{
 "id": "source/penn-state-jaffer-2018",
 "class": "source",
 "slug": "penn-state-jaffer-2018",
 "label": {
  "en": "South African author, journalist to deliver 2018 Nelson Mandela Lecture — Penn State"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "إعلان جامعة ولاية بنسلفانيا عن محاضرة نيلسون مانديلا التي ألقتها زبيدة جعفر سنة 2018: في سنة 1980، وهي في الثانية والعشرين وصحفية في كيب تاون، تلقّت رسالة من نيلسون مانديلا يحثّها على الاستمرار في الكتابة لأن قصصها كانت تبعث الأمل في السجناء؛ وكانت قد اعتُقلت وعُذّبت بعد ستة أشهر من بدء وظيفتها الأولى؛ والتقت مانديلا في اليوم التالي لإطلاق سراحه سنة 1990.",
  "en": "Penn State's announcement of Zubeida Jaffer's 2018 Nelson Mandela Lecture: in 1980, aged 22 and a Cape Town journalist, she received a message from Nelson Mandela urging her to keep writing, as her stories gave prisoners hope; she had been detained and tortured six months into her first job; she met Mandela the day after his release in 1990."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "type": "web",
  "title": "South African author, journalist to deliver 2018 Nelson Mandela Lecture",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Penn State",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2018,
     10,
     2
    ]
   ]
  },
  "publisher": "Penn State University news (psu.edu)",
  "URL": "https://www.psu.edu/news/campus-life/story/south-african-author-journalist-deliver-2018-nelson-mandela-lecture",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "A university news announcement of 2 October 2018, read on 26 October 2026; relied on for the 1980 Mandela message and her meeting with him after his release. Its statement that she was 22 in 1980 agrees with the 1958 birth year given by South African History Online and the 26 January 1958 date given by Vahed.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-25",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}