How Will South Africa Fare Without Nelson Mandela?

The World’s Alex Gallafent reports from Johannesburg that South Africans are thinking about how to move on after the former leader dies. Some say that currrent leaders need to draw more from Mandela’s political legacy and exemplary personal ethics. Others say it’s time to move on.

South African political cartoonist Zapiro

Jonathan Shapiro has been known as Zapiro since he was a teenager. South Africa’s best-known political cartoonist learned the power of visual expression in the 1980s as a propagandist for the anti-apartheid movement. Today, he’s regarded across South Africa’s diverse population as the moral compass of his country, trying to keep the still-developing democracy well, democratic.

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Ted Kennedy, Tracy Kidder, Polish Jews

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On this week’s How We Got Here history podcast we look at Ted Kennedy’s contribution to the anti-apartheid movement, Tracy Kidder’s new book Strength in What Remains, and the construction of a new museum in Warsaw dedicated to the Jewish history of Poland. >>> Click here to join the “How We Got Here” Facebook Group Page.