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Other lives: Human rights lawyer who consulted with Nelson Mandela when he was imprisoned on Robben Island, and later left his mark in mediation

Netflix has put its viewers in a real-life Black Mirror episode

I was shocked to learn that the famous South African writer Athol Fugard had passed away. I had known his age to be 92 but somehow I never expected him to die. He was always a survivor.

The billionaire and now Trump adviser grew up amid the collapse of white rule, attending an all-white school and then a more liberal one

This Mandela Effect trivia will have you questioning things you were sure about. The Mandela Effect refers to collective false memories—this happens when large groups of people recall events or details that don’t match how they occurred. The term originated from some people falsely remembering Nelson Mandela dying in prison…

South African playwright whose work dealt with the injustices and absurdities of the apartheid era

A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island

Others awarded the title include Sir Billy Connolly and the late Nelson Mandela.

A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile, prison or faraway work during decades of white minority rule