Word: mandelas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University of Michigan, which has divested of all South Africa-related stock, last week refused to grant an honorary degree to imprisoned South African activist Nelson Mandela because university by-laws stipulate that recipients must accept the award in person, The Michigan Daily reported...
...Free South Africa Coordinating Committee (FSAC), which spearheaded the drive to award Mandela a degree, has vowed to continue their efforts. "We intend to come back again in the fall, more resolute than ever to pressure the University into granting Mandela an honorary degree," the group told the Daily...
FSAC will hold an alternate graduation ceremony at 10 a.m. on May 3, prior to the actual commencement exercises, in order to give Mandela their own unofficial honorary degree...
Children danced triumphantly at the door of the small red brick house in Soweto, the sprawling black township outside Johannesburg. Neighbors and friends greeted its famous resident with joyous tears and welcoming hugs. For the first time in nine years, Winnie Mandela, a leading antiapartheid activist and the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, enjoyed a privilege that most take for granted: the right to enter her own home...
Since 1962 Mandela has lived under various banning orders restricting her activities. In 1977 she was banished from her Soweto house to Brandfort, in a remote area of the Orange Free State. When unknown arsonists fire bombed her residence there last August, Mandela blamed the government, defiantly returned to Soweto and challenged her banning restrictions in court. Following moves by some courts to invalidate banning orders recently, a government prosecutor last week announced that the state was abandoning its efforts to enforce the restrictions on Mandela. Though technically the ban had not been lifted, no attempts were made to prevent...