#Nelson Mandela - 14 posts

In honor of Nelson Mandela Day, I present Johannes Maswaganyi's fantastic Mandela sculptures and 67 of the cutest baby sweaters ever knitted.

An account of my quick visit to the Nelson Mandela Capture Site, which commemorates Mandela's 1962 arrest in Howick, KwaZulu Natal.

Yesterday evening I arrived in Bloemfontein, a small city in South Africa’s Free State Province, with a bunch of other bloggers and photographers. It was …

Nelson Mandela died one year ago today. I hadn’t planned to post anything about this anniversary. But suddenly in the middle of this afternoon, Mandela …

A couple of weeks ago I was in Pretoria at the Union Buildings – South Africa’s equivalent of the American White House – and saw the new …

Nelson Mandela was buried yesterday (Sunday), and South Africa’s official period of mourning came to an end. After listening to the funeral on the radio …

I’ve been invited to be a Gauteng Tourism Authority ambassador. I don’t think I’ve ever been an ambassador for anything before so this is …

As the entire world knows, Nelson Mandela died last night. “Tata” is the Xhosa word for father. Nelson Mandela is often referred to as “Tata …

"…no one can blame brave just men for seeking justice by the use of violent methods; nor could they be blamed if they tried to create an organised …

A while back I told you about a mystery monument, covered in a black tarp, in front of Chancellor House in downtown Jozi. The mystery monument in February, just …

A tour through Alexandra Township, Johannesburg's oldest (and perhaps most poorly understood) township.

UPDATE (March 2017): I wrote this post six years ago, at a time when I was pretty clueless about life in South Africa and how to write about it. I regret the …