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Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, returned to South Africa on Wednesday after spending six days in an Israeli prison after the Global Sumud Flotilla was intercepted last Thursday.  (Busi Lethole/M&G)
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Freed SA activists call on governments to take more action against Israel

The group returned to South Africa on Wednesday after being detained in an Israeli prison for six days

The South African flotilla activists, Mandla Mandela, Fatima Hendricks, Zaheera Soomar, Zukiswa Wanner, Reaaz Moola and Carrie Shelver have safely arrived in Jordan after being kept in an Israeli prison, Dirco confirms.

SA flotilla activists arrive in Jordan after being held captive in Israel

The group is due to arrive in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning

The six South Africans who were captured by Israel while part of the Global Sumud Flotilla last week are set to return home on Tuesday

Gaza flotilla sails on despite attacks

Along with drone attacks, the fleet faces a political campaign to delegitimise it

Israeli digital diplomat David Saranga is using sub-national forms of diplomacy to make inroads into South African society. (David Saranga/X)

Israel’s quiet power play in South Africa’s rural heartlands

Israeli digital diplomat David Saranga is using sub-national forms of diplomacy to make inroads into South African society

Inkosi Mandla Mandela recalled the years when his country was an outcast, kept alive by global solidarity. Now, he said, the same must be done for Palestine. Photo: Hasina Kathrada

Mandla Mandela urges same global support for Palestine that helped free SA from apartheid

Nelson Mandela’s grandson addressed hundreds of people from over 40 countries at the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, a civilian mission aiming to deliver humanitarian aid to…

Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa. Photo: Hasina Kathrada

From SA to Gaza. A young activist carries on family tradition of fighting oppression

Nurain Saloojee comes from a family that opposed apartheid in South Africa

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. (Hasina Kathrada)

UPDATE: Greta Thunberg accuses governments and corporations of enabling Gaza atrocities

The Swedish activist spoke from a flotilla of boats carrying doctors, lawyers, activists, organisers and social media influencers attempting to take medicine and infant milk to…

The Samud Flotilla consists of boats from 47 countries and is a symbol of steadfastness against Israel’s occupation and the genocide in Gaza. Photo: Tan Safi/Freedom Flotilla Coalition

UPDATED: South Africans sail with largest civilian flotilla to Gaza

The convoy is carrying baby formula, antibiotics, bandages and staple foods and will test whether Israel’s blockade will again choke civilian access to the Strip

Former Ingonyama Trust Board Chairman, Jerome Ngwenya.

Suspended Ingonyama Trust Board staff battle to clear their names

Despite being reinstated, staff members have not been compensated for their ordeal

Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister Thoko Didiza has finally appointed a full nine-member Ingonyama Trust Board, which will be headed by King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini’s nominee, Thanduyise Mzimela.

Ingonyama Trust Board is unaccountable: Parliament

Land Reform Minister Thoko Didiza says a new board will be in place by mid-January

Mandla Mandela, Member of Parliament and grandson of former South African President Nelson Mandela, speaks after demonstrators from a variety of political parties and social movements marched through the city centre in Cape Town, on May 12, 2021 during a protest against Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza as violence escalated between the bitter rivals sparked by unrest at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound. (RODGER BOSCH/AFP via Getty Images)

Right of reply: Mandla Mandela hijacks African continental crises in bid for relevance

Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela uses the continent’s security problems as a prism through which to cast his dark agenda against Israel into the minds of Africa’s youth

A priest leads a funeral procession for four United Democratic Front activists from Queenstown who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police. Those slain included Matthew Goniwe and Sparrow Mkonto. One mourner carries a small ceremonial spear within his black power salute, symbolic of Umkonto Wa Sizwe, which means “spear of the nation”. (Photo by Gideon Mendel/Corbis via Getty Images)

Let us not allow FW De Klerk’s death to tear us apart

His blanket apology did not cast him as a man of principle but as a man of cowardice

The trust’s officials couldn’t say how the money was invested because the information was not forthcoming from the ITB’s investment wing. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Parliament backs move to scrap Ingonyama Trust

Mandla Mandela believes rural land rights have to be recognised

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The battle for Denel: Row over Zuma and Mandla’s Qatar visit and how the South African arms company is caught in the crossfire of Saudi-Qatar conflict

Broker: Mandla Mandela denies helping to set up Jacob Zuma’s meeting with the emir of Qatar. (Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)

Government  ‘uncomfortable’  with Zuma meeting Qatar emir

Sources have confirmed that the department of international relations is unhappy about the meeting between the Emir of Qatar and the former president

Former president Nelson Mandela with his grandson Mandla Mandela.
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DA’s use of Madiba’s voice a ‘gross violation of electoral code’ – Mandla Mandela

An election advert using Mandela’s voice has elicited the ire of his grandson who says he shouldn’t be affiliated with the ‘betrayal of our struggle’.

‘Arrogant’ Mandla Mandela convicted of assault

Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla has been convicted of assaulting a teacher during a road-rage incident in Mthatha in 2013.

Nelson Mandela affectionately kisses his personal assistant Zelda la Grange at the Saxon Hotel in Johannesburg on March 20 2007.

Mandelas welcome Zelda La Grange’s Madiba book

Nelson Mandela’s family has defended the controversial book, saying those who had close relations with him are entitled to share their perspectives.

Mandla Mandela ‘cleans up’ his image

Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Mandla has hired a publicist to help clean up his image as "the official face of the Mandela brand".

Former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela.

Mandla Mandela’s estranged wife eyes inheritance

The millions Madiba left to Mandla Mandela may form part of divorce proceedings with his wife, to whom he is married in community of property with.