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February 11 1990: Mandela’s media conquest
Nelson Mandela’s release from prison was also South Africa’s first ‘media event’. And, despite the NP’s, and the SABC’s, attempt to control the narrative, the force of Madiba’s…
Bid to settle Mars could solve Earth’s crisis
Africa must be part of developing technology that may make inhabiting the Red Planet possible and help the continent survive climate change
DA’s ‘street fighter’ to tone it down
In his run for the post of party leader, John Steenhuisen says he will respect any outcome.
To the Moon and back: 50 years on, a giant leap into the unknown
It was not until Donald Trump came to office that the US would decide to return to the Moon, under the Artemis program, named for Apollo’s twin sister
What has Obama’s presidency really accomplished?
Barack Obama’s ascent to power had meaning, but now his interventions are too rare and too piecemeal to constitute a narrative, writes Gary Younge.
JFK: A conspiracy of echoes
Theories about the death of John F Kennedy are in overdrive as the 50th ?anniversary of his death approaches — even John Kerry is weighing in.
Why the JFK story can never really be put to bed
The 50th anniversary of the killing of America’s 35th president has renewed the spotlight on the events in Dallas on November 22 1963.
Politicians forget about the future
Our planet urgently needs to be saved from our leaders’ present state of fatal short-termism.
Anniversaries from ‘unhistory’
The way we remember the past often illuminates what we choose to forget.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin to be auctioned in Los Angeles
For the John F Kennedy-assassination conspiracy junkie who has everything: Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin. Body not included.
US Senator Kennedy, liberal giant, buried
Senator Edward Kennedy, the liberal champion of the US Senate who carried on the political legacy of his slain brothers.
Growing up in the White House fishbowl
In less than a week’s time Malia and Sasha Obama will move into one of the world’s most coveted residences, thrust back into the global spotlight.
Clinton draws rebuke over assassination remark
Hillary Clinton mentioned the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in explaining on Friday why she had resisted calls to end her White House bid, drawing a rebuke from…
US Senator Kennedy has malignant brain tumour
Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, the brother of assassinated president John F Kennedy and the elder statesman of American liberal politics, has a malignant brain tumour, his…
Marilyn Monroe sex film to be kept private
A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for ,5-million, the…