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Press release: Brand South Africa commemorates Dakar Talks
South Africa’s Unesco World Heritage Sites
The oldest visible meteor crater on earth. The island prison that held Nelson Mandela. The remains of an ancient African city state. Evidence of the earliest humans, and the richest and most beautiful collection of cave paintings south of the Sahara. South Africa is home to eight Unesco World Heritage Sites.
Freedom fighters: names you might not know
Robert Sobukwe: ‘There is only one race. The human race.’
Mandela: a life in books
There are plenty of books about Nelson Mandela – written by himself, by people who knew him and by historians and journalists. Taken together, they tell a story of a life that towers above others, yet also reveal the more private experiences of the great man.
Nelson Mandela: leader among leaders
Kathrada wants to live on South Africa’s Robben Island
Robben Island to turn to solar power
Google takes world on a tour of Robben Island
The day Nelson Mandela walked out of prison
Twenty-five years ago today, on 11 February 1990, Nelson Mandela walked out of jail and into a South Africa on the verge of becoming a new, transformed nation. We recall the events of that historic day.
