Editorial
The year 2018 is significant on the global calendar, as we celebrate the birth of Nelson Mandela exactly 100 years ago. Mandela – the lawyer, the political activist, the prisoner, the peacemaker and finally the president – started an armed resistance movement, Umkhonto we Sizwe (“Spear of the Nation”) to fight against apartheid. Following his […]
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