Idris Elba Channels Nelson Mandela Idris Elba may just be the perfect man to play Nelson Mandela. He has the accent down pack, confidence of…
Dominique jokes with the crew about Nelson Mandela‘s recovery and Kris Jenner‘s interview on the TJMS.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela may be discharged from hospital soon to recuperate at home, said a former president of South Africa. The prediction about Mandela leaving the hospital was made by Thabo Mbeki as he gave a memorial lecture for the African National Congress Saturday, reported the South African radio news service Eyewitness News. […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is responding to treatment and the 94-year-old’s condition remains critical but stable after more than a month in the hospital, South Africa’s president said Wednesday. President Jacob Zuma visited the anti-apartheid leader Wednesday evening. “We are encouraged that Madiba is responding to treatment and urge the public to continue providing […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Nelson Mandela is being kept alive by a breathing machine and faces “impending death,” court documents show. The former president’s health is “perilous,” according to documents filed in the court case that resulted in the remains of his three deceased children being reburied Thursday in their original graves. “The anticipation of his […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A family feud over the burial site of three of Nelson Mandela’s children intensified Tuesday when criminal charges were filed against one of his grandsons, as the ailing 94-year-old former president remained hospitalized in critical condition. Sixteen relatives have taken grandson Mandla Mandela to court after he reburied the children’s remains in […]
President Obama has arrived on the African continent amid reports that the condition of South Africa’s beloved former leader has worsened. The White House advisers said they will defer to the 94-year old anti-apartheid leader’s relatives on whether he’s up for a visit from the Obama. Click here to hear audio. (Photo: AP)
April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN), checks in with Roland Martin from Senegal as she reports on President Obama‘s trip to Africa, Nelson Mandela, the Obama girls and more.
Tom and the crew open the show talking about the George Zimmerman trial and ponder the question of whether President Obama should or could detour his trip in Africa to see the ailing Nelson Mandela.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The office of the South African president says he has visited a gravely ill Nelson Mandela in a hospital, and has decided to cancel a visit Thursday to Mozambique. A statement from President Jacob Zuma’s office said Zuma went to see the 94-year-old anti-apartheid leader on Wednesday evening and found him to […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Members of Nelson Mandela‘s family and tribal elders gathered Tuesday at the former president’s rural hometown in eastern South Africa, as concern grew for the 94-year-old leader who spent a third day in critical condition in a hospital, local media reported. The office of President Jacob Zuma said Mandela’s condition remained unchanged […]
President Barack Obama’s Africa trip is going on full steam ahead. He is there for seven days visiting three Sub-Saharan African countries: Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. President Obama is slated to visit a slave house in Senegal and the Door of No Return, which is said to be one of the final stops in […]
