Africa

DAVID GOLDBLATT (1930–2018)-Giant of SA photography used his lens with precision and compassion, By Greg Marinovich

David Goldblatt was one of South Africa’s best known photographic chroniclers. For seven decades, he explored a series o...

Through a Lens Darkly: David Goldblatt (1930-2018), Peter Wilhelm

David Goldblatt had a primary gift – involving the seizure of what might have been a disregarded moment spurring a deepe...

Ditsong Museum of Natural History

The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History used to be the Transvaal Museum of Natural History, which in turn develop...

David Goldblatt: The Art of Capturing a New truth by Pippa Green (Daily Maverick), 26 June 2018

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Changing Perceptions of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in t...

Life and times of the ANC Stalwart Billy Modise

Evelyn Ntoko Mase

Nurse, Entrepreneur, Nelson Mandela’s first wife

The South African Teacher Who Turned Her Home into a Sanctuary of Color and Light By Alexxa Gotthardt, 13 June 2018, Artsy

In the remote South African town of Nieu-Bethesda, a mystical garden rises from a dusty, mostly deserted road. There, a ...

Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is head...

Mossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)

It was named Aguada de Sao Bras, by Vasco de Gama in 1497, when He set off with 170 men on an expedition to find a sea r...

Montecasino

Montecasino is located in the suburb of Fourways in Northern Johannesburg. The casino and entertainment complex is desig...

Maitland Road

Milestones where used to measure distance, by the early settlers, in Cape Town. A Post Office known as Eleventh Mile Sto...

How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018

Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of ...

Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018

An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became...

Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018

Despite the vast literature on Nelson Mandela, the qualities that his leadership comprised has been surprisingly neglect...