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UPDATED: Francesca Albanese: The world is watching its conscience collapse
Francesca Albanese stood before more than 3 500 people at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Saturday evening and told them the world was watching its conscience collapse. “The laws created to stop states from destroying each other are now being used to justify that destruction,” she said. Delivering the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual […]
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‘I’m not here to make you comfortable’, says UN’s Francesca Albanese
Francesca Albanese is not in South Africa to make anyone feel comfortable. The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories has come to deliver the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture — and she is already testing whether the world still recognises moral clarity when it hears it. Ahead of Saturday’s lecture, she told journalists […]
Carlos Amato’s career as a cartoonist began, as he puts it, with a “lucky pitch”. After a decade in the newsroom as an editor and writer, Amato was burnt out and doodling his way through meetings when an unexpected opportunity came along. A vacancy opened at the Mail & Guardian after the legendary Zapiro moved […]