The Latest Breaking News from Winnie Mandela

The legacy of the activist, ANC politician and wife of Nelson Mandela has growing appeal, despite her refusal to apologise for crimes

In the mid-1980s he invited Angela Davis, Winnie Mandela, Jesse Jackson and Ray Charles to talk to communities across the country. Thus began an enormous, ongoing, consciousness-changing event

Two South African brothers have spent seven years developing a show about Nelson Mandela’s younger, radical years. We talk to the makers and stars of the show

Other lives: Veteran of the anti-apartheid movement, first in South Africa, then in exile in London

The world, for the most part, is organised on dynastic principles. Part of the rationale of capitalism is that wealth, and all that comes with it, cascades down the generations. Our laws sweep aside impediments to that succession. If your parents are rich, you’re highly unlikely to end up poor.