Jeanette grew up in Soweto, an all black racially segregated neighbourhood with iconic neighbours including Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. As a child she wasn’t privy to the racial atrocities going on around her thanks to the solid struct...
Thu 26 Jan 2012 by Olivia Pires | Read more »
On 11 February South Africa marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Nelson Mandela from Victor Verster prison. The image of Nelson and Winnie Mandela walking away from the facility - hand in hand and with their clenched fists in the air - are amo...
Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Paul Nugent | Read more »
Fourteen years after the advent of democracy, there has been a bloodless coup in South Africa with the transfer of presidential power from Thabo Mbeki to Kgalema Motlanthe. Like all coups, it served the narrow self-interest of a group of power-hungry p...
Thu 02 Oct 2008 by Helen Zille | Read more »