Saturday, 15 October 2016
A HERO
NELSON MANDELA
FAMOUS AS
Anti-Apartheid Activist, President of ANC and Former President of South Africa
NATIONALITY
South African Famous South African Men
RELIGION
Christianity (Methodism)
POLITICAL IDEOLOGY
African National Congress
BORN ON
18 July 1918 AD
BIRTHDAY
18th July Famous 18th July Birthdays Historical Events On 18th July
DIED AT AGE
95
SUN SIGN
Cancer Cancer Men
BORN IN
Mvezo
DIED ON
05 December 2013 AD
FATHER
Gadla Henry Mphakanyiswa
MOTHER
Nosekeni Fanny
SPOUSES/PARTNERS:
Graça Machel (m. 1998), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (m. 1958–1996), Evelyn Ntoko (m. 1944–1958
CHILDREN
Makgatho Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela, Zindziswa Mandela, Zenani Mandela, Madiba Thembekile Mandela
EDUCATION
University of Fort Hare
University of London External System
University of South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand
University of London External System
University of South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand
AWARDS
1980 - Jawaharlal Nehru Award
1993 - Noble Prize
1990 - Bharat Ratna Award
1993 - Noble Prize
1990 - Bharat Ratna Award
Top 10 Facts You Did Not Know About Nelson Mandela
- Nelson Mandela was the first member of his family to attend school.
- He, along with Oliver Tambo, set up South Africa's first law firm run by blacks in 1952.
- Nelson’s Mandela’s favorite dish was tripe—the stomach lining of farm animals.
- He was often referred to as “the Black Pimpernel” for his ability to disguise himself in order to evade
- arrest. He frequently adopted the disguises of a fieldworker, a chauffeur, or a chef.
- He was a great communicator and devised a way of passing secret notes to other prisoners while he
- was incarcerated on the infamous Robben Island.
- He believed that sports were great means of bringing the racially divided country together.
- A prehistoric woodpecker, Australopithecus Nelson Mandela, is named after him.
- Mandela was once on the U.S. terror watch list because of his militant fight against apartheid.
- Nelson Mandela appeared in a cameo as a school teacher in the 1992 movie ‘Malcolm X’.
- Mandela was the recipient of more than 250 awards, including honorary degrees from more than 50
- universities worldwide.
Sunday, 9 October 2016
Donald Trump the Showman, Now Caught in the Klieg Lights
Above all else, the success of Donald J. Trump ’s presidential campaign was made possible by the media environment in which it was spawned, and his canny ability to exploit it. Now that same environment could very well be the thing that destroys it.
A forceful personality with an unparalleled reality-television pedigree, Mr. Trump was perfectly primed to take advantage of the increasingly happy marriage between the news and entertainment sides of the media business — becoming a textbook candidate for the modern infotainment era of which he was already a product.
It is only fitting that it was not an investigative report from the likes of NBC News that is posing the biggest threat yet to his candidacy, but a bit of raw — and, yes, deplorable — video leaked from the editing bays of a celebrity entertainment program, “Access Hollywood.”
And it is rich symbolism that the Bush family member who helped enable the most severe political damage to Mr. Trump is the “Access” host Billy Bush, not his cousin Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who was as ill-suited for today’s media environment as Mr. Trump was tailor-made for it.
Mr. Bush — the former governor, that is — approached his campaign as if it would be operating in a normal political news environment, where at least some of the focus would be on economic and educational proposals, foreign policy plans and those words that were once so revered in Republican politics, “values” and “character."
Above all else, the success of Donald J. Trump ’s presidential campaign was made possible by the media environment in which it was spawned, and his canny ability to exploit it. Now that same environment could very well be the thing that destroys it.
A forceful personality with an unparalleled reality-television pedigree, Mr. Trump was perfectly primed to take advantage of the increasingly happy marriage between the news and entertainment sides of the media business — becoming a textbook candidate for the modern infotainment era of which he was already a product.
It is only fitting that it was not an investigative report from the likes of NBC News that is posing the biggest threat yet to his candidacy, but a bit of raw — and, yes, deplorable — video leaked from the editing bays of a celebrity entertainment program, “Access Hollywood.”
And it is rich symbolism that the Bush family member who helped enable the most severe political damage to Mr. Trump is the “Access” host Billy Bush, not his cousin Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor, who was as ill-suited for today’s media environment as Mr. Trump was tailor-made for it.
Mr. Bush — the former governor, that is — approached his campaign as if it would be operating in a normal political news environment, where at least some of the focus would be on economic and educational proposals, foreign policy plans and those words that were once so revered in Republican politics, “values” and “character."
Saturday, 8 October 2016
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