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Francesca Albanese, told an audience at the University of Cape Town on Monday evening that universities, corporations and states have a legal and ethical responsibility to halt what she described as genocide taking place in Gaza. (Nelson Mandela Foundation)

UCT hosts key address as Albanese prepares to present Gaza genocide report to UN

The UN special rapporteur said her report identifies 48 entities linked to ‘displacement and replacement’, a policy she says has taken Palestinians off their land

UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Occuopied Territories, Francesca Albanese addressed a packed Groote Kerk in Cape Town om SUnday afternoon, 26 October 2025. Photo: David Harrison

Francesca Albanese to present report on the Gaza genocide

The UN special rapporteur will present her report “Gaza Genocide: Collective Crime” to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, from Cape Town

Plight of children: Human rights lawyer, Francesca Albanese,  Photo: Supplied

UPDATED: Francesca Albanese: The world is watching its conscience collapse

Delivering the annual Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, the UN special rapporteur said the laws created to stop states from destroying each other were now being used to justify that…

Law and justice: Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, is in South Africa to deliver the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture on Saturday. Photo: Nelson Mandela Foundation

‘I’m not here to make you comfortable’, says UN’s Francesca Albanese

The UN envoy says South Africa is central to the global fight against the genocide in Gaza

Former US president Barack Obama.
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LIVESTREAM: Watch the 16th annual Mandela lecture

Barack Obama delivers the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

The Gender in Dialogue discussion takes place at the University of Cape Town

Watch: Gender in Dialogue talk convened by Graca Machel

The Gender in Dialogue discussion takes place at the University of Cape Town, starting at 10am. Watch it live.

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu with UN High Commissioner Mary Robinson.

Robinson speaks of SA’s good and bad at Mandela lecture

South Africa had to realise its opportunities before its humanity would to fully emerge, Mary Robinson said at the Annual Nelson Mandela lecture.

President Jacob Zuma.

Khaya Dlanga: Zuma’s high school oral about Mandela

After listening to the president’s speech at the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, Khaya Dlanga pleads with him not to deliver a high school oral again.

Mandela lecture: Remorse and reconciliation

Mandela lecture: Remorse and reconciliation

Author Ariel Dorfman said on Saturday that former enemies in both post-apartheid SA and in Chile must show remorse for past wrongs.