Fikile Mbalula calls Bafana losers, President Jacob Zuma gives politicians a R45-million pay hike, and a tiny rabbit in Madiba’s ear causes a stir.
More interesting than party membership is the extent to which Marxism informed Mandela’s political thinking, writes Paul Trewhela.
Ideologists with cast-iron theories don’t like unpleasant facts, writes Stephen Ellis.
M&G readers comment on comparisons of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, and say we need cool heads when it comes to pharmaceutical drugs.
Some South Africans have taken to Twitter in an attempt to save the rabbit etched in the statue of Nelson Mandela at the Union Buildings.
Shoprite has reportedly lost millions when it closed its doors on December 15 as a sign of respect following the passing of president Nelson Mandela.
Madiba’s daughter Makaziwe Mandela has responded with questions after AbaThembu’s Daludumo Mtirara accused her of being ignorant, says a report.
After being blamed for booing Jacob Zuma, the Gauteng ANC has redeemed itself at the ruling party’s provincial manifesto launch in Atteridgeville.
The arts department says it will investigate if a rabbit was put into the bronze statue of former president Nelson Mandela at Union Buildings.
Readers share their views on Mandela legitimising Cecil John Rhodes’s legacy, anti-gay laws and the history of the ANC.
Nelson Mandela may have served briefly on the SACP’s central committee, but that didn’t make him a member, writes Hugh Macmillan.
As questions are raised about Madiba’s SACP membership, the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s Verne Harris finds answers in the former president’s words.
Accusations that the ANC suppressed its history and that the Nelson Mandela Foundation was part of the cover-up has raised the organisation’s ire.
An American student has filed a lawsuit against the CIA to unearth the exact level of the agency’s complicity in the 1962 arrest of Nelson Mandela.
As a nation, we need to fulfil and embody the promise that the likes of Reverend Tiyo Soga and former president Nelson Mandela saw in our country.
A film based on Nelson Mandela’s autobiography is expected to rake in millions in Europe, say its producers.
The Africa Rising Foundation has urged the public to ignore a cyber-scam illegally using the name of former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson Ndaba.
If President Jacob Zuma was hoping to leave the booing at Nelson Mandela’s memorial behind him with the rest of 2013, he is in for a rude surprise.
The ANC’s key statement of principles, the 1955 Freedom Charter, was written by white communists, writes Stephen Ellis.
It was a year filled with Nkandla, e-tolls, the Guptas and the death of a great man. What’s next, asks Gus Silber.
The number of visitors to the Nelson Mandela Museum in Qunu has spiked over the past two weeks, according to the institution.
Madiba’s family are reported to have been fighting over his estate and wanting to evict Graça Machel amid renewed infighting over family leadership.
No member of the Mandela family may intimidate former president Nelson Mandela’s widow Graça Machel, says the AbaThembu royal family.
Israeli Mossad agents operating in Ethiopia in 1962 unwittingly trained Nelson Mandela in hand-to-hand combat, weaponry and sabotage.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation quashed reports that the former president received training from Israeli agents in 1962.
The AbaThembu royal family is outraged about the statement by Winnie Madikizela-Mandela that Makaziwe Mandela is now the head of the Mandela family.
The ANC has welcomed the release of a task team report on Nkandla but taken exception to comparing the upgrade costs to previous administrations.
We asked readers to share with the M&G where they were when they heard the news of Nelson Mandela’s passing and how they paid tribute to Madiba.
The NEF says 12 000 jobs were "sustained" during the production of "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom". But that claim’s false, according to Africa Check.
A period of what should have been deep reflection and remembrance became the Twitterisation of a South African icon, writes Eve Fairbanks.
"Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom" has received two more nominations, this time at the London Critics Circle Film awards.
Desmond Tutu has slated the ANC’s exclusion of Afrikaners from Nelson Mandela’s funeral, saying it would have appalled Madiba.