As the government’s chief financial cabinet member, he helped stave off a broader economic collapse amid the global turmoil set off in 2008
Author: ALAN COWELL
Martti Ahtisaari, Conflict Negotiator Given Nobel Peace Prize, Dies at 86
A former president of Finland, he played a prominent role in talks that led to independence for Namibia and an end to “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland.
Eusebius McKaiser, Acerbic South African Political Analyst, Dies at 44
Adamantly progressive, openly gay and politically fearless, he cast a sharp eye on the country’s post-apartheid politics and culture.
King Charles’s Coronation: A British TV Spectacle for the Digital Age
King Charles III’s coronation will be disseminated across numerous platforms to a less sympathetic public than when his mother was crowned in 1953.
Bruce Haigh, Diplomat Who Helped Battle Apartheid, Dies at 77
An Australian, he assisted South African dissidents like the journalist Donald Woods, whose story was told in the movie “Cry Freedom.”
Freddie Scappaticci, Who May Have Been British Spy ‘Stakeknife,’ Is Dead
He denied that he was Stakeknife, the code name of a high-ranking British mole in the Irish Republican Army during the Northern Ireland conflict.
Nigel Lawson, Economic Force Under Thatcher, Dies at 91
As chancellor of the Exchequer, he helped lift Britain with tax cuts and other Conservative measures — the “Lawson Boom” — but harder times followed, and he resigned in bitterness.
Traute Lafrenz, Last Survivor of Anti-Hitler Group, Dies at 103
As a member of the White Rose, a small anti-Nazi resistance group, she used peaceful tactics to try persuading Germans to turn against Hitler.
Myrtle Witbooi, Who Fought for Domestic Workers’ Rights, Dies at 75
She experienced the inequities of the job firsthand in South Africa and helped build national and international unions to address them.
From Coronation to Funeral: Bookends to the Life of a Queen, and a Generation
For 70 years, Elizabeth II was the anchor of a nation’s identity. Charles III now will take on, or recast, that role.