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UNESCO on Saturday (July 27) added to its World Heritage list a village where Nelson Mandela grew up and the site of an apartheid-era massacre among the sites in South Africa that are milestones in the struggle to end white minority rule. The massacre was the 1960 massacre in Sharpeville, …

A company will auction in the coming days a request for an arrest warrant issued against former South African President Nelson Mandela in 1961. This major auction will be organized in Cape Town and online by Momint. The person who will inquire about this arrest warrant will not have it …

Late South African president FW de Klerk, who died at 85 last week, will be cremated in a private ceremony on Sunday, his foundation has announced. “The FW de Klerk Foundation wishes to announce that FW de Klerk’s cremation and funeral will take place on Sunday, 21 November,” it said …

Frederik Willem de Klerk, the South African apartheid-era President, has been diagnosed with cancer. The announcement has been done by his foundation. It said the former president was found with “mesothelioma, which is a cancer that affects the tissue that lines the lungs”. Mr De Klerk, the last white man …

Police in South Africa have arrested 15 people for alleged corruption relating to the funeral of the former president, Nelson Mandela, in 2013. Those arrested include the health minister of Eastern Cape province, Sindiswa Gomba, a number of business figures, and other lawmakers from the governing African National Congress. Among …