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The Elder’s, a small group of political giants meet in secret to discuss the world’s conflicts.

‘No armies, no budgets’: The quiet power of the planet’s most private peacemakers

Since 2007, a group of retired political giants and humanitarian leaders founded by Nelson Mandela has met to tackle global existential threats.

  • Mick Brown
Clive Lloyd and Bob Hawke in 1985.

Hawke, Packer and ‘Supercat’: Cricket’s secret Kirribilli meeting and the end of apartheid

Forty years after the rebel tours of South Africa, we reveal one of the great sliding doors moments in Australian cricket.

  • Daniel Brettig
Vincent ‘Shimmy’ Jiyane and Mary Mulovhedzi from the Soweto Gospel Choir.

The joyful Soweto choir that even Nelson Mandela wanted to join

The three-time Grammy Award winners are back with a concert about the struggle against apartheid.

  • Garry Maddox
Mandela slipped away from his itinerary, which included an appearance at the Sydney Opera House, to meet Indigenous representatives.

‘A very serious mistake’: What Mandela regretted during his first visit to Australia

As the statesman’s physician, Dr Peter Friedland thought he understood much about Nelson Mandela. Then Friedland announced he was moving to Australia ...

  • Jill Margo

Naomi Campbell: ‘Victim is not in my vocab. I don’t want people to feel sorry for me’

She may have struggled in the past, but the 54-year-old supermodel bristles at any attempt to paint her as an underdog.

  • Alice Thomson
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MK Party supporters celebrate in the middle of the street in Mahlbnathini village in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Mandela’s party loses majority for the first time in 30 years

South Africa’s election results put it on a new political path for the first time since the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule 30 years ago.

  • Gerald Imray and Mogomotsi Magome
Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, visit Duesseldorf, Germany, in September ahead of this year’s Invictus games.

Tele’s Mandela hit on Meghan and Harry backfires

Murdoch empire’s attack on former royal couple draws backlash from the Mandela family.

  • Noel Towell
Nelson Mandela votes in Johannesburg in 2011,  assisted by his granddaughter Ndileka Mandela.

Nelson Mandela is my grandfather. His courage can guide our climate battle

Moral challenges require leaders who can provide a moral framework that political goals can leverage. Except now we need it on a global scale.

  • Ndileka Mandela
Nelson Mandela arrives at Melbourne Town Hall on a tour of Australia in 1990.

From the Archives, 1990: Mandela’s appeal to Melbourne

Nelson Mandela ended his historic Australian tour with an appeal for help to build a new South African social and political system during a speech to a cheering crowd of about 6000 at the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Centre

  • Kevin Childs and John Masanauskus