Blog posts tagged "South Africa"

July 20, 2011 3:52 pm 35 Comments

More than 40 years after he was sent down from Liverpool University for organising an anti-apartheid protest, Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow returns to pick up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.

July 12, 2010 8:13 am 15 Comments

So Spain won; South Africa won; Football won - albeit scrappily; and we, the world, won.

February 11, 2010 8:46 am 17 Comments

On the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela's release from prison in South Africa, Jon Snow remembers being there as he began his walk to freedom.

April 24, 2009 11:39 am No Comments

People often ask who I have most enjoyed interviewing. I am still in no doubt that talking to Nelson Mandela in 1994, before he even became president of South Africa, was that. The amazing thing was that, if anything, he seemed more interested in me than even I was in him. He made eye contact. [...]

April 8, 2009 7:18 pm 6 Comments

DFID, the UK aid department, asked me to volunteer to come down here to Lusaka in Zambia to help “facilitate” the launch of the North-South Corridor project for which they and other donors have thus far raised $1.35bn. It involved four presidents, the head of the WTO, a DFID minister, an EU commissioner, international banks, [...]