{"id":13443,"date":"2025-10-20T07:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T05:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/nelson-mandela-foundation-gears-up-to-host-23rd-annual-lecture\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:24","slug":"nelson-mandela-foundation-gears-up-to-host-23rd-annual-lecture","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nelson-mandela-foundation-gears-up-to-host-23rd-annual-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson Mandela Foundation gears up to host 23rd Annual lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">It is considered one of South Africa (SA)\u2019s most respected platforms for dialogue and reflection on global issues.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The foundation has invited Francesca Albanese, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, to give the lecture this year, despite US sanctions against her and sharp criticism of her by Israel.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Foundation\u2019s Chief Executive Officer, Mbongiseni Buthelezi, says peace in Gaza requires dialogue, not one-sided violence or conflict.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe end of apartheid in SA was not brought about by armed conflict. Unfortunately, of course, we are coming off the back of two years of what has been called a war, but really, it\u2019s been a one-sided decimation of Gaza by Israel. And we see that it is something that is completely unconstructive, unproductive. And what we need to move towards is finding a constructive way of dialoguing towards finding lasting peace. And I think we\u2019re in a moment in the world now with the opportunities presented by the Trump plan for us to really start seeing some movement towards a long-term sustainable peace for people of Gaza in particular and the West Bank as well,\u201d Buthelezi said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13444,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13443","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Nelson Mandela Foundation is gearing up to host the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture this coming Saturday||The Nelson Mandela Foundation is gearing up to host the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture this coming Saturday","published_date":"2025-10-20 00:00:00||2025-10-20 00:00:00","news_description":"The Nelson Mandela Foundation is gearing up to host the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture this coming Saturday||The Nelson Mandela Foundation is gearing up to host the 23rd Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture this coming Saturday","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18562,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13443\/revisions\/18562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}