Nelson Mandela’s centenary brought together headline-grabbing A-listers and pledges of over $7 billion towards pressing global issues. Though for some, it didn’t end well. It was...
One of the biggest names in television came to South Africa for what she believes are the greatest challenges affecting girls and women. Oprah Winfrey was...
Review: Mandela My Life, Melbourne Museum. What is the role of commemorative exhibitions that focus on the life of a single change agent I asked myself,...
It is a century since Nelson Mandela came kicking and screaming into a world that he would change. In one hundred years, his name has been...
Space is virgin territory, yet, for Sir Richard Branson. But even that, he appears set to conquer commercially with his company Virgin Galactic this year. One...
South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is mired in a serious leadership crisis, and President Jacob Zuma faces an ignominious end to his political career. The...
DNA linked Oprah Winfrey’s maternal ancestry to Liberia, Cameroon and Zambia. While any one of those African countries could be her native homeland — her heart...
While Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, and Desmond Tutu are rightly venerated for their role in opposing and ending white minority rule in South Africa, another leader...
Amid conjecture, speculation and a sea of assumptions about a book – “Mandela’s Last Years” – that most people have not been at liberty to read, including myself...
Yvonne Malan still gets threats more than 13 years after a campaign for a posthumous degree for Bram Fischer. She fled her African home for England...