Our interview with Denis Goldberg said he was “the only white man on trial at Rivonia with [Nelson] Mandela” in 1964. This was incorrect. He was the only white man convicted. Two others, Lionel “Rusty” Bernstein and James Kantor, stood alongside Mandela, Walter Sisulu and others, but were acquitted (“It’s liberating: anti-apartheid hero’s final struggle”, Interview, last week, page 30).
Prime minister Theresa May has type 1, not type 2 diabetes, contrary to “She was dealt a bad hand. She seems out of her depth” (In Focus, last week, page 26).
An error introduced during editing had Sana’a in Yemen, and Beirut in Lebanon, “tens of thousands of miles” apart. They are separated by 1,391 miles (“Tension sweeps the Middle East”, News, last week, page 23).
“Universities sell themselves – just like shampoo” (Opinion, last week, page 13) said the University of Reading had extrapolated its claim to be in the top 1% of global institutions from “rankings among Britain’s top 200 universities”. This was incorrect. The “top 1%” assertion was based on Reading’s placings in the QS and Times Higher Education World University Rankings. The claim was not related to its ranking in Britain.
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