Word: mandelas
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...most foreign leaders traveling to South Africa, dropping in on Nelson Mandela is the equivalent of meeting the Queen in London--a task both customary and pleasant. But for President Bush's visit to the country on July 8, a session with the world's most sanctified icon of social justice "is not on the schedule," a senior White House official tells TIME. This is probably no oversight. The former South African President is, after all, among the most persistent and vitriolic critics of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy...
...occasional ham-fistedness with endearing sincerity. Through 27 albums, their songs of protest and peace have touched on everything from human rights to China's social contradictions to the aspirations of ordinary Hong Kongers. One of their most famous songs, 1990's Days of Glory, is about Nelson Mandela: "Today there's only a battered body left to welcome the days of glory/ Holding on tight to freedom." For many of Hong Kong's apolitical youth, it was the first time they had heard of the South African leader...
...European Heroes (TIME Europe, April 28), 36 amazing people - some famous, most not - who provoke, inspire and generally make the world a better place. Not all of our heroes could make the event; British football star and freelance style icon David Beckham had to meet with Nelson Mandela in South Africa instead. But it was quite a night. Liam Gallagher of Oasis came by to pick up an award on behalf of the Who's Roger Daltrey, who has helped build eight hospital wards for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust. (Daltrey made a gracious speech by video from...
DIED. WALTER SISULU, 90, steadfast, low-profile crusader against apartheid who, with close friend Nelson Mandela, led the African National Congress (A.N.C.), co-founded its Youth League and engineered the struggle for South African democracy; in Soweto, South Africa. Sisulu, who recruited Mandela into the A.N.C. and later served as his trusted adviser during Mandela's presidency, spent a quarter-century with Mandela in the Robben Island prison. The son of a construction worker and a maid, he inspired reverence among inmates with his teachings and strength. "It was not possible to despair," he said after his release. "The spirit...
Died. Walter Sisulu, 90, South African political activist, chief strategist of the African National Congress (ANC) and longtime jail mate of Nelson Mandela; in Johannesburg. Sisulu, son of a black domestic worker and a white railwayman, was a founding member of the ANC's armed wing. In 1963 a group of antigovernment activists were tried for planning acts of sabotage and antiapartheid revolution, for which Sisulu and Mandela were sentenced to life imprisonment. Sisulu spent the next 25 years incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island. "He has not been honored the way some of us have been... nevertheless, he stood...