Africa

A death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019

Introduction The Constitutional Court’s ruling that Afrikaans as a language of instruction has to be content with a m...

Amamfengu by Manduleli Bikitsha

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Sandile Dikeni reads "Love poem for my country", 23 January 2008

Solly Mokoetle

ANC Veterans ,Journalist, former South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) CEO

Witbank, Mpumalanga

eMalahleni, formerly Witbank, in the Mpumalanga province, South Africa, East of Pretoria. Established in 1890 as Witbank...

Anton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone

On the 17th Nov 1989 ANC guerrilla fighter, after a 6 hour gun-battle with the apartheid army, was killed

Life and times of Helen Kies

This is a 2006 interview with the late Helen Kies, who was a leading member of the NEUM and later of the the New Unity M...

Where we come from, November 1990

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Ukhumulansika, December 1992

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Turffontein Race Course, Johannesburg

In Johannesburg when you speak about ‘going to the races’ you’re usually referring to spending a day watching horses rac...

The Man Who Could Fly

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The Law and You, October 1956

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Sandile Dikeni

Political prisoner, poet, journalist, and editor

Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve

The Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve lies just next to Yellowwood Park in Durban, an extension of the D'Moss green lung ...

Coligny, North West Province

The town lies 193 km due west of Johannesburg on the road to Lichtenburg, which is 29 km away. Originally named 'Treurfo...