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Indigenous youth meet trailblazers ahead of Nelson Mandela Day

·July 18, 2025·4 min read

Accompanied by their parents and mentors from the midwestern state of Wisconsin, the group wore handmade ribbon skirts and vests featuring seven coloured bands, each symbolizing a Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of personal significance, such as good health and gender equality. Also visiting the UN in New York for the...

UN commemorates Nelson Mandela’s ‘fight for a better world’ |

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·July 18, 2022·4 min read

The first democratically-elected President of South Africa, and the country’s first Black leader, died in December 2013 at age 95. The annual commemoration on 18 July, his birthday, recognizes his contribution to the culture of peace and freedom. Mr. Mandela – affectionately known as “Madiba”, his Xhosa clan name –...

Guterres hails healer and ‘mentor to generations’, Nelson Mandela |

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·July 17, 2022·2 min read

Secretary-General António Guterres described the champion of a free and democratic South Africa who spent nearly three decades in prison resisting the racist Apartheid regime, as “a leader of unparalleled courage and towering achievement; and a man of quiet dignity and deep humanity.” Nelson Mandela – or Madiba, the clan name...