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An auction of more than 100 of former South African president Nelson Mandela’s personal items has been suspended. The auction, which was scheduled for 22 February, was to include the sale of the late statesman’s ID book and several other personal items.
The national identity document of the late South African statesman, Nelson Mandela, is expected to fetch as much as R1,4m during an auction next month, after his daughter overcame the government’s attempts to stop her from selling it off.
South Africa has demanded a halt to an auction of the key to the prison cell on Robben Island once occupied by former President Nelson Mandela.
And indeed, in person, he was famously courteous and deferential. No airs and graces – and no easy retirement – for a man who could easily have basked in his hard-earned reputation as a pivotal figure in South Africa’s long struggle against apartheid.
Veteran South African anti-apartheid activist Denis Goldberg, who was tried alongside Nelson Mandela, has died at the age of 87.
The daughter of former president Nelson Mandela has tweeted that she is heartbroken following Thursday’s State of the Nation Address (SONA).
Former president Jacob Zuma has used his lecture on the role of the ANC Youth League (ANCYL) to defend the legacy of the country’s founding president, the late Nelson Mandela, while lashing out at those in the party who are “selling out”.
Beyonce was leading an all-star line-up including Ed Sheeran, Jay-Z and Usher in Johannesburg at a concert to honour the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela.
An anonymous buyer has paid R450 000 for “The Night Watch!”, also known as “Dead Mandela”, a painting that eight years ago caused a storm of outrage. It depicts political leaders attending an autopsy on the body of Nelson Mandela, who was frail but alive at the time.
US intelligence agencies continued to monitor Nelson Mandela as a potential Communist menace even after he was released from prison.