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Zambia’s High Commissioner to India, Judith Kapijimpanga, has presented a memento to Zambia’s First Republican President Kenneth Kaunda from Gandhi Smriti, a museum, where India’s icon Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated from. The memento was first presented in New Delhi, India, when the Zambian High Commissioner held a day’s exhibition in honour of Dr. Kaunda’s contribution to Africa and global peace efforts, at a function that attracted diplomats from Malawi, Tanzania and the academia. Speaking when she presented the memento to the First Republican President at his residence yesterday, Mrs Kapijimpanga said the younger generation should know that Dr. Kaunda also immensely contributed to the release of South Africa’s former and late President Nelson Mandela, from Robbin Island prison. ....
We could do our part to seek the world as it should be. when president obama visited south africa this summer, mandela was so ill, the two were unable to meet. still mandela s inspiration played large during the president s trip. president obama returned to robbin island, but this time he brought his entire family. there was something different about bringing my children. and malia is now 15. sasha is 12, and seeing them stand within the walls that once surrounded nelson mandela, i knew this was an experience that they would never forget. i knew that they now appreciated a little bit more the sacrifices that madiba and others had made for freedom. reporter: soon off the leader s death was announced, obama said he could not imagine ....
On robbin island. it would take another 27 years of violence and injustice before the inevitable would happen. do you believe in apartheid? i believe according to god s will that the white race should be preserved. with south africa s white minority under international sanctions, internal political pressure and decline of the communist threat, mandela was released from prison in 1990. in 94, he was elected president of the new, free south africa. there have been very few figures in the entire history of the world as revered or as important as nelson mandela. but the question is, what happens next? johannesburg or joburg or ....
The institutionalized racial discrimination was designed to maintain white minority power and economically suppress the black and mixed race south africans who lived in townships, mostly in poverty. in 1923, the african national congress was formed. by 1961, it had been radicalized by the influence of a young nelson mandela, among others, and formed an armed wing called the spear of the nation. do you see africans being able to develop in the country without the europeans being pushed out? we have made it very clear in our policy that south africa is a country of many races. there is room for all the various races. in 1963, mandela was charged with sabotage and conspiracy and sentenced to life imprisonment on robbin island. ....
Region to continue the mediation efforts. and next hour i will have a chance to talk to ambassador dan gillerman, who s a former israeli ambassador to the united nations, and get his take on how these talks are going. snerk. president obama continues his trip to south africa. he and his family toured that island prison, robbin island, where freedom fighter nelson mandela spent nearly 20 years inside that tiny cell as a political prisoner as he fought apartheid. that is where the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero develop those lung problems that continue to plague him now, putting him in the hospital, leaving him at this moment in critical condition in pretoria. he s been in that hospital the last three weeks. greg polcott streaming live from pretoria. greg, how s hisndition? reporter: hey, eric. we re just outside the hospital where nelson mandela is. he s been there for 23 days in that condition. critical but stable. ....