The past is never dead: South Africa’s #Zexit and Mandela’s legacy

Nearly three decades after his release from prison and 100 years after his birth, Nelson Mandela’s legacy may finally be playing out in the country he transformed.

South African President Jacob Zuma's near-decade rule is ending as he's facing a number of corruption charges. UN photograph by Loey Felipe

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

February 14, 2018

Feb. 11 marked 28 years since the moment Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster prison near Cape Town a free man. For the previous decade of Mandela’s 27 years in prison, the image of his younger, bearded face had given Alberto Korda’s Che Guevara headshot serious competition as the T-shi...

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