Hill......................... 127 Tao House..................... 319 taquerias.......................... 13 taxis................................. 28 Tech Museum of Innovation ................................... 335 Telegraph Avenue.......... 307 Telegraph Hill................... 74 telephones....................... 42 television......................... 33 Temelpa Trail................. 357 Temple Emanu-El.......... 139 Tenderloin, the..... 109–111 Tenderloin, SoMa, and Civic Center, the. ........................... 100–101 Tennessee Valley........... 354 tennis............................. 269 theater.................. 229–231 Theater District................ 54 Tiburon.......................... 357 Tilden Park.................... 310 Tomales Point................ 361 tour companies in San Francisco...................... 32 tourist offices................... 45 trains to San Francisco....21 Transamerica Pyramid 58 travel agents.................... 23 travel essentials............... 36 travelers’ checks............. 41 Tribune Tower................ 292 Triton Museum of Art..... 338 tule elk........................... 361 Twin Peaks.................... 126 U UC Berkeley Art Museum ................................... 307 UC Theatre.................... 307 Union Square.................. 49 Union Square.................. 52 Union Street.................... 91 United Nations Plaza..... 112 University Avenue (Palo Alto)............................ 328 University Avenue (Berkeley).................... 310 University of California (Berkeley).......... 304–307 US Mint......................... 132 USS Potomac................ 295 V Vaillancourt Fountain....... 61 Valencia Street.............. 122 Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum...................... 318 Vallejo............................ 318 Venice Beach................. 341 Veterans Building.......... 115 Veterans Memorial Beach ................................... 387 Victorian architecture...... 93 visas................................ 37 Volcanic Witch Project.... 299 W walking tours................... 31 War Memorial Opera House ................................... 115 Warren Billings.............. 399 Washington Square......... 73 Wave Organ..................... 91 Waverly Place temples.... 66 websites.......................... 46 Wells Fargo History Museum........................ 56 West Berkeley............... 310 West Oakland................ 295 West Portal.................... 152 Western Addition........... 135 Westfield San Francisco Center......................... 105 whale watching............. 270 Wildcat Beach............... 356 Winchester Mystery House ................................... 337 windsurfing.................... 268 Wine Country................ 11, 365–388 Wine Country................ 366 Wine Train...................... 368 wineries.........372, 380, 386 wire transfers................... 41 Wolf House.................... 381 Women’s Building.......... 122 Woodside...................... 328 Wright, Frank Lloyd....... 362 Y Yahoo!............................

Realizing Tomorrow: The Path to Private Spaceflight
by Chris Dubbs , Emeline Paat-dahlstrom and Charles D. Walker
Published 1 Jun 2011

The HIV study addressed an issue particularly important to Africa, where the disease has been devastating. Shuttleworth was the first person from Africa to fly in space, and he saw himself as an unofficial representative of his country and the continent. His flight aroused a national pride, and he would conduct in-flight phone calls with South African president Thabo Mbeki and former president Nelson Mandela, but he was also aware of how his experience could inspire all of Africa. When BBC News Online interviewed him from space, Shuttleworth stressed how important it was for Africa to embrace its future and create a sense of excitement for the people. "One of the things I hoped to do by fulfilling my own dream was to do it in a way that might reach out to particularly children and learners in Africa and show them that dreams can come true, and that's a very powerful thought.

Bad Science
by Ben Goldacre
Published 1 Jan 2008

He has been arrested and imprisoned under South Africa’s violent, brutal white regime, with all that entailed. He is also gay, and HIV-positive, and he refused to take anti-retroviral medication until it was widely available to all on the public health system, even when he was dying of AIDS, even when he was personally implored to save himself by Nelson Mandela, a public supporter of anti-retroviral medication and Achmat’s work. And now, at last, we come to the lowest point of this whole story, not merely for Matthias Rath’s movement, but for the alternative therapy movement around the world as a whole. In 2007, with a huge public flourish, to great media coverage, Rath’s former employee Anthony Brink filed a formal complaint against Zackie Achmat, the head of the TAC.

The Industries of the Future
by Alec Ross
Published 2 Feb 2016

China reversed its economic model, creating a new form of hybrid capitalism and pulling more than half a billion people out of poverty. The European Union was created. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect, integrating the United States, Canada, and Mexico into what is now the world’s largest free trade zone. Apartheid ended and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa. While I was in college, the world was also newly coming online. The World Wide Web was launched to the public, along with the web browser, the search engine, and e-commerce. Amazon was incorporated while I was driving to a training site for my first job out of college.

Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot
by Mark Vanhoenacker
Published 1 Jun 2015

Point Reyes is the name of a lighthouse on the Northern California coast; a beacon near it, known by the same name, features on arrivals in San Francisco. On flights over India, we may fly over the beacon of Delhi, and like so many Taj Mahal–bound travelers below, our next stop is Agra. Robben Island, off Cape Town, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated, was a prison even in the seventeenth century. It’s home, too, to a beacon of the same name, which appears on charts for Cape Town’s airport, and forms part of an often-used arrival pattern. I have a Canadian friend from a small town in interior British Columbia. When I first asked where she was from, she laughed and shook her head and said I would not know it; it was a tiny town where they didn’t close the school unless the temperature was colder than minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.

The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money
by Frederik Obermaier
Published 17 Jun 2016

There was a military coup, and then another one. Ultimately, in the first somewhat democratic elections in the country’s history, a man named Alpha Condé was elected. He’d left Guinea when it was still under French rule, studied law in Paris and lectured at the Sorbonne. When he entered office, Alpha Condé pledged to be the Nelson Mandela of Guinea. One of his first official tasks was to review the Simandou deal, the fishiness of which had reached even the furthest-flung corners. The Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim summed it up at an African economic conference at the time: ‘Are the Guineans who did that deal idiots, or criminals, or both?’

Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible
by Stephen Braun and Douglas Farah
Published 1 Apr 2008

He was trying to get planes and moving them around. It seemed like he didn’t really have time to sleep.” South Africa was attractive for several reasons. He could remain relatively close to the Great Lakes region, where he was working, and to his operations in Angola. Despite the 1994 election of Nelson Mandela, the white-dominated security forces continued to send weapons to UNITA. And South Africa offered the best opportunities for legitimate business, something Bout correctly sensed could be a lucrative, if not dominant, part of his growing empire. No other African capital could match Johannesburg’s urban charm and sophistication.

A Pelican Introduction Economics: A User's Guide
by Ha-Joon Chang
Published 26 May 2014

In this part, we have discussed what economics is (a study of the economy), what the economy is, how our economy has become what it is today, how there are many different ways of studying it and who the main economic actors are. Having become ‘used to’ economics, let us now discuss how we can ‘use’ it to understand the real world economy. ‘It always seems impossible until it is done.’ NELSON MANDELA How to ‘Use’ Economics? My aim in this book has been to show the reader how to think, not what to think, about the economy. We have covered many topics, and I don’t expect my readers to remember all – or even most – of them. But there are a few important things to keep in mind when you are ‘using’ economics (this is, after all, a User’s Guide).

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor
Published 1 Feb 2018

The power of non-violence rests in being able to say, ‘to show you that you are wrong, I punish myself’. But that has little effect on those who are not interested in whether they are wrong and are already seeking to punish you whether you disagree with them or not. For them your willingness to undergo punishment is the most convenient means of victory. No wonder Nelson Mandela, who wrote that Gandhi had ‘always’ been ‘a great source of inspiration’, explicitly disavowed non-violence as useless in his struggle against the ruthless apartheid regime. On this subject Gandhi sounds frighteningly unrealistic: ‘The willing sacrifice of the innocent is the most powerful answer to insolent tyranny that has yet been conceived by God or man.

The Dealmaker: Lessons From a Life in Private Equity
by Guy Hands
Published 4 Nov 2021

In 1964, Ian Smith, soon to be elected prime minister, was to declare his intention to resist Britain’s demand for majority rule and make a unilateral declaration of independence. ‘I don’t believe in Black majority rule ever in Rhodesia – not in a thousand years,’ Smith said. Both my parents objected to Apartheid. While a student, my mother had heard Nelson Mandela give a speech and was so impressed that she went out of her way to meet him afterwards. She told her parents that she thought he would be a future prime minister of South Africa. Their response was typical of the time – ‘Don’t be so stupid Sally, and keep that sort of thought to yourself.’ As a barrister, my father had a few run-ins with the judiciary over the laws that governed the Black population.

Broke: How to Survive the Middle Class Crisis
by David Boyle
Published 15 Jan 2014

Boléat’s deputy Adrian Coles, soon to take over from him, had a new version of the estate-agent joke — that people had mortgages they couldn’t afford, houses they couldn’t sell and partners they couldn’t stand. But fast-forward a few years, to 1994, and there was a new prime minister, the economy had begun to pick up again, and demutualization seeped back on to the financial pages. April that year was a tumultuous month: the Rwandan genocide began, the multiple murder Fred West was arrested, and Nelson Mandela was elected South African president. Late in the evening of 20 April, Adrian Coles got a call tipping him off that the following morning Lloyds Bank would pay £1.8 billion for the Cheltenham & Gloucester Building Society and its million members. That took him aback in itself — a demutualization followed by an acquisition — but what really shocked him was the scale of the bid.

Age of Anger: A History of the Present
by Pankaj Mishra
Published 26 Jan 2017

American advisors rushed to Moscow to facilitate Russia’s makeover into a liberal democracy; China and India began to open up their economies to trade and investment; new nation states and democracies blossomed across a broad swathe of Europe, Asia and Africa; the enlarged European Union came into being; peace was declared in Northern Ireland; Nelson Mandela ended his long walk to freedom; the Dalai Lama appeared in Apple’s ‘Think Different’ advertisements; and it seemed only a matter of time before Tibet, too, would be free. Over the last two decades, elites in even many formerly socialist countries came to uphold an ideal of cosmopolitan liberalism: the universal commercial society of self-interested rational individuals that was originally advocated in the eighteenth century by such Enlightenment thinkers as Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Voltaire and Kant.

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
by David Epstein
Published 1 Mar 2019

He knew he hadn’t done his best with three kids from a previous marriage, but now he could see that he’d been given a second chance to do the right thing with number four. And it was all going according to plan. The boy was already famous by the time he reached Stanford, and soon his father opened up about his importance. His son would have a larger impact than Nelson Mandela, than Gandhi, than Buddha, he insisted. “He has a larger forum than any of them,” he said. “He’s the bridge between the East and the West. There is no limit because he has the guidance. I don’t know yet exactly what form this will take. But he is the Chosen One.” * * * — This second story, you also probably know.

The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
by Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 2014

On the other side we have Oxford University Press, most American book publishers, and the many wise guys who have discovered that omitting a serial comma can result in ambiguity:65 Among those interviewed were Merle Haggard’s two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall. This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God. Highlights of Peter Ustinov’s global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector. The absence of a serial comma in a list of phrases can also create garden paths. He enjoyed his farm, conversations with his wife and his horse momentarily calls to mind the famous Mister Ed, and a reader who is unfamiliar with the popular music of the 1970s might well be tripped up by the sentence on the left, stumbling over the mythical duo Nash and Young and the run-on sequence Lake and Palmer and Seals and Crofts: Without the serial comma: With the serial comma: My favorite performers of the 1970s are Simon and Garfunkel, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Seals and Crofts.

News and How to Use It: What to Believe in a Fake News World
by Alan Rusbridger
Published 26 Nov 2020

Hastings’s account is a rare glimpse of how a network of extremely wealthy individuals operated in the old ‘vertical’ world in which information was passed down from on high. His proprietor had strong views on Europe, and the Conservative Party, and was an ‘energetic supporter of the Israeli cause against that of the Palestinians’. And then there was South Africa, which had the almost miraculous good fortune of having a leader as calm and enlightened as Nelson Mandela to oversee its transition from the evils of apartheid to a black-majority society. Black had other ideas – which, in turn, came from John Aspinall, a rakish multi-millionaire buccaneer who made his riches from running dimly lit upper-class gambling clubs in London. According to Hastings, Aspinall/Black wanted the Telegraph to back Chief Buthelezi, leader of South Africa’s Zulus.

Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed With Alcohol
by Holly Glenn Whitaker
Published 9 Jan 2020

Real power is the ability to be in your skin, to know who you are, to know you will always be okay. Real power comes from your gut and your heart and your courage and your bravery and your love. Real power can never be taken away from you and never lost once it’s found. It’s the kind of power that people like Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rosa Parks and the Dalai Lama all had or have—a quality within unaffected by outer circumstances, an eternal flame that cannot be touched. I repeat Yogi Bhajan’s words here: You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. I imagine you’re wondering where you even begin to acquire this kind of power.

Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights Into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator
by Jung H. Pak
Published 14 Apr 2020

“He left without getting any exam results at all. He was much more interested in football and basketball than lessons,” said Micaelo. Perhaps he just wasn’t interested in the school’s curriculum, which included coursework in Swiss history since 1291 and the evolution of democracy there, civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela, and human rights. But the competitiveness he lacked in the classroom showed up in spades on the basketball court. “He was very explosive,” one friend said. “He could make things happen. He was the playmaker.” Another friend said Jong Un was tough and fast: “He hated to lose. Winning was very important.”

Democracy for Sale: Dark Money and Dirty Politics
by Peter Geoghegan
Published 2 Jan 2020

Taylor had been one of the “bastards” singled out by John Major after their rebellion over the Maastricht Treaty in 1993 almost brought down his government. Scottish journalist and later Labour MP Brian Wilson once remarked that calling Taylor by a cuddly name like ‘Teddy’ was “like calling the hound of the Baskervilles ‘Rover’”.2 In the mid-1980s, Taylor said that Nelson Mandela should be shot. (He later said he was joking.) A few years earlier, Glasgow had become the first city in the world to give the African National Congress leader the Freedom of the City. Cook followed Taylor’s rightward political path. He became Scottish spokesman for the Campaign Against Political Correctness, railing against “overpaid salary-justifying busybodies who should go and get a proper job in the real world”.

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall
Published 5 May 2009

He’d made his bones by finding connections where everyone else saw coincidence, and the more he examined the compassion link, the more intriguing it became. Was it just by chance that the pantheon of dedicated runners also included Abraham Lincoln (“He could beat all the other boys in a footrace”) and Nelson Mandela (a college cross-country standout who, even in prison, continued to run seven miles a day in place in his cell)? Maybe Ron Clarke wasn’t being poetic in his description of Zatopek—maybe his expert eye was clinically precise: His love of life shone through every movement. Yes! Love of life! Exactly!

If You See Them
by Vicki Sokolik
Published 23 Nov 2023

“What’s it about?” “You’ll have to read it to find out.” We looked up the book in the library catalog, found its details, then tracked it down. Then I guided him around to other shelves, and he picked out The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, and Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. I was impressed by his choices and excited by his excitement, although I did wonder how my own book recommendation would rate next to the competition in his arms. But the next time we met, at Barnes & Noble, he wanted to discuss The Alchemist. “Whoa, you already read it?” I couldn’t believe it.

A History of Modern Britain
by Andrew Marr
Published 2 Jul 2009

Men trained at Sandhurst, brought up inside the British Empire, turned into corrupt dictators and in the worst case, that of Uganda’s Idi Amin, a monster. Few of those liberal, highly intelligent liberation leaders feted in London by the left during the fifties and sixties turned into great progressive figures back home in Africa – perhaps the only great exception being Nelson Mandela himself. Military coups, the imprisonment of opposition leaders, tribal feuds and famines followed and for all this, the former British rulers must take some responsibility. Did the British scuttle from Africa happen too fast, in a mood of political hysteria and without proper thought for what would follow?

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A few days after these events, East Germany announced the opening of the border to the West and joyous Berliners began hacking their wall to pieces. Then the communists fell in Czechoslovakia. Then the Romanian dictator Ceaus¸escu was dragged from power. A few weeks after that, in February 1990, Nelson Mandela, a man she had once denounced as a terrorist, was released to global acclaim. In the middle of all this the Commons had witnessed an event which seemed the opposite of historic. Thatcher had been challenged as leader of the Conservative Party by Sir Anthony Meyer, an obscure, elderly pro-European backbencher much mocked as ‘the stalking donkey’.

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel
by Nicholas Ostler
Published 23 Nov 2010

Rather, Akkadian as a lingua-franca seems to have been the beneficiary of the founder effect: all these powers (but Egypt) had derived their literacy from the tradition developed in Mesopotamia. Akkadian had been the language of every scribe’s school days, as they learned how to apply its system to their own languages. So, con ve niently, it was taken up for international correspondence. * Nelson Mandela had as a mother tongue Xhosa, practiced law in English, but became notorious for his consummate command of Afrikaans, which he urged his comrades to study, on the “know the enemy” principle: “To wage war, Mr. Mandela told his fellow inmate, Mac Maharaj, ‘you must understand the mind of the opposing commander.

Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
by Ian Goldin , Geoffrey Cameron and Meera Balarajan
Published 20 Dec 2010

Consider, for example, the cases of Mohandas Gandhi, Kwame Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh, or Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf—leaders who spent their young adult years overseas, where they assimilated new ideas that allowed them to later play crucial roles in nation building at home. Viewed collectively, the South African diaspora—in the form of people forced into exile and their children—made important contributions to the anti-apartheid struggle, and many went back in 1994 to support Nelson Mandela's government. Diasporas from many Latin American countries, who initially fled dictatorial regimes, went back following early democratic reform to provide leadership. Through their actions in their adoptive homes, the Jewish and Taiwanese diasporas have helped to sustain Israel and Taiwan politically and in terms of innovation and finance.

The Global Citizen: A Guide to Creating an International Life and Career
by Elizabeth Kruempelmann
Published 14 Jul 2002

When the voyage ended in Hong Kong, I continued traveling with a group of students and staff on a postvoyage excursion to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Bangkok, Thailand. During the trip I met and talked with Mother Teresa of Calcutta on the airplane from Ho Chi Minh City to Bangkok; Bishop Desmond Tutu invited the ship- board community to a special mass while we were in South Africa; and some of us attended a rally in honor of Nelson Mandela. The Semester-at-Sea experience not only made me more culturally aware, it made me appreciate what we have in the United States. As an ESL teacher, I try to get to know my students as students as well as people—where they come from, their traditions, and heritage. Semester at Sea has made me a different sort of traveler.

Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna
Published 23 May 2016

The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do About It Divided Nations: Why Global Governance Is Failing, and What We Can Do About It Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future Globalization for Development: Meeting New Challenges The Case for Aid The Economics of Sustainable Development Economic Reform, Trade and Agricultural Development Modelling Economy-wide Reforms Trade Liberalization: Global Economic Implications Open Economies The Future of Agriculture Economic Crisis: Lessons from Brazil Making Race About the Authors IAN GOLDIN is Professor of Globalization and Director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford. He was Vice President of the World Bank, Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and an adviser to President Nelson Mandela. You can sign up for email updates here. CHRIS KUTARNA is a Fellow at the Oxford Martin School and an expert on international politics and economics. He was a strategy consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and continues to advise senior executives in Asia, North America and Europe.

The Idea of Israel: A History of Power and Knowledge
by Ilan Pappe
Published 30 Apr 2012

Since the start of the 1990s, Israel was under heavy attack by the post-Zionists. For some twenty years they enjoyed the halo of being fashionable, of being at one with the times. For all that they claimed we were ugly, they were beautiful. For all that they claimed we were evil, they were good. For all that they portrayed us as South Africa, they portrayed themselves as Nelson Mandela. The post-Zionists’ systematic attacks on the Jewish national home, on the Jewish national movement and against the Jewish people won them global acclaim. Their unconscious cooperation with anti-Semites, old and new, made them the darlings of international academia and the world media … Americans, Europeans, Arabs and Israelis are now being exposed – whether they know it or not – to the enormous gap between the (human) dimensions of Israeli injustice and the (inhuman) intensity of the brutality that surrounds it.

Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
by John Robbins
Published 1 Sep 2006

These are not easy times to uphold ourselves and the greater human possibility, nor to feel confident in our collective future. It saddens me beyond telling that human beings can be so destructive. But I take strength from the reality that as a species we have also produced people like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi, and millions of others whose names are not as well known but whose lives have also demonstrated profound generosity, wisdom, and courage. I am thinking, for example, of the hundreds of thousands of people who have worked day in and day out for decades so that we are now within a whisker of forever wiping out the last traces of both smallpox and polio from the face of the earth.

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
Published 24 Jan 2012

I’ve seen Tony Robbins’s infomercials—he claims that there’s always one airing at any given moment—and he strikes me as one of the more extroverted people on earth. But he’s not just any extrovert. He’s the king of self-help, with a client roster that has included President Clinton, Tiger Woods, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mother Teresa, Serena Williams, Donna Karan—and 50 million other people. And the self-help industry, into which hundreds of thousands of Americans pour their hearts, souls, and some $11 billion a year, by definition reveals our conception of the ideal self, the one we aspire to become if only we follow the seven principles of this and the three laws of that.

The Metropolitan Revolution: The Rise of Post-Urban America
by Jon C. Teaford
Published 1 Jan 2006

“What I want to know is how come it’s always the Cubans that’s shooting the niggers,” asked a local African American. A black former police officer admitted: “The Cu-bans will shoot a nigger faster’n a cracker will.”83 Then, in 1990, the black South African leader and renowned foe of racial apartheid Nelson Mandela visited Miami and ignited a clash that widened the chasm between blacks and Cubans. Mandela had expressed support for Cuban Communist leader Fidel Castro and had personally thanked Castro for his support for the battle against apartheid. This incensed Miami’s Cuban community, and five Cuban American mayors from Dade County, including the mayor of Miami, signed a statement condemning Mandela.

Leaving Orbit: Notes From the Last Days of American Spaceflight
by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Published 18 May 2015

We watch until we can see only the outlines of the tail fin again, and as Atlantis navigates into its place of honor at the head of the area where the party is to be held, we hear a cheer rising from the crowd gathered there. Once we’ve all piled back into the stagnant, fragrant bus, we sit motionless for a long time. Our driver, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Nelson Mandela, keeps the bus idling in a vain effort to get us some air. Waiting long periods of time in close quarters makes people chatty. The photojournalists strike up conversations. They gossip about others among their number who couldn’t make it to this event. They gossip about layoffs, journalism being another one of the occupations, like space work, in which even the best among them are being laid off in large numbers.

The Land Grabbers: The New Fight Over Who Owns the Earth
by Fred Pearce
Published 28 May 2012

Whatever the promises to local ministers, he believes the contracts give the farmers the right to grow what they want, to take a five-year tax holiday, not to pay any rent, and to repatriate all their profits. Next up is Mozambique. There is some inauspicious history here. In 1996, an agreement between South African president Nelson Mandela and his Mozambique counterpart Joaquim Chissano gave South African farmers the chance to take up fifty-year leases to farm up to 500,000 acres of old Portuguese cotton farms. The land was in the Lugenda river valley in the country’s least populated, most forested, and most northerly province of Niassa, bordering Tanzania.

Culture & Empire: Digital Revolution
by Pieter Hintjens
Published 11 Mar 2013

And in the end, after decades of decrying the holocaust that would follow any transfer of power, the Boers lost control of their Narrative, and white South Africans, particularly the business community, experienced an Awakening. They realized that their vision of a thousand years of white rule was a lie. It was bad for business, and it was unpleasant both on the streets, and in global terms. President Frederik Willem de Klerk released Nelson Mandela from 27 years of prison and found a willing negotiation partner. In 1994, after years of violence and terrorism that turned out to be largely sponsored by the state security services themselves, negotiated multiracial elections swept the African National Congress (ANC) into office. Many whites left the country, bitter, and afraid of a retribution that never came.

Korea
by Simon Winchester
Published 1 Jan 1988

He was accused of fomenting the trouble in Kwangju, of paying the student leaders and persuading them to demonstrate and riot, and—worst of all, considering that his supposed allegation has since been manifestly proven as the truth—of putting round the story that Chun’s paratroops in Kwangju had mutilated the bodies of women they had killed. The verdict was a foregone conclusion. The martial law tribunal found Kim guilty, and the soldiers sentenced him to death. And so the man about whom the world was largely ignorant came to enjoy, almost overnight, the semi-mythic status of a Nelson Mandela or a Ninoy Aquino—a status, cynics would later say, that bore little relation to the actual character of the man. The realities of global politics intervened, and Kim Dae Jung was not executed. Just before President Chun left for an official tour of the United States in January 1981, the sentence—which the American government had bitterly criticized—was commuted to life imprisonment and then commuted again to twenty years.

End of the World Blues
by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
Published 24 Sep 2006

See what you can find out about it.” Still too bald, so Kit added, “And take care of yourself…” The last e-mail Kit opened contained a map showing a tight jumble of streets in the shadow of a new overpass. Layers of history in a muddle of names, as Napier and Maffeking, old generals and battles intersected with Nelson Mandela Drive. Somewhere in that jumble of streets was the bar where Neku was being held. All Kit had to do was find it. He was aware just how absurd that sounded. Clubs and pubs needed to be licenced. A place with live music probably needed a different type of licence again. Someone would have that list.

Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War
by Ken Adelman
Published 5 May 2014

The arms race is slowing down.” The prize went to Gorbachev alone. The committee never mentioned Ronald Reagan. Previously, the committee had recognized joint contributions, such as Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho for negotiating the end of the Vietnam War (though that turned out poorly) and F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela for undertaking a peaceful transition in South Africa (which turned out well). Clearly the end of the Cold War and the termination of Communist rule across Europe—both of which Reagan helped hasten—are grand, historic achievements worthy of a Nobel Prize. Freeing 415 million men, women, and children from totalitarian Communist rule will not dissipate soon, or ever.

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
by Vincent Bevins
Published 18 May 2020

The process had begun when the military got emergency powers to fight the CIA in 1958. Now, the military received equipment and training from the US to engage in fishing, farming, and construction, which increased its economic interests and role around the country.42 In Africa, the US took a different direction. With CIA assistance, white South African authorities arrested Nelson Mandela in 1962. US officials also set the Middle East on a new path, in 1963. Outside Indonesia, the largest Communist Party in the Bandung countries was the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP), which had grown in opposition to dictator Abd al-Karim Qasim. The ICP thought of making a bid for revolution—and the Soviets advised against it.

Together
by Vivek H. Murthy, M.D.
Published 5 Mar 2020

Lauderdale, and Carole Ober, “Loneliness Is Associated with Sleep Fragmentation in a Communal Society,” Sleep 34, no. 11 (2011): 1519–26, https://doi.org/10.5665/sleep.1390. 16Hlumelo Siphe Williams, “What Is the Spirit of Ubuntu – and How Can We Have It in Our Lives?,” Global Citizen, October 19, 2018, https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/ubuntu-south-africa-together-nelson-mandela/. 17Luzia C. Heu, Martijn Van Zomeren, and Nina Hansen, “Lonely Alone or Lonely Together? A Cultural-Psychological Examination of Individualism–Collectivism and Loneliness in Five European Countries,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 45, no. 5 (2018): 780–93, https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167218796793. 18Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer from the People Who’ve Lived the Longest (Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 2010). 19Ami Rokach, “The Effect of Gender and Culture on Loneliness: A Mini Review,” Emerging Science Journal 2, no. 2 (April 2018), https://doi.org/10.28991/esj-2018-01128. 20Barry Golding, The Men’s Shed Movement: The Company of Men (Champaign, IL: Common Ground Publishing, 2015). 21Lucia Carragher, “Men’s Sheds in Ireland: Learning through community contexts,” The Netwell Centre School of Health & Science, Dundalk Institute of Technology, February 2013, http://menssheds.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Men%E2%80%99s-Sheds-in-Ireland-National-Survey.pdf. 22Ami Rokach, “The Effect of Gender and Culture on Loneliness: A Mini Review,” Emerging Science Journal 2, no. 2 (April 2018), https://doi.org/10.28991/esj-2018-01128. 23M.

Chasing the Devil: On Foot Through Africa's Killing Fields
by Tim Butcher
Published 1 Apr 2011

In Sierra Leone, journalists like me were guilty of striving to oversimplify the war, looking always to frame it in terms of government troops versus rebels. We tended to overlook the complex, systemic regression that had taken a country with a capital city once viewed as ‘The Athens of Africa’ and turned it into arguably the world’s poorest country. The regression did not lend itself to easy analysis. Sierra Leone has no iconic figure, no Nelson Mandela nor Patrice Lumumba, and no great symbolic turning point, no Sharpeville Massacre nor Wind of Change speech. Indeed, one of the country’s one-time heroes of the independence era, Siaka Stevens, whose name is still borne by the main street in Freetown leading to the Cotton Tree, blurred two separate identities as he was revered by some as a democrat loved by the people and decried by others as a murderous plunderer.

The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset That Drives Extraordinary Results
by Andrew McAfee
Published 14 Nov 2023

For example, if the respondent answered with six, the reversed score would be two. CHAPTER 7 Openness A Better Business Model A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. —Nelson Mandela Let’s wrap up our discussion of the great geek norms by looking at a prominent industrial-era company that wound up with norms so toxic that they helped drive it out of business. We first came across the accounting firm Arthur Andersen in chapter 1, when we used it to illustrate what a norm is.

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson
Published 13 Nov 2007

And it was a company that took full advantage of its impeccable political connections to ride all the way to the top of the bull market. Named by Fortune magazine as America’s Most Innovative Company for six consecutive years (1996-2001), that company was Enron. In November 2001, Alan Greenspan received a prestigious award, adding his name to a roll of honour that included Mikhail Gorbachev, Colin Powell and Nelson Mandela. The award was the Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service. Greenspan had certainly earned his accolade. From February 1995 until June 1999 he had raised US interest rates only once. Traders had begun to speak of the ‘Greenspan put’ because having him at the Fed was like having a ‘put’ option on the stock market (an option but not an obligation to sell stocks at a good price in the future).

The Long Boom: A Vision for the Coming Age of Prosperity
by Peter Schwartz , Peter Leyden and Joel Hyatt
Published 18 Oct 2000

That country has gone from seemingly unresolvable guerrilla warfare over apartheid to a functioning democracy that balances the rights of whites and blacks. It is critically important that South Africa's example of embracing democracy spreads to the rest of the continent. South Africa's most prominent political prisoner, Nelson Mandela, became one of the most respected national leaders in the world. Instead of a riot of violent retribution, the country has engaged in a formal process of reconciliation. This is one of the most impressive displays in the world of trying to dissipate violence and hatred through dialogue. Africans have a deep belief in the value of forgiveness.

Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
by Robert W. McChesney
Published 5 Mar 2013

The massive wave of advertising to children is considered a contributing factor in the epidemic of juvenile obesity, the growth of attention-deficit disorders, and other psychological issues, as well as the rampant sexualization of girls at ever-younger ages.43 In 2010, Alex Bogusky, who was named Adweek’s Creative Director of the Decade in 2009 and called “the Elvis of advertising,” announced he was quitting the industry, in part to protest marketers “spending billions to influence our innocent and defenseless offspring.” Bogusky termed advertising to children a “destructive” practice with no “redeeming value.”44 “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul,” Nelson Mandela once stated, “than the way it treats its children.”45 It is difficult to study the commercial marination of children’s brains and not regard it as child abuse.46 Free Market in Action? The fatal flaw in the catechism is the notion that the commercial entertainment media system is based upon a free market.

The Firm
by Duff McDonald
Published 1 Jun 2014

It became the most celebrated company in the country, with revenues topping $60 billion in 2000. As Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind pointed out in The Smartest Guys in the Room, Enron was beloved by all: “Fortune magazine named it ‘America’s most innovative company’ six years running. Washington luminaries like Henry Kissinger and James Baker were on its lobbying payroll. Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela came to Houston to receive the Enron Prize. The president of the United States called Enron chairman Kenneth Lay ‘Kenny Boy.’ ”10 Skilling took the McKinsey ethos with him to Enron. A description of him by McLean and Elkind reads like that of a typical McKinseyite: “He could process information and conceptualize new ideas with blazing speed.

The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen
Published 22 Apr 2013

History suggests that opposition movements need time to develop, and that the checks and balances that shape an emergent movement ultimately produce a stronger and more capable one, with leaders who are more in tune with the population they intend to inspire. Consider the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa. During its decades of exile from the apartheid state, the organization went through multiple iterations, and the men who would go on to become South African presidents (Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma) all had time to build their reputations, credentials and networks while honing their operational skills. Likewise with Lech Walesa and his Solidarity trade union in Poland; a decade passed before Solidarity leaders could contest seats in parliament, and their victory paved the way for the fall of communism.

It's Our Turn to Eat
by Michela Wrong
Published 9 Apr 2009

A born hack, he always felt at his best when things were on the move, when he had a defined target and a pressing deadline. After the long months of waiting, he felt a surge of adrenalin. I could gauge his gathering excitement in a growing tendency to resort to journalistic cliché. ‘I'm keen to get this monkey off my back,’ he told me. 14 Spilling the Beans ‘It always seems impossible until it is done.’ NELSON MANDELA Headquartered in one of Nairobi's most eccentric buildings – a zebra-striped, twin-pillar folly which bears more than a passing resemblance to a giant liquorice allsort, the Daily Nation is not Kenya's oldest newspaper. It is, however, its largest and its best, flagship of a vibrant media group whose radio studios, television stations and newspapers are sprinkled across Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya.

Finance and the Good Society
by Robert J. Shiller
Published 1 Jan 2012

But even there the system—which was deplored by Mahatma Gandhi and other spiritual leaders—is now declining. The same distaste for castes or their analogues was promoted by Vladimir Lenin in Russia, Kemal Atatürk in Turkey, Yukichi Fukuzawa in Japan, Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong in China, Eva Perón in Argentina, and Nelson Mandela in South Africa. These thought leaders couldn’t be more di erent from each other, but together they provide evidence of a worldwide trend that nds castes or their analogues repugnant. Just as these beliefs represent a trend toward greater social enlightenment, there is a parallel trend toward enlightenment about caste-analogues in the business world.

Confessions of an Eco-Sinner: Tracking Down the Sources of My Stuff
by Fred Pearce
Published 30 Sep 2009

He must already have known he was dying of cancer. He didn’t let on, but I had the sense of a man nearing the end of his life and wanting to set the record straight. Only a few months later, he announced that he had turned down chemotherapy in order to die a quicker death. The African adventure ‘started with a conversation with Nelson Mandela, when he was president of South Africa,’ Paul said. ‘We got into a discussion about why ecology was not high on the priority list of his government. He said he had other things to do first to help the poor, but I said the poorest people in Africa lived in the remotest areas, where his programmes on education and water and housing weren’t working.

Hope for Animals and Their World
by Jane Goodall , Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson
Published 1 Sep 2009

I’ve even been called “a public nuisance” because my NPR radio broadcasts, Field Notes with Thane Maynard and The 90-Second Naturalist, promote a sense of wonder about nature rather than a sense of gloom. And while I know that we live lives of unprecedented destruction, I am blessed to also know many great people effectively working (and most of them quietly) to save what they can. To me they are like Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, carrying on with their miracles that many others believe impossible. It is this same sort of passion that is represented in nearly every effective conservationist I have ever known. While the naysayers stand by wheezing and huffing and puffing about how “this will never work,” or “it’s too late to save this species or habitat,” or “be practical, we have to compromise with the developers,” it is the truly passionate conservationists who never give up.

Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech
by Geoffrey Cain
Published 15 Mar 2020

Jobs, 1955–2011: Redefined the Digital Age as the Visionary of Apple.” In some alternate universe, the loss of Apple’s guiding hand could be seen as good news for Samsung. But not here on earth, in our current universe. Techies and passionate Apple users exalted Jobs to the saintly pantheon of Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. “Outside the flagship Apple store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, people had left two bouquets of roses and some candles late Wednesday,” the Times reported. “By 11 P.M., the crowds gathering outside the store were thickening.” “Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes, the ones who see things differently,” a recording of Steve Jobs called out at his memorial.

The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
by Michael Scott Moore
Published 23 Jul 2018

I felt ornery enough to fight him, just out of my head enough to leap to my feet and do whatever damage I could, so it took a deliberate act of will to keep myself quiet on the floor and watch to see how far Bashko would let his temper carry him. Violence unprovoked by a physical threat was against the rules for these men, and to test their limit I had to “renew my anonymity,” or remove myself from the equation, mentally, so I could locate a fulcrum point between my temper and my self-control. Near the end of 2013, Nelson Mandela died, and the BBC’s coverage of his funeral lasted several days. The news electrified my guards. He was their hero, an African resistance leader who’d stood up to white supremacy. They sat there with rifles, like jailers, but identified with Mandela, who’d sat in jail. His greatness, of course, consisted in transcending both tribe and race, and the radio coverage led with his remarkable line from an interview after his release from prison in 1990.

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Published 14 Jun 2018

Treating it as such is an interpretive choice, and it is a choice that increases pain and suffering while preventing other, more effective responses, including the Stoic response (cultivating nonreactivity) and the antifragile response suggested by Van Jones: “Put on some boots, and learn how to deal with adversity.” In the quotation that opened this chapter, Nelson Mandela warned us against the danger of demonizing opponents and using violence against them. Like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other advocates of nonviolent resistance, Mandela noted that violent and dehumanizing tactics are self-defeating, closing off the possibility of peaceful resolution.

The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
by Paul Morland
Published 10 Jan 2019

The political institutions continue to bear the mother country’s stamp, as do important symbols like the flag (in Australia and New Zealand) and the head of state (in all three)–in other words, they continue to be predominantly ‘white’ countries. In contrast, the European presence in South Africa never became dominant against the presence of Africans–whether strictly ‘indigenous’ or more recent arrivals from neighbouring territories north of the Limpopo–and so the imprint of Europe has proved less permanent. In the year that Nelson Mandela was born, more than one in five South Africans was white. In the year he died, the figure was less than one in ten. Had the trend gone the other way, it seems unlikely that he would ever have become president of the republic and a numerically bolstered white population would probably have continued to hold on to a monopoly of power for longer.

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life
by George Monbiot
Published 13 May 2013

Monbiot is the author of the books Captive State, The Age of Consent, Bring on the Apocalypse, and Heat, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, and No Man’s Land. Among the many prizes he has won is the UN Global 500 award for outstanding environmental achievement, presented to him by Nelson Mandela. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2014 by George Monbiot All rights reserved. Published 2014. Printed in the United States of America 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20555-7 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-20569-4 (e-book) DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226205694.001.0001 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Monbiot, George, 1963– author.

Greater: Britain After the Storm
by Penny Mordaunt and Chris Lewis
Published 19 May 2021

For many others this was Britain’s key quality: ‘When you travel around the world, you realise that it’s the combination of the democratic traditions, culture and respect for fairness and justice that most characterises Great Britain.’ As evidence for this, panel members cited the actions of the British people as least as much as they talked about government policies: ‘the Live Aid concert, the actions to free Nelson Mandela and the Make Poverty History campaign’ and more. One panellist said, ‘It’s remarkable that in the historical records of social change it is the legislative and political parties’ role that is emphasised. The public agitation is ignored and yet this was often the most crucial part of the social changes that occurred.’

This Land: The Struggle for the Left
by Owen Jones
Published 23 Sep 2020

Williamson supported the war in Libya, Western airstrikes in Iraq in 2014, and refused to vote against Conservative workfare programmes in 2013 – hardly the stuff of Corbynism. But when he lost his seat in 2015, Williamson apparently re-invented himself as a revolutionary, his new political outlook proclaimed by a Twitter profile picture of Fidel Castro accompanied by Nelson Mandela. Re-elected in the 2017 general election, he returned to the House of Commons, positioning himself as the tribune of the membership. To the fury of fellow Labour MPs, he launched a ‘Democracy Roadshow’ to promote the party’s democratization, travelling to constituency Labour parties. This was interpreted by his colleagues as a ‘Deselection Roadshow’ to encourage the removal of anti-Corbyn Labour MPs, but for some grassroots members infuriated by attempts to undermine the leadership, it made him a champion.

The Powerful and the Damned: Private Diaries in Turbulent Times
by Lionel Barber
Published 5 Nov 2020

I had my first ever front-page byline. Twenty-two years later, I am on my way to South Africa, my first trip. The FT has a new correspondent, Alec Russell, a veteran Daily Telegraph foreign correspondent and the latest among my ‘transformational’ hires. Alec covered the transition from apartheid under Nelson Mandela. He remains on first-name terms with almost everyone who matters in the ruling African National Congress party. On my week-long tour I can watch Alec in action and learn a lot about a vitally important country and economy on the continent. There’s also the small matter of paying a weekend visit to my daughter, Francesca, who is spending a gap year teaching in a small village in neighbouring Botswana.

A Classless Society: Britain in the 1990s
by Alwyn W. Turner
Published 4 Sep 2013

All scheduled programmes on BBC One were dropped in favour of a rolling news show, Radio 4 and Radio 5 Live trod the same ground with a joint broadcast, while Radio 3 played only slow movements from popular works of classical music and Radio 1 only slow pop songs – for the first time in the latter station’s existence, it did not broadcast the chart show. ITV made the commercially painful decision to abandon all advertising, at least until the evening. Tributes were relayed from other revered figures – Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Margaret Thatcher – and interviews were given by the likes of David Mellor, demanding action against an intrusive press, while Jeffrey Archer and David Starkey drew comparisons respectively with the murder of John Kennedy in 1963 and the death of James Dean in 1955. The state of the nation was captured best on GMTV: ‘You might not believe this,’ said newsreader Anne Davies, sounding as though she couldn’t quite accept it herself, ‘but I’m afraid it is true.’

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More generally, however, the National Front’s slogan ‘Hang IRA Scum!’ found little or no support in a country fatigued by years of random atrocities. The conflict had become a seemingly inescapable part of British life, a running sore that disfigured the nation with no hope of healing. Yet change was in the air. In 1990 the world had watched Nelson Mandela walk free from jail after twenty-seven years of incarceration, and the expectation was that South Africa was on the brink of abandoning apartheid, just as Eastern Europe had chosen to turn away from communism. If such progress could be made elsewhere, the possibility surely existed too in Northern Ireland.

Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
by Anatole Kaletsky
Published 22 Jun 2010

Because economics is driven by both secular trends and cyclical patterns, we need to start by looking at both sets of forces separately and then consider how they interact. Only in this way can we properly understand why recent events happened and where they may lead. CHAPTER FOUR Annus Mirabilis Why did I free Nelson Mandela in February 1990? Because of the Berlin Wall. Once Communism collapsed in 1989, I felt sure that the ANC would abandon its revolutionary aspirations. This meant we had a chance to negotiate a peaceful end to Apartheid.1 —F.W. de Klerk, president of South Africa, 1989-94 You ask me why India broke out of the Hindu rate of growth in 1991.

The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security
by Deborah D. Avant
Published 17 Oct 2010

In this context, Executive Outcomes (EO), a company originally set up to train the apartheid South African Defense Forces (SADF), began to recruit from the restructuring army, particularly from special operations regiments.72 EO was attractive to those worried about what they perceived to be a politicized working environment in the restructuring army.73 Though some claim that Nelson Mandela’s government facilitated EO’s activities as a way of getting otherwise troublesome personnel busy outside of South Africa’s borders,74 others argue that PSC recruitment pulled competent soldiers from the army and put them in private companies rather than transforming their allegiance to the new government.75 Regardless, the ANC government had little trust in the rising number of South African PSCs.

The Rough Guide to Amsterdam
by Martin Dunford , Phil Lee and Karoline Thomas
Published 4 Jan 2010

Anne Frank was only one of about 100,000 Dutch Jews who died during World War II, but this, her final home, provides one of the most enduring testaments to its horrors and, despite the number of visitors, most people find a visit very moving. Her diary has been a source of inspiration to many, including Nelson Mandela and Primo Levi, who wrote the following: “Perhaps it is better that way [that we can concentrate on the suffering of Anne]; if we were capable of taking in all the suffering of all those people, we would not be able to live”. Due to the popularity of the Anne Frank Huis, the queues can be on the long side; try to come early or late to avoid the crush – or book a slot online and skip the queue altogether.

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
by William Easterly
Published 1 Mar 2006

Tragedies like that of the man in southern Uganda and Constance have happened many times over the past decades, and will happen many more times in the future. More than 2 million people in Africa died from AIDS in 2002. Their places in the epidemic were taken by the 3.5 million Africans newly infected in 2002. AIDS gets attention. Celebrities and statesmen—ranging from Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela to Bono and Ashley Judd—call for action. The anti-globalization activists also focus on AIDS. Oxfam calls for access to life-saving drugs for AIDS patients in Africa. American activists at international AIDS conferences (such as American health secretary Tommy Thompson at a conference in Barcelona in 2002) shout down anyone not responding with sufficient alacrity, pour encourager les autres.

The America That Reagan Built
by J. David Woodard
Published 15 Mar 2006

The new culture and global economy created a different order, one that a popular observer called ‘‘McWorld.’’9 Life in the new world order was a kind of global village, where everyone knew everyone else’s business. Americans watched nightly updates on Operation Desert Storm, followed by the election of Nelson Mandela in South Africa, and knew the intimate details behind the divorce of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. The decade was remembered as having moved slightly away from the more conservative 1980s, but keeping the same mindset. The world experienced a rapid progression of global capitalism following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Islands in the Net
by Bruce Sterling
Published 31 May 1988

“Azanian black people are the finest black people in the world!” They sat there sweating. Laura could not let it pass. “Look, I’m no big Yankee nationalist, but what about … you know … jazz, blues, Martin Luther King?” Selous shifted on her bench. “Martin King. He had a dinner party, compared to our Nelson Mandela.” “Yeah but …” “Your Yankee black people aren’t even real black people, are they? They’re all Coloureds, actually. They look like Europeans.” “Wait a minute …” “You’ve never seen my black people, but I’ve certainly seen yours. Your American blacks crowd all our best restaurants and gamble their global hard currency in Sun City and so on.… They’re rich, and soft.”

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
Published 13 Mar 2012

21 Can the artist simply tell religious Christians, “If you don’t want to see it, don’t go to the museum”? Or does the mere existence of such works make the world dirtier, more profane, and more degraded? If you can’t see anything wrong here, try reversing the politics. Imagine that a conservative artist had created these works using images of Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela instead of Jesus and Mary. Imagine that his intent was to mock the quasi-deification by the left of so many black leaders. Could such works be displayed in museums in New York or Paris without triggering angry demonstrations? Might some on the left feel that the museum itself had been polluted by racism, even after the paintings were removed?

Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase
by Duff McDonald
Published 5 Oct 2009

One thing he did was read what he wanted to—not what he had to read for work—something he’d had little time for in the past decade. He began to do so voraciously, knocking down about two books a week, primarily history. “History is humbling and inspiring,” he later told a reporter. “It puts you in your place.” He read biographies of Caesar, Alexander, Napoléon, Nelson Mandela, and ten U.S. presidents, including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. (Dimon’s reading taste runs to both business and history, but he’ll read just about anything, from the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant to Bill Bryson’s 2003 best seller A Short History of Nearly Everything. He admires Grant particularly, he says, for the lucidity of the man’s thinking.

Destined for War: America, China, and Thucydides's Trap
by Graham Allison
Published 29 May 2017

Instead, as he said, “I see the detention houses, the fickleness of human relationships. I understand politics on a deeper level.”4 Xi emerged from the upheaval with what Lee called “iron in his soul.”5 In what is surely the most unusual comparison anyone has ever made between Xi and another international leader, Lee likened him to Nelson Mandela, “a person with enormous emotional stability who does not allow his personal misfortunes or sufferings to affect his judgment.”6 Xi’s vision for China is similarly iron-willed. His “China Dream” combines prosperity and power—equal parts Theodore Roosevelt’s muscular vision of an American century and Franklin Roosevelt’s dynamic New Deal.

Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris
by Fodor's
Published 18 Apr 2011

Captivated by Carla Lucky for Sarkozy his best asset may be his popular wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy—the supermodel-turned-singer-turned–demure First Dame, whose every move is slavishly tracked by French magazines. The former bad girl has made headlines as much for her turns in the spotlight (performing for Nelson Mandela; signing on for a part in a Woody Allen film) as for her philanthropy (she’s an anti-AIDS ambassador; she has her own charitable foundation). The Italian-born Carla B holds considerable influence over her lovesick husband, and isn’t afraid to wield it. Sizing Up Despite a diet dripping in butter and fat, the French are among the world’s thinnest people, with one of the world’s longest life expectancies to boot.

Vultures' Picnic: In Pursuit of Petroleum Pigs, Power Pirates, and High-Finance Carnivores
by Greg Palast
Published 14 Nov 2011

Nice Vulture had let me in on the game because he thought I could find out if Straus kept a connection with Hamsah; or, if he is Hamsah. If Hamsah is in fact the hand of Straus, he’d suckered Greylock and every other holder into taking short money. And the ultimate suckers? The people of the United States and Europe who had responded to the heart-grabbing pleas of Bono and Nelson Mandela to pay off the murderous debt burden crushing Africans. Instead, the budgets for “debt relief” would be snatched by this hand called Hamsah. But what the heck does this have to do with Dr. Hermann? Hermann, said Hans, was a good guy, no Vulture at all. Oddly, though, Hermann seemed to defend the creep Straus, taking Straus’s side on details of the division of the spoils.

The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
by Paul Vigna and Michael J. Casey
Published 27 Jan 2015

The Everything Blockchain 10. Square Peg Meets Round Hole 11. A New New Economy Conclusion: Come What May Acknowledgments Notes Index Also by Michael J. Casey About the Authors Copyright Introduction DIGITAL CASH FOR A DIGITAL AGE Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will. —Nelson Mandela Even though Parisa Ahmadi was in the top of her class at the all-girls Hatifi High School in Herat, Afghanistan, her family was initially against her enrolling in classes being offered by a private venture that promised to teach young girls Internet and social-media skills—and even pay them for their efforts.

Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Published 1 Jan 2000

So this was my position—I would neither defend myself from him, nor would I fight him. For the longest time, against the counsel of all who cared about me, I resisted even consulting a lawyer, because I considered even that to be an act of war. I wanted to be all Gandhi about this. I wanted to be all Nelson Mandela about this. Not realizing at the time that both Gandhi and Mandela were lawyers. Months passed. My life hung in limbo as I waited to be released, waited to see what the terms would be. We were living separately (he had moved into our Manhattan apartment), but nothing was resolved. Bills piled up, careers stalled, the house fell into ruin and my husband’s silences were broken only by his occasional communications reminding me what a criminal jerk I was.

The Story of Stuff: The Impact of Overconsumption on the Planet, Our Communities, and Our Health-And How We Can Make It Better
by Annie Leonard
Published 22 Feb 2011

Thor documents, leaked to the South African organization Earthlife Africa, revealed that some workers had mercury concentrations in their urine hundreds of times higher than limits set by the World Health Organization. In 1992, three workers fell into mercury-induced comas and eventually died. The situation garnered international attention when Nelson Mandela visited one sick worker’s bedside in 1993.116 Local environmentalists in South Africa, including Earthlife Africa and the Environmental Justice Networking Forum, joined forces with Greenpeace International to publicize and stop this disaster. Protests and letter writing campaigns were organized to pressure the waste exporters and Thor in both the United Kingdom and South Africa.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by Rebecca Solnit
Published 31 Aug 2010

It was not the shelter at the center of the world, but all that was left: a prison. The world is much larger, and these other loves lead you to its vastness. We are often told of public and political life merely as a force, a duty, and occasionally a terror. But it is sometimes also a joy. The human being you recognize in reading, for example, Tom Paine’s Rights of Man or Nelson Mandela’s autobiography is far larger than this creature of family and erotic life. That being has a soul, ethics, ideals, a chance at heroism, at shaping history, a set of motivations based on principles. Paine writes that nature “has not only forced man into society by a diversity of wants that the reciprocal aid of each other can supply, but she has implanted in him a system of social affections, which, though not necessary to his existence, are essential to his happiness.

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
by Max Chafkin
Published 14 Sep 2021

Yarvin’s views would eventually harden into a full-blown ideology, “neo-reaction,” which included positions like the belief that climate science was largely a fraud perpetrated by elites; that inflationary currencies, like the U.S. dollar, are “diabolical”; and that genetic differences cause some groups to be “more suited to mastery,” while others (including Africans, he said) were “more suited to slavery.” Thiel, of course, subscribed to the first two views, if not the third. Yarvin also had views on apartheid similar to those ascribed to (though denied by) the undergraduate Thiel, and had compared Nelson Mandela to the Norwegian mass shooter Anders Breivik. Neo-reactionary thought came with its own vocabulary: To “red pill” someone meant to open their eyes to this new worldview. “The Cathedral” was the elite orbit occupied by government officials, the media, and, most of all, university professors. Thiel was also making connections with other far-right provocateurs.

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
by Kai-Fu Lee and Qiufan Chen
Published 13 Sep 2021

In this special place, people somehow magically put aside the conflicts of ethnicity and class, united with one another—and indulged together in the pleasure of alcohol. Today, he had come to say goodbye. The Afrika Shrine, old and new, enshrined Black gods and goddesses: Kwame Nkrumah, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Thomas Sankara, Nelson Mandela, Esther Ibanga, Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Florence Ozor…great souls who dedicated their lives to freedom, democracy, and equality. Performers, during their shows, would often pause and pay homage to these cultural ancestors. Quietly, Amaka engraved those faces one by one in his memory.

Protest and Power: The Battle for the Labour Party
by David Kogan
Published 17 Apr 2019

By April 1989, this fever of liberalism had spread to China and Gorbachev became the first Soviet leader to visit China since the 1960s. Students occupied Tiananmen Square for a month only to be crushed by Chinese Army tanks on 4 June 1989. In August that year, F. W. de Klerk became the State President of South Africa, leading to the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990. The Berlin wall opened in November 1989. It was incredible; the world had transformed. These were the most dramatic changes since the second world war. In Britain, 1989 saw the start of Margaret Thatcher’s hubris. She introduced the poll tax in Scotland, which was ultimately to be the main instrument of her downfall.

The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest
by Anatoli Boukreev
Published 16 Jul 1999

A Taiwanese expedition headed by Makalu Gau was the source of endless jokes, which thinly veiled serious concerns about his team’s qualifications and their ability to get off the mountain alive. One climber said, “I’d as soon have been on the mountain with the Jamaican bobsled team.” And then there was the Johannesburg Sunday Times Expedition, which had publicly been embraced by Nelson Mandela. Stories about the relative inexperience of many of their climbers and questions about the veracity of their wiry and short-tempered leader, Ian Woodall, were roundly exchanged over Henry Todd’s Scotch. American climber and Everest veteran Ed Viesturs was heard to say, “A lot of people are up here who shouldn’t be.”

Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
by Rose George
Published 22 Oct 2018

I don’t know his status and I don’t ask, but when he goes and does outreach, trying to get men to test, he tells them he is HIV-positive. It’s what activists used to do in the bad days. It is to shock them. You have it? A healthy man like you? In the entrance hall of the Khayelitsha office is a photograph of Nelson Mandela wearing a white T-shirt. In black letters, it reads HIV-POSITIVE. It had the same effect. You have it? Madiba? You? * * * HIV is hard to get. You will not hear this in public health messaging. Rates of transmission depend on many factors from geographical location to your preferred sexual position to how much viral load the infectious person has.

God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World
by John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
Published 31 Mar 2009

Many of America’s leading pastorpreneurs are focused on export. Take three of the figures we have already looked at in America. T. D. Jakes is probably as well known in Africa as he is in the United States. In the summer of 2006, when he preached to forty thousand in Atlanta’s Georgia Dome, inmates in South Africa’s Drakenstein Correctional Center, where Nelson Mandela was once incarcerated, got up at two a.m. to watch him perform.23 Indeed, Jakes says that Africa is where he feels most at home, outside his own country. In October 2005 he took four hundred followers, most of them black, with him to Kenya, including his church choir, political dignitaries, business leaders and fellow pastors.

First Time Ever: A Memoir
by Peggy Seeger
Published 2 Oct 2017

When you sing against the System, the March of the Issues never ends. Ewan concentrated on Margaret Thatcher, whose successive terms triggered a decade-long series of political earthquakes and destroyed decades of citizen-friendly legislation. I wrote songs about Reagan, Greenham Common, El Salvador, apartheid, Nelson Mandela and various strikes. In 1983, I discovered that nuclear waste chugged daily through our local train station. I discussed it with several of the mothers who stood at Kitty’s school gate. We formed BANG, the Beckenham Anti-Nuclear Group. It solidified with a few men and half a dozen older women, of whom my Irene was one.

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
by Simon Winchester
Published 19 Jan 2021

During the thirty-year rule of Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, there were many episodes of the forced confiscation of land from white farmers by so-called war veterans bent on what the government saw as retributive justice. Elsewhere on the continent, the redistribution of the immense expanses of potentially fertile countryside has met with similar problems, though seldom marked by such violence. In South Africa in 1998, Nelson Mandela enthusiastically championed the same kind of “willing-seller, willing-buyer” redistribution program that the British had supported in Zimbabwe; but it worked only fitfully, and since his death in 2013 there has been a clamor for a more robust program of restitution: expropriation without compensation being the phrase of today.

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
by Naomi Klein
Published 11 Sep 2023

I had no inside knowledge, but it’s slightly less weird when you consider that Campbell testified as a witness at the international war crimes trial of the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, over allegations that the notorious butcher had gifted Campbell a pouch of blood diamonds after they met at a dinner party hosted by Nelson Mandela. From which we can only conclude that once you reach a certain level of fame, wealth, and/or power, everyone takes one another’s calls. (It’s this intuitive awareness that elites occupy an interconnected world of their own, one where the laws governing the rest of us are shrugged off, that is the wellspring of today’s conspiracy singularity.)

It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO
by Felix Gillette and John Koblin
Published 1 Nov 2022

Until one night, years later, amid a dark Las Vegas gale, when the truth at last would wriggle free. CHAPTER 5 Quality Noise With each passing year, HBO’s original film department was growing darker, more Tyson-like in its delivery. From its inception, HBO had made a bunch of uplifting movies about men of high moral character, including biopics of Nelson Mandela, Edward R. Murrow, and Simon Wiesenthal. With time, HBO’s choice of historic figures grew more violent and misanthropic. “In the beginning, I wanted to make movies about heroes,” Michael Fuchs said. “We ran out of heroes very quickly. We started doing villains.” HBO subscribers reacted favorably to the darker material.

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms & a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
by Simon Winchester
Published 27 Oct 2009

On we pressed into the calm and sheltered expanse of the bay, passing a scattering of anchored ships, some waiting for a berth in the docks, or others rusty and most likely riding out their time in demurrage. To port lay Robben Island, where the colonial rulers had once kept their lepers securely isolated, and where the Afrikaaners did much the same for Nelson Mandela, though with rather less success. There used to be sheep and rabbits on Robben Island, the only ones in the entire continent, it used to be said with pride. Now only the rabbits remain, as pests, and in their thousands. We were easing very close now, and slowing. A sudden tom-tom of hammer blows could be clearly heard and we could see the sudden blue sparkle of welding torches, all from a new stadium being built on the waterfront.

Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making
by David Rothkopf
Published 18 Mar 2008

They wanted to hire some pros to help him with his “debate prep,” another term, like “war room,” “rapid response” (or “rapid rebuttal”), and “opposition research” that has made its way from the world of American pols to the world at large. Stanley Greenberg, whose firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner has worked on dozens of international campaigns, cites among his most prominent clients Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Tony Blair, Ehud Barak, and Gerhard Schroeder. In the connections among some of these is seen one fledgling trend that may gather momentum as such consultants and those associated with them fan out into an expanding network across the globe. Clinton, Blair, and Schroeder were all “new” voices for their center-left parties, and an effort was made among them to remain in touch, forming a kind of global “third way” alliance.

The River at the Centre of the World
by Simon Winchester
Published 1 Jan 1996

* The city housed the Nationalist government twice – once during the commonly remembered eight years from the fall of Nanjing in 1937 to the end of World War II and the Japanese defeat in 1945; and then again for three strange months at the end of 1949. When the Nationalists fled to Taiwan, they did so from Chongqing, after which the new capital was set up by the Communists in the city where it exists today – Beijing. * These days it is reckoned as politically incorrect to call Yang a warlord as it would be to use the word to describe Nelson Mandela or, indeed, George Washington. He could perhaps be more properly termed ‘a local political leader in command of a small and highly mobile army‘, and there were many like him. But in China few were motivated by ideology or much more than territorial greed. Mr Yang was not; he was no Mandela. He was, rather, a menace

Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
by Parag Khanna
Published 4 Mar 2008

In the name of pan-Africanism, he invited millions of African workers to come to Libya but then treated them like animals. Then he fought a fruitless decadelong war with Chad over the Aouzou Strip, along the border between the two countries, only to be humiliated in defeat. More recently he forged a friendship with South Africa’s Nelson Mandela to posture as a mediator of African conflicts (including Darfur) while demanding European reparations for colonialism to all African nations. Most significantly, Gaddafi’s sponsorship of the PLO and IRA, his complicity in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie in Scotland, and his blatant attempts to acquire nuclear weapons technology have all contributed to making Libya a founding member of America’s “state sponsors of terrorism” watchlist.

More: The 10,000-Year Rise of the World Economy
by Philip Coggan
Published 6 Feb 2020

The new wheat plants could be grown twice a year or alternated with rice; it became possible to get 2 tons of wheat and 3 tons of rice from an acre that had previously produced only half a ton of either. Borlaug received both the Nobel peace prize and the Congressional gold medal for his work, a combination reserved for the likes of Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela.45 Without the green revolution, Paul McMahon reckons that 2bn people might not be alive.46 In the late 1960s, doom-mongers were warning of world famines and “population bombs”, but while Asia’s population more than doubled from 1.9bn to 4.4bn between 1965 and 2015, cereal production tripled.

Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis
by Jared Diamond
Published 6 May 2019

Ideally, those models are friends or other people with whom you can talk, and from whom you can learn directly how they solved a problem similar to yours. But the model can also be someone whom you don’t know personally, and about whose life and coping methods you have merely read or heard. For example, while few readers of this book could have known Nelson Mandela, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Winston Churchill personally, their biographies or autobiographies have still yielded ideas and inspiration to other people who used them as models for resolving a personal crisis. 6. Ego strength. A factor that’s important in coping with a crisis, and that differs from person to person, is something that psychologists call “ego strength.”

Kingdom of Olives and Ash: Writers Confront the Occupation
by Michael Chabon
Published 29 May 2017

The message that came across was that Palestinians want to play soccer, but are not allowed to do so. The FIFA committee finally made it to the Palestinian territories in May 2016. It was headed by Mosima Gabriel “Tokyo” Sexwale, himself a fascinating character. A black South African from Soweto, he was a member of the ANC who had fought against apartheid and sat in jail alongside Nelson Mandela, and after apartheid had risen in the ranks of the South African government. His ambitions to replace Mandela as president were ultimately thwarted, and he started a successful career as a businessman in the diamond mining industry. He acquired his nickname in childhood after becoming a karate champion.

Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization
by Scott Barry Kaufman
Published 6 Apr 2020

Humble: They demonstrate “a sense of realistic humility about one’s own importance relative to the world at large, implying a relative lack of concern for one’s own ego.” Based on expert ratings of influential figures using these criteria, Frimer and his colleagues identified moral exemplars. The list of moral exemplars included Rosa Parks, Shirin Ebadi, Nelson Mandela, Mohandas Gandhi, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Dalai Lama, Martin Luther King Jr., Andrei Sakharov, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Eleanor Roosevelt. These individuals scored high on all five criteria as put forward by Colby and Damon. In contrast were highly influential figures ranging from “tyrants” such as Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong, who scored low on the principled/virtuous and humble dimensions but neutral on the remainder; to “sectarians” such as Vladmir Putin, Kim Jong Il, Eliot Spitzer, Donald Rumsfeld, and Mel Gibson, who scored low on all five moral dimensions; to “achievers” such as Marilyn Monroe, Bill Belichick, David Beckham, Condoleezza Rice, Hu Jintao, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who scored close to the neutral point on all moral dimensions.

As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
by Matthew Cobb
Published 15 Nov 2022

This protocol was rejected by the United States, which claimed that inspections on US soil would threaten the country’s biodefence and pharmaceutical sectors. The Convention remains toothless. The relative weakness of the BWC is shown both by the Soviet example and by South Africa, which developed a programme called Project Coast that was revealed only in 1996, two years after Nelson Mandela became president.40 From 1981 onwards, the apartheid government, which had signed up to the BWC from the very beginning, sought to develop weapons that could be used against individuals or crowds, under the leadership of Wouter Basson, later known in South Africa as ‘Doctor Death’. The Project Coast production facility, Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, was privatised in 1991 but went bust in 1994 under a cloud of rumour and claims of misappropriation.

The Companion Guide to London
by David Piper and Fionnuala Jervis
Published 2 Jan 1970

It was erected in 1843 and intended for William IV but there was no money. The present policy is to place modern sculpture there over the millennium, one work a year for three years, and a Committee has been appointed to find a permanent successor; suggestions have ranged from Emily Pankhurst and Nelson Mandela to Red Rum. The roll of statues actually in the Square is completed outside the National Gallery by George Washington, sword put aside in favour of his walking stick, and by one of the best bronzes in London, James II. Although again affected in costume, in Roman kilt and laurel wreath, this has an easy, charming, elegance; Grinling Gibbons was paid for it, but the Flemish sculptor Quellin may have had a considerable hand in it.

Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Published 9 Mar 2000

The perils ofnational liberation are even clearer when viewed externally, in terms ofthe world economic system in which the T H E D I A L E C T I C S O F C O L O N I A L S O V E R E I G N T Y 133 ‘‘liberated’’ nation finds itself. Indeed, the equation nationalism equals political and economic modernization, which has been her- alded by leaders ofnumerous anticolonial and anti-imperialist strug- gles from Gandhi and Ho Chi Minh to Nelson Mandela, really ends up being a perverse trick. This equation serves to mobilize popular forces and galvanize a social movement, but where does the movement lead and what interests does it serve? In most cases it involves a delegated struggle, in which the modernization project also establishes in power the new ruling group that is charged with carrying it out.

The end of history and the last man
by Francis Fukuyama
Published 28 Feb 2006

With the passing of much of the old guard in the ruling Guomindang party, there has been growing participation by other sectors of Taiwanese society in the Nationalist Parliament, including many native Taiwanese. And finally, the authoritarian government of Burma has been rocked by prodemocracy ferment. In February 1990, the Afrikaner-dominated government of F. W. de Klerk in South Africa announced the freeing of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of the African National Congress and the South African Communist party. He thereby inaugurated a period of negotiations on a transition to power sharing between blacks and whites, and eventual majority rule. In retrospect, we have had difficulty perceiving the depths of the crisis in which dictatorships found themselves due to a mistaken belief in the ability of authoritarian systems to perpetuate themselves, or more broadly, in the viability of strong states.

Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America
by Greg Farrell
Published 2 Nov 2010

There was one other thing, Wise said: O’Neal needed at least one meeting in Cape Town on December 31 to justify a stopover with the corporate jet. Henderson leaned on the managing directors in Merrill’s Johannesburg office to come up with a few meetings for the boss. He was thus able to put together a business itinerary for O’Neal, and even arranged for the first African-American CEO on Wall Street to visit with Nelson Mandela, the legendary apartheid opponent who had helped bring a peaceful end to white rule in South Africa. By generating a work-related premise for the African safari vacation, O’Neal was able to fuse the family adventure with a legitimate business trip, underwritten in part by Merrill Lynch shareholders.

Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st Century
by Tom Bower
Published 1 Jan 2009

By then, Saro-Wiwa’s fate had become an international issue. Across America and Europe he was portrayed as the victim of Shell’s conduct, and the company was accused of polluting the Ogoni farmlands and of failing to protest against the rigged trial while financing the government’s destruction of the delta. President Clinton, Nelson Mandela and other international leaders protested to Abacha. The World Bank, church leaders, Greenpeace, Amnesty International, PEN, the International Writers’ Association and even members of the Royal Geographical Society demanded that Shell abandon its operations in Nigeria. The opprobrium spread across all of Big Oil.

2312
by Kim Stanley Robinson
Published 22 May 2012

Genette was still working on the problem of Ernesta Travers, for instance, which thirty years before had troubled them all with the fundamental question of why their friend Ernesta had engineered a disappearance from Mars, as well as how; it was a case Jean could pursue in exile, and from time to time did, but Travers was still as absent as if she had never existed. Same with the puzzle of the prison terrarium Nelson Mandela, a locked-room mystery if ever there was one, as the asteroid seemed to have afforded no ingress or egress for whoever had brought in the fatal gun. Mysteries like that abounded in the system; it was part of the affect realm of the balkanization, many felt, but balkanization per se was not enough to explain some of these mysteries, and the inspector remained puzzled and more—transfixed, existentially confused, frustrated—by their aura of impossibility.

To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
by Evgeny Morozov
Published 15 Nov 2013

Leaders, like hierarchies, are seen as a burden, as something that “the Internet” has eliminated—only to make political struggle more effective. Alec Ross, a senior State Department official who oversees technology and innovation, is very optimistic about the Arab Spring. “If you think about revolutionary heroes of the past—whether it was Lech Walesa in Poland or Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic or Nelson Mandela in South Africa—we don’t see those kinds of figures in these revolutions taking place in the Middle East right now and that is in part because the Internet has distributed leadership.” Or could it be that we simply didn’t see those figures because Hosni Mubarak’s government had been systematically jailing and torturing its opponents, often with Washington’s tacit approval?

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van Der Kolk M. D.
Published 7 Sep 2015

I can’t begin to imagine how I would have coped with what many of my patients have endured, and I see their symptoms as part of their strength—the ways they learned to survive. And despite all their suffering many have gone on to become loving partners and parents, exemplary teachers, nurses, scientists, and artists. Most great instigators of social change have intimate personal knowledge of trauma. Oprah Winfrey comes to mind, as do Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, and Elie Wiesel. Read the life history of any visionary, and you will find insights and passions that came from having dealt with devastation. The same is true of societies. Many of our most profound advances grew out of experiencing trauma: the abolition of slavery from the Civil War, Social Security in response to the Great Depression, and the GI Bill, which produced our once vast and prosperous middle class, from World War II.

The Enemy Within
by Seumas Milne
Published 1 Dec 1994

But, for the Tory Prime Minister in particular, the survival of ‘King Arthur’ – albeit scarred, bloodied and presiding over a much-diminished kingdom – was a permanent affront and a constant reminder of a job uncompleted.41 The Scargill myth remained as stubbornly strong as ever, despite the decimation of the NUM leader’s industrial and political base. He was far and away Britain’s best-known union leader, both at home and abroad: the trade-union movement’s one and only celebrity. It is hard to imagine the then South African president and African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, for example, talking about any other British union official as a ‘workers’ hero, respected by progressives of all continents’. Scargill’s popularity among trade-union and Labour Party activists remained high and his power to sway labour-movement audiences unchallenged. As one exponent of 1980s-style ‘new realist’ business unionism wrote in the wake of the collapse of the 1990 campaign: ‘Few people could have survived the pounding that Mr Scargill has taken … Mr Scargill is not only surviving, but thriving … By any logical standards, he is a busted flush.

Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
by John Darwin
Published 12 Feb 2013

For the next fifty years the Mfengu were to serve as British auxiliaries in the Cape’s frontier wars, and to take their reward in cattle and land. The Mfengu were quick to take advantage of mission education and the skills it provided. By the late nineteenth century, they settled as far afield as Kimberley and Rhodesia (modern Zimbabwe). Within the Cape Colony, they formed an African elite. ‘When I was a boy,’ remembered Nelson Mandela (a Xhosa), ‘the amaMfengu were the most advanced section of the community, and furnished our clergymen, policemen, teachers, clerks and interpreters. They were also among the first to become Christians … they confirmed the missionaries’ axiom that to be civilised was to be Christian and to be Christian was to be civilised.’66 The Mfengu were loyalists, but their loyalty was not blind.

Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W. Said
Published 29 May 1994

The debate continues until today among historians in Europe and the United States. Were those early “prophets of rebellion,” as Michael Adas has called them, backward-looking, romantic, and unrealistic people who acted negatively against the “modernizing” Europeans,16 or are we to take seriously the statements of their modern heirs—for example, Julius Nyerere and Nelson Mandela—as to the continuing significance of their early, usually doomed efforts? Terence Ranger has shown that these are matters not simply of academic speculation, but of urgent political moment. Many of the resistance movements, for instance, “shaped the environment in which later politics developed; … resistance had profound effects upon white policies and attitudes; … during the course of the resistances, or some of them, types of political organization or inspiration emerged which looked in important ways to the future; which in some cases are directly and in others indirectly linked with later manifestations of African opposition [to European imperialism].”17 Ranger demonstrates that the intellectual and moral battle over the continuity and coherence of nationalist resistance to imperialism went on for dozens of years, and became an organic part of the imperial experience.

Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East
by Robin Wright
Published 28 Feb 2008

Yet the fledgling agents of change are a stubborn lot. Syria is a wrenching example. Shortly before leaving for Syria, I went to the Beirut home of a Syrian dissident to view a homemade documentary, filmed secretly in Damascus, about Riad al Turk. Turk is the Old Man of Syrian opposition. Syrians call him their Nelson Mandela because of his noisy and unwavering resistance to authoritarian rule and his long incarceration. Turk was imprisoned four times, the total a bit shorter than Mandela’s twenty-seven years. But the conditions were significantly tougher. Mandela at least had a trial. The subtle film is about Turk’s third prison stint.

Peggy Seeger
by Jean R. Freedman

“Naming of Names,” also called “We Remember,” is an elegiac listing of twentieth-century activists, a text that Peggy describes as, “one of those songs that can be constantly updated.”66 The list is international and heavily weighted toward revolutionaries who died or were imprisoned for their acts: Ernst Thaelmann, Joe Hill, James Connolly, Patrice Lumumba, Victor Jara, Nelson Mandela, César Sandino, Karen Silkwood, Rosa Luxemburg. Ewan was no doubt proud of the list, but he did not sing it on the recording. Peggy and Jade sang “Naming of Names” in a stately call-and-response style, and the leading voice was not Peggy's but Irene's.67 Peggy never told Ewan of her relationship with Irene, and Ewan never confronted her, but Peggy believed that he guessed.

Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom
by Norman Finkelstein
Published 9 Jan 2018

It is about what has been done to Gaza. It is fashionable nowadays to speak of a victim’s agency. But one must be realistic about the constraints imposed on such agency by objective circumstance. Frederick Douglass could reclaim his manhood by striking back at a slave master who viciously abused him. Nelson Mandela could retain his dignity in jail despite conditions calibrated to humiliate and degrade him. Still, these were exceptional individuals and exceptional circumstances, and anyhow, even if he acquits himself with honor, the elemental decisions affecting the daily life of a man held in bondage and the power to effect these decisions remain outside his control.

Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
by Thomas L. Friedman
Published 22 Nov 2016

Since the age of accelerations involves a change in the physical, technological, and social environment for so many people, leadership today is about nurturing the right cultural attitudes and specific policy choices that best enable the mimicking of Mother Nature’s killer apps. The power of a visionary leader to help a society and culture navigate its way through big moments requiring adaptation is beautifully depicted in one of my all-time favorite movie scenes. The film Invictus tells the story of how Nelson Mandela, in his first term as president of South Africa, enlists the country’s famed rugby team, the Springboks, on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup and, through that, to start the healing of that apartheid-torn land. The almost all-white Springboks had been a symbol of white domination, and blacks routinely rooted against them.

Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
by Daron Acemoğlu and James A. Robinson
Published 28 Sep 2001

Throughout the 1950s, the ANC continually contested in the streets and in the law courts the policies of the NP. In one such demonstration in Sharpeville in 1960, a riot exploded and police fired into the crowd, killing eighty-three people. After this incident, the government moved to finally eradicate the ANC and, in 1964, Nelson Mandela and other top leaders were imprisoned on Robben Island. Despite losing much of their leadership to South African prisons or exile, the ANC continued to be the focus of opposition to the regime. The NP pressed ahead with its goal of creating independent homelands (or bantustans), where all Africans would be citizens.

Appetite for America: Fred Harvey and the Business of Civilizing the Wild West--One Meal at a Time
by Stephen Fried
Published 23 Mar 2010

The shell of the Montezuma—which was used as a seminary from 1937 to 1972, and then sat vacant for nearly a decade—was purchased by billionaire Armand Hammer’s foundation in 1981. It became a hulking Victorian backdrop for the new buildings of the American campus of Hammer’s pet project, United World Colleges (UWC), an ambitious international program for high school students, now prominently supported by Queen Noor of Jordan, Prince Charles of England, Nelson Mandela, and other world leaders. Then in 2001, the UWC spent $10.5 million to dramatically restore the old building and make it the cornerstone of the educational retreat. You can arrange to tour the hotel’s luxurious public spaces, although the creaky third-floor turret, which offers a breathtaking view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is off-limits to anyone but the staff and the occasional student who sneaks up there.

The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow
by Gil Troy
Published 14 Apr 2018

Born in Montreal in 1940, educated at McGill University and Yale University, Cotler served as a professor of law at McGill and directed its Human Rights Program from 1973 until he was elected to the Canadian Parliament in 1999. For decades he crisscrossed the globe, defending Andrei Sakharov and Anatoly Scharansky in the Soviet Union, Nelson Mandela in South Africa, Jacobo Timmerman in Argentina, Muchtar Pakpahan in Indonesia, and many other dissidents. Serving as Canada’s minister of justice and attorney general from 2003 to 2006, Cotler championed indigenous rights. Once, when meeting with aboriginal—First Nations—law students, Cotler said the rabbis taught that true love comes from knowing what hurts the other.

The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland
by Ali Winston and Darwin Bondgraham
Published 10 Jan 2023

When elected in 2006, Dellums was viewed by many in the Black community as a reprieve from Jerry Brown’s eight-year reign, during which the Riders ran roughshod over West Oakland, the OPD was placed under court oversight, reforms floundered, and communities of color were left behind as their superstar mayor courted real estate developers to remake downtown. Drafted by a Black/progressive coalition, at first blush, Dellums’s victory promised a new radical era for city politics. As a congressman, he had played a small but key role in helping Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress topple apartheid in South Africa and was a steady voice of conscience against state violence, from police brutality to nuclear weapons. Furthermore, he had impeccable pedigree: his uncle, C. L. Dellums, was an iconic labor activist with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the local NAACP chapter, and many other civil rights organizations.5 But Ron Dellums’s shy style of governing led to a perception that he was an absentee mayor.

Lonely Planet Switzerland
by Lonely Planet

Hotel AllegroBUSINESS HOTEL€€ ( GOOGLE MAP ; %031 339 55 00; www.kursaal-bern.ch; Kornhausstrasse 3; s/d from Sfr189/278; aiW) Cool and modern, this curved sliver of a building across the river from the Old Town offers excellent views from its front rooms, along with multiple fine dining and drinking spaces. The 7th-floor penthouse suite is an ode to Paul Klee. oBellevue PalaceLUXURY HOTEL€€€ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %031 320 45 45; www.bellevue-palace.ch; Kochergasse 3-5; s/d from Sfr329/440; pW) For many years this was Bern’s only five-star hotel and the guest list has included bigwigs from Nelson Mandela down. It’s gilded, polished, sashed and swathed, and suitably discreet, with classic period antiques and service that will make you feel like royalty. Don't turn up looking shabby unless its shabby-chic. oHotel SchweizerhofBOUTIQUE HOTEL€€€ ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %031 326 80 80; www.schweizerhof-bern.ch; Bahnhofplatz 11; s/d from Sfr289/329; paiW) This classy five-star offers lavish accommodation with excellent amenities and service.

When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Rise of the Middle Kingdom
by Martin Jacques
Published 12 Nov 2009

But the ubiquity of the white role-model in so many spheres - business, law, accounting, academe, fashion, global political leadership - still overwhelmingly prevails. Figures like Barack Obama and Tiger Woods remain very much the exception, though the former’s election as American president is highly significant in this context. Nelson Mandela came to enjoy enormous moral authority throughout the world but enjoyed little substantive power. With the rise of China, white domination will come under serious challenge for the first time in many, if not most, areas of global activity. The pervasive importance of racial attitudes should not be underestimated.

The Idea of Decline in Western History
by Arthur Herman
Published 8 Jan 1997

“Garveyism” also reached far beyond the United States. The Negro World and collections of Garvey’s speeches and editorials resonated with educated and nationalist-minded African youth in a way that the more staid and old-fashioned Du Bois never did. Kenneth Kuanda of Zambia, Harry Thuku of Kenya, and Nelson Mandela of South Africa were all directly or indirectly influenced by Garvey’s doctrines.* Another leader, Kwane Nkrumah of Ghana, would later write, “The book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was the Philosophy of Marcus Garvey.” This was ironic, since Nkrumah would serve as the final role model for Garvey’s bitterest enemy, W.E.B.

The Rough Guide to Florence & the Best of Tuscany
by Tim Jepson , Jonathan Buckley and Rough Guides
Published 2 Mar 2009

The €9 “membership” fee gets you down into the medieval brickvaulted basement, where the atmosphere’s informal and there’s live music most nights. Mon night is usually a jam session. Cocktails are good, and you can also snack on bar nibbles and focaccia. Mon–Fri 9pm–2am, Sat 9pm–3am. Closed July & Aug. Nelson Mandela Forum Viale Pasquale Paoli 3 T055.678.841, Wwww.mandelaforum.it. Along with the Saschall and Tenax (see p.199), this 7000-capacity hall – located at Campo di Marte – is the city’s main venue for big-draw mainstream acts, such as Lenny Kravitz and Zucchero. Bus #3 takes you there. Festa delle Rificolone The Festa delle Rificolone (Festival of the Lanterns) takes place on the Virgin’s birthday, September 7, with a procession of children to Piazza Santissima Annunziata, where a small fair is held.

Switzerland
by Damien Simonis , Sarah Johnstone and Nicola Williams
Published 31 May 2006

Nicer than its central sister, the Ador, it’s only a short bus ride from the train station. Take bus No 12 to Mittelstrasse to get there. Hotel Allegro (%031 339 55 00; www.allegro-hotel .ch; Kornhausstrasse 3; s/d with views from Sfr250/290, without views Sfr215/255, ste from Sfr600; ain) Cool TOP END Bern’s power brokers, and international statesmen like Nelson Mandela, gravitate towards Bern’s only five-star hotel. Near the parliament, and recently renovated, it’s the address to choose if you need to impress. Rates are cheaper on weekends. Eating www.lonelyplanet.com AUTHOR’S CHOICE Schwellenmätteli (%031 350 50 01; Damaziquai 11; meals Sfr18-55; h9am-11pm) ‘Bern’s Riveria’ announces a sign near these two very classy restaurants on the Aare, and the experience certainly shouldn’t be missed.

Bali & Lombok Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

There's a good range of restaurants, beachside cafes, bars where you can get a pizza and maybe hear some music, or fun places that defy description. oGlobal Village KafeCAFE ( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; %0362-41928; Jl Raya Lovina, Kalibukbuk; mains from 15,000Rp; h8am-10pm; W) Che Guevara, Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela are just some of the figures depicted in paintings lining the walls of this artsy cafe. The baked goods, fruit drinks, pizzas, breakfasts and much more are excellent. It has a welcoming, mellow vibe. There's free book and DVD exchanges plus a selection of local handicrafts. Watch for art-house movie nights.

Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
by Ian Black
Published 2 Nov 2017

On the surface, the atmosphere seemed promising; unusually, Olmert’s Annapolis speech contained a strikingly empathetic acknowledgement of Palestinian suffering, with even his fiercest critics wondering briefly if this marked the emergence of an Israeli De Klerk, the South African president who had released Nelson Mandela and negotiated the peaceful end of apartheid. ‘Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation, bitterness, and a deep, unrelenting sense of humiliation,’ he declared. ‘I know that this pain and this humiliation are the deepest foundations which fomented the ethos of hatred toward us.

The Rough Guide to Paris
by Rough Guides
Published 1 May 2023

The roof itself, though, feels anything but light – its sheer size and weight feel oppressive as you walk under – a far cry from the original, elegant glass structures created by Victor Baltard in response to Napoléon III’s request for ‘a covering as light as an umbrella’. The 2016 redevelopment also included the landscaped gardens (Jardin Nelson-Mandela), a library, a music and arts conservatoire and, perhaps most significantly, a hip-hop performance and workshop space, La Place http://laplace.paris, the first of its kind in the capital and in part an acknowledgement of the popularity of Les Halles with the banlieusards – the young people who come in from the housing estates in the suburbs.

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
by Steve Coll
Published 27 Feb 2024

He was drawn to memoirs and biographies of historical leaders. It became common in the West to take pointed note of Saddam’s evident fascination with Joseph Stalin, the ironfisted Soviet ruler who presided over show trials and about a million political executions. Yet Saddam was also interested in Nelson Mandela, Jawaharlal Nehru, Josip Tito, Mao Zedong, George Washington, and Charles de Gaulle. He read fiction, including the novels of Naguib Mahfouz. In his late twenties, he read and admired Ernest Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea; he was attracted to the heroic—in literature, in the history of other nations, and in the story of Iraq, whose ancient and modern glories he celebrated with great verve.

Lonely Planet London City Guide
by Tom Masters , Steve Fallon and Vesna Maric
Published 31 Jan 2010

Among the most important documents here are the Magna Carta (1215); the Codex Sinaiticus, the first complete text of the New Testament, written in Greek in the 4th century; a Gutenberg Bible (1455), the first Western book printed using movable type; Shakespeare’s First Folio (1623); manuscripts by some of Britain’s best-known authors (eg Lewis Carroll, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy); and even some of the Beatles’ earliest handwritten lyrics. You can hear historic recordings, such as the first one ever, made by Thomas Edison in 1877, James Joyce reading from Ulysses and Nelson Mandela’s famous speech at the Rivonia trial in 1964, at the National Sound Archive Jukeboxes, where the selections are changed regularly. The Turning the Pages exhibit allows you a ‘virtual browse’ through several important texts including the Sforza Book of Hours, the Diamond Sutra and a Leonardo da Vinci notebook.

The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease
by Lanius, Ruth A.; Vermetten, Eric; Pain, Clare
Published 11 Jan 2011

The goal and moral imperative of the next decade must be to mitigate the effects of early life trauma through a major public health response that focuses on prevention and effective intervention. If successfully accomplished, this will be a major public health advance of our time and alleviate the tremendous suffering and costs associated with the devastating effects of adverse childhood experience. Nelson Mandela said “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” We are idealistic enough to believe he is right! References 1. Felitti, V. J., Anda, R. F., Nordenberg, D., Williamson, D. F., Spitz, A. M., Edwards, V., Koss, M. P. and Marks, J. S. (1998). Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults.

Hunger: The Oldest Problem
by Martin Caparros
Published 14 Jan 2020

If we have made advances toward containing and eradicating those afflictions, why do we struggle to do so for world hunger? We’ve tried, we continue to try, but we’ve failed, and we continue to fail. In June 2019, in a lecture given before the Food and Agricultural Organization, Graca Machel, the widow of Nelson Mandela, stated the world was nowhere near achieving a global goal to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030 because decision-makers are not held to accunt. “We are not doing enough on the pace and level of investment,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation after her lecture, “and we’re not going to get there.”

The Rough Guide to Norway
by Phil Lee
Published 25 Nov 2013

With the overhead lights dimmed down, the stalks make a sort of miniature electrical forest, which really looks both effective and very engaging. As for the winners of the Peace Prize themselves, there are many outstanding individuals – Martin Luther King, Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and Willy Brandt to name but four – but some real surprises too, notably Theodore Roosevelt, who was part of the American invasion of Cuba in the 1890s, and the USA’s Henry Kissinger, who was widely blamed for destabilizing Cambodia in the 1970s, his award prompting a leading comedian of the day to announce that political satire was dead.

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama
Published 29 Sep 2014

Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia served for twenty-seven years, Mobutu for thirty-two, Jomo Kenyatta for fourteen, Sékou Touré of Guinea for twenty-six, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana for fifteen, Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia for seventeen, Paul Biya of Cameroon for thirty-two, Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea for thirty-five, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda for twenty-seven, and Eduardo dos Santos of Angola for thirty-five (Biya, Obiang, Museveni, and dos Santos are still in power, as of this writing). Among the reasons that Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa, stood out among revolutionary African political leaders was the fact that he voluntarily relinquished the presidency after a single five-year term. A second characteristic of African neopatrimonialism was massive use of state resources to cultivate political support, which resulted in pervasive clientelism.

The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (Hardback) - Common
by Alan Greenspan
Published 14 Jun 2007

I n the midst of such Washington melodramas, it was sometimes easy to forget that there was a real world out there in which real things were happening. That summer, flooding from the Mississippi and Missouri rivers paralyzed nine midwestern states. NASA astronauts went into orbit to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. There was a failed coup against Boris Yeltsin, and Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize. There were disconcerting outbreaks of violence in the United States: the bombing of the World Trade Center, the siege at Waco, and the killing and maiming of scientists and professors by the Unabomber. In corporate America, something called business-process reengineering became the latest management fad, and Lou Gerstner began an effort to turn around IBM.

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
by Edward Chancellor
Published 31 May 2000

Intercontinental 7 Chemin du Petit-Saconnex geneva.intercontinental.com. Vast Sixties high-rise out near the UN, the favoured choice of politicos and visiting international delegations. Cosy decor softens the generic interior but world-affairs formality is the tone. Previous guests include King Hussein of Jordan, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela and a good handful of US presidents. Fr.Fr.Fr. Kipling Manotel 27 Rue de la Navigation manotel.com. Three-star hotel that offers a touch of airy, exotic class in the heart of the Pâquis: rooms are styled with some care, with rich fabrics and dark woods. Fr.Fr.Fr. Montbrillant 2 Rue du Montbrillant montbrillant.ch.

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017
by Ian Kershaw
Published 29 Aug 2018

W. de Clerk, also became ready to negotiate with the African National Congress once it was deprived of Soviet backing and the threat of communist revolution in southern Africa had consequently receded. The release from prison, where he had been incarcerated for twenty-seven years, on 11 February 1990 of Nelson Mandela, internationally lauded as the face of opposition to the racist apartheid regime in South Africa, was symbolically the moment of new hope for the future. But with the demise of the Soviet Union a number of African states – and, in Latin America, Cuba – lost a protector (of sorts) and a source of financial support.

The Rough Guide to Switzerland (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 24 May 2022

Intercontinental 7 Chemin du Petit-Saconnex geneva.intercontinental.com. Vast Sixties high-rise out near the UN, the favoured choice of politicos and visiting international delegations. Cosy decor softens the generic interior but world-affairs formality is the tone. Previous guests include King Hussein of Jordan, Fidel Castro, Nelson Mandela and a good handful of US presidents. Fr.Fr.Fr. Kipling Manotel 27 Rue de la Navigation manotel.com. Three-star hotel that offers a touch of airy, exotic class in the heart of the Pâquis: rooms are styled with some care, with rich fabrics and dark woods. Fr.Fr.Fr. Montbrillant 2 Rue du Montbrillant montbrillant.ch.

The Rough Guide to South America on a Budget (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 1 Jan 2019

Kitchenettes in some rooms are a bonus for self-caterers. €91 Le Dronmi 42 Av du Général de Gaulle 594 31 77 70, ledronmi.com; map. A brothel in a previous incarnation, this trendy and central hotel is just a few staggers from a lively watering hole. It has flat-screen TVs and kitchenette; breakfast included. €95 Hôtel Ket Tai 72 Blvd Nelson Mandela 594 28 97 77, g.chang@wanadoo.fr; map. Brazilian telenovelas in the lobby, friendly service and compact, featureless, tiled rooms with struggling a/c. If every other hotel in town is full, there’s a good chance you can still find a bed here. €60 French Guiana tours If you wish to explore Guiana‘s jungle and rivers, virtually the only way to do so is to join an organized excursion, although it‘s cheaper to hire local guides by asking around.

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Fri 9pm–1am (check Facebook page for next event). Directory Banks and exchange ATMs along Av du Général de Gaulle; there are half a dozen at the post office at the avenue's east end. Change Caraïbes offers good exchange rates at 68 Av du Général de Gaulle (Mon–Fri 7.30am–12.30pm & 3–5.45pm, Sat 8am–11.45pm). Car rental Avis, 68 Blvd Nelson Mandela (594 30 25 22); Budget, 55 Zone Artisanale Galmot (594 35 10 20). Embassies and consulates Brazil, 444 Chemin Saint-Antoine (594 296 010); Suriname, 3 Av Leopold Héder (594 282 160); UK, Honorary British Consul, 16 Av du Président Monnerville (594 311 034). Hospital Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne Andrée Rosemon, 3 Av des Flamboyants (594 395 050, ch-cayenne.fr).

This Sceptred Isle
by Christopher Lee
Published 19 Jan 2012

Mr President, my hopes centre in the perpetuation of the British connection which in my belief is a guarantee of the advancement of my country and of her future greatness . . . one thing is certain – if those who have come to this conference go back to India without the Parliament of Britain making it clear that the minimum constitutional demands of India will be conceded, not only will this conference have been held in vain, but I am much afraid that such a fiasco would strengthen beyond measure the extremist party in India. The 1931 round table was the first of three. The third, in 1933, mattered most – although Gandhi never would accept dominion status. There is an illusion that Gandhi brought about the independence of India and the end of the British Raj. He did not. To say that he did is like saying Nelson Mandela brought about the end of apartheid in South Africa. What can be said is that, like Mandela, Gandhi became the symbol of change. Gandhi did not even achieve what he set out to do. There was no peaceful change at the end of British rule. There was no return to a national identity in 1947 – whatever that could ever have meant in a sub-continent of perhaps 400 million people with different religions and castes along with fourteen languages and as many as 200 dialects.

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
by Steven Pinker
Published 13 Feb 2018

Depending on their sympathy or antipathy for communism, they were propped up by the Soviet Union or the United States under the principle “He may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch.”37 The 1990s and 2000s saw a spread of democracy (chapter 14) and the rise of levelheaded, humanistic leaders—not just national statesmen like Nelson Mandela, Corazon Aquino, and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf but local religious and civil-society leaders acting to improve the lives of their compatriots.38 A third cause was the end of the Cold War. It not only pulled the rug out from under a number of tinpot dictators but snuffed out many of the civil wars that had racked developing countries since they attained independence in the 1960s.

The Rough Guide to New York City
by Rough Guides
Published 21 May 2018

Madiba 195 Dekalb Ave, at Carlton Ave 718 855 9190, madibarestaurant.com; subway C to Lafayette Ave, or G to Fulton St; map. Half the fun of this South African restaurant is its ambience – the tin tables come in all sorts of colours, tapestries and art hang wherever you look, and bright paintings of Nelson Mandela rub elbows with soda bottles repurposed as chandeliers. The menu is flavourful and authentic: bobotie with curried mince, almonds and yellow rice ($17), oxtail stew ($24) and pumpkin fritters ($7). A neighbourhood institution, the patio positively buzzes in good weather. You might even spy Beyoncé.

Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends
by Uma Anand Segal , Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas
Published 19 Jan 2010

They are, it seems, really refugees, expelled by economic processes.’’ According to the World Bank the countries surrounding South Africa, with the exception of Namibia and Botswana, are among the poorest in the world (World Bank, 1999). Many of these migrants trek to South Africa due to the changed political climate. It was assumed that since President Nelson Mandela’s government had taken over, the country was overflowing with economic opportunities. Surveys conducted by SAMP have suggested that the majority of migrants have no intention of settling permanently in South Africa (Mattes et al., 1999). Reitzes (1997) has similarly argued that migrants were transient and wanted to commute across borders rather than to live permanently in South Africa.

Lonely Planet Morocco (Travel Guide)
by Lonely Planet , Paul Clammer and Paula Hardy
Published 1 Jul 2014

Djellabar BAR, RESTAURANT OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP ( 0524 42 12 42; 2 Rue Abou Hanifa, Hivernage; cocktails Dh100; 7pm-2am) If you’ve been to a branch of Buddha Bar, you’ll be familiar with the playful pop-art, fusion menu and fashion-forward crowd at Claude Challe’s newest venture. Challe’s Maroc n’Roll style works a treat in this converted stucco-tastic 1940s wedding hall with an eye-popping zellij -backed bar, snakeskin loungers and a collection of portraits sporting fez-wearing icons from Marilyn Monroe to Nelson Mandela. Check out its Facebook page for impromptu private sales and events. Reservations required. Dar Cherifa CAFE OFFLINE MAP GOOGLE MAP ( 0524 42 64 63; 8 Derb Chorfa Lakbir; tea & coffee Dh20-25; noon-7pm) Revive souq-sore eyes at this serene late-15th-century Saadian riad near Rue el-Mouassine, where tea and saffron coffee are served with contemporary art and literature downstairs, or terrace views upstairs.

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
by Robert Tressell
Published 31 Dec 1913

Television play, Give Us This Day: The Life and Times of Robert Tressell, directed by Phil Mulloy, broadcast. Falklands War. Alan Bleasdale, The Boys from the Blackstuff. Stephen Lowe’s stage adaptation of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. Famine in Ethiopia. Gorbachev calls for glasnost and perestroika. Anglo-Irish Agreement. Berlin Wall falls; collapse of Communist Eastern Europe begins. Nelson Mandela freed. Collapse of Soviet Union. South Africa repeals Apartheid laws. Gulf War. Manuscript of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, now held at London Metropolitan University, professionally conserved and microfilmed. Mandela elected president of South Africa. Waterstone’s Bookshop public poll places The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists 62nd among 4,600 nominated best- loved novels of the twentieth century.

Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman
Published 31 Oct 2013

Instead, Hamel and Prahalad argued for an approach that recognized the major transitions in industrial structure then underway, acknowledged the interplay of economics with politics and public policy, and involved those charged with executing strategies in their original design.23 Hamel’s explicitly revolutionary turn came two years later. Although the medium was the Harvard Business Review, Hamel invoked Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and even Saul Alinsky. Corporations, he argued, were reaching the limits of incrementalism. Everything now was at the margins, so there might only be a bit extra market share and a bit less cost, a bit faster response to customers and a bit more quality.24 Hamel assumed his audience would not be satisfied with just getting by.

Central Europe Travel Guide
by Lonely Planet

Hotel Landhaus HOTEL $$ ( 031 331 41 66; www.landhausbern.ch; Altenbergstrasse 4; dm from Sfr33, d from Sfr160, without bathroom from Sfr120; ) Backed by the grassy slope of a city park and fronted by the river and Old Town spires, this historic hotel oozes character. Its soulful ground-floor restaurant, a tad bohemian, draws a staunchly local crowd. Bellevue Palace HOTEL $$$ ( 031 320 45 45; www.bellevue-palace.ch; Kochergasse 3-5; s/d from Sfr360/390; ) Bern’s power brokers and international statesmen such as Nelson Mandela gravitate towards Bern’s only five-star hotel. Near the parliament, it’s the address to impress. Cheaper weekend rates. Hotel National HOTEL $ ( 031 381 19 88; www.nationalbern.ch, in German; Hirschengraben 24; s/d Sfr100/140, without bathroom from Sfr60/120; ) The quaint, charming National wouldn’t be out of place in Paris, with its wrought-iron lift, lavender sprigs and Persian rugs over creaky wooden floors.

The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by Laurie Garrett
Published 31 Oct 1994

Like their counterparts throughout the Western world, U.S. physicians tended to view the TB risk for people with HIV as a Third World problem. They were partly right; tuberculosis was an enormous, and escalating, problem in the developing world. In 1990 Africa’s most famous contemporary hero, Nelson Mandela, developed acute tuberculosis during his twenty-sixth year of imprisonment. Spitting up blood during the bitter Cape Town winter, Mandela was gravely ill. At the age of seventy at the time, Mandela fit three classic risk groups for active tuberculosis: elderly, living in cramped, densely populated quarters, and black.

England
by David Else
Published 14 Oct 2010

Located in the town hall, the tourist office (01234-221712; www.bedford.gov.uk/tourism; Town Hall, St Paul’s Sq; 9am-4.30pm Mon-Sat & 10am-2pm Sun May-Aug, 9.30am-5pm Mon-Sat Sep-Apr) stocks a free guide to places with a Bunyan connection, and runs free guided walks on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings between May and August. If you’re visiting in July 2010, you can join the festivities at the Bedford River Festival, a bi-annual event featuring theatre, dance, music, historic re-enactments, rowing and Dragon Boat racing. Sights Want to know just how Glenn Miller, Ronnie Barker and Nelson Mandela are connected to the area? Start your sightseeing with a trip to the Bedford Room at the tourist office for a potted history of the town. The Bunyan Meeting Free Church (01234-213722; www.bunyanmeeting.co.uk; Mill St; 10am-4pm Tue-Sat Mar-Oct) was built in 1849 on the site of the barn where Bunyan preached from 1671 to 1688.

1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, Updated Ed.
by Patricia Schultz
Published 13 May 2007

Opened in 1991, the National Civil Rights Museum established the nation’s first comprehensive exhibit chronicling America’s civil rights movement. In the spirit of King’s legacy, each fall the museum’s Annual Freedom Awards honor distinguished individuals who have fought for justice, peace, and human rights. Among past honorees are Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton, Bono, and Oprah Winfrey. A series of lectures and special programs are planned each year in conjunction with the awards ceremonies, with some of these star-studded events free and open to the public. WHERE: 450 Mulberry St. Tel 901-521-9699; www.civilrightsmuseum.org.

The Rough Guide to France (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides
Published 1 Aug 2019

The roof itself, though, feels anything but light – its sheer size and weight feel oppressive as you walk under – a far cry from the original, elegant glass structures created by Victor Baltard in response to Napoléon III’s request for “a covering as light as an umbrella”. The redevelopment includes landscaped gardens (Jardin Nelson-Mandela), a library, a music and arts conservatoire and, perhaps most significantly, a hip-hop performance and workshop space, La Place (laplace.paris), the first of its kind in the capital and in part an acknowledgement of the popularity of Les Halles with the jeunes de banlieue – the young people who come in from the housing estates in the suburbs.

Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
by Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig
Published 14 Jul 2019

We should be willing to accept boxes that are off by a few pixels, because the ground truth boxes won't be perfect. The evaluation score should balance recall (finding all the objects that are there) and precision (not finding objects that are not there). Figure 27.13Faster RCNN uses two networks. A picture of a young Nelson Mandela is fed into the object detector. One network computes “objectness” scores of candidate image boxes, called “anchor boxes,” centered at a grid point. There are nine anchor boxes (three scales, three aspect ratios) at each grid point. For the example image, an inner green box and an outer blue box have passed the objectness test.