(b) Despite the fact that there were earlier discussions and a plan at national level for the funeral of President Mandela, it did not translate into advance and coordinated planning by the ECPG, the ...

Madikizela-Mandela died on Monday at the age of 81 after a long illness. The memorial service is scheduled to take place on April 11. Orlando Stadium will also be the host of the special official ...

The funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on 30 January 1965 was broadcast live on the BBC and seen around the world. It was the first state funeral of a politician in the century and the biggest ...

Dear friends and fellow South Africans, On the 18th of July 1978, Nelson Mandela spent his 60th birthday on Robben Island. In celebration of the man whom the London Times called "the colossus of ...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has expressed concern over what it's called misleading claims that its members have surrendered in Goma, in the eastern Democratic ...

In July 2021, the country was engulfed by violent protests and looting following the arrest of former president, Jacob Zuma. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, the daughter of MK Party leader Jacob Zuma, who ...

The Kindertransport memorial at Liverpool Street Station was vandalised on Holocaust Memorial Day by a group called 'Jews Against Genocide'. (Image: X) ...

Happily, though it stayed hot, it remained pleasant for the folk who assembled at the Epping Forest Ampol roadhouse for the 10th Memorial Service at the wall there, and for the dedication of 16 new ...

Katlego Ranaka’s Memorial and Funeral Services Details Shared. Our deepest condolences goes to the Ranaka family as they grief the passing away of one of their own. Katlego Ranaka passed away on the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The chairman of the World Holocaust Remembrance Center has accused Elon Musk of insulting victims of Nazism after the billionaire told a German far-right political party that the country needed to ...

Elie Wiesel, the Museum’s founding chairman, was deported to Auschwitz with his family in May 1944. He was selected for forced labor and survived. He later said, “I thought in 1945 antisemitism died ...