(See Benny Gool's picture of Tutu hosting Mandela's arm in John Allen's biography). Today South Africa and the world shudder at the prospect of what, in turn, will become South Africa's saddest day in ...

He can be seen in photos almost next to Nelson. The Mandela’s “married life” after Nelson ... In this he follows Mark Gevisser whose biography of Thabo Mbeki omits Mbeki’s presidency, by far the most ...

The story of Pretoria-born photographer Ernest Cole, who died in exile 35 years ago with one book of photographs and little ...

Biographical writing constitutes a category of literary engagements that are explored in academia because they are helpful in revealing the network of events that make up the human world. As a genre ...

Apart from adding that he was focused on his latest project, Michelle Obama had little to say about her husband of 30-odd ...

such as the presidential awards from Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in 1994 and 2001, respectively. Danny Jordaan speaks to the media during a press conference in 2010 (L). Jordaan looks on prior to ...

Sam Nujoma, the fiery freedom fighter who led Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its ...

Former president Nelson Mandela’s grandson, Nkosi Zwelivelile Mandla Mandela, is still opposed to the Government of National Unity (GNU). The former member of Parliament first expressed his ...

Four of the five suspects arrested at Nelson Mandela's Houghton property on charges related to hijacking appeared in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court on 10 January 2025. Picture: Orrin Singh/EWN ...

In 2010, researcher Fiona Broome coined the term when she discovered that many people believed, as she did, that anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela died in prison in the 1980s. In fact ...

When I’m dead, you make sure that ordinary people, ordinary rural women, must be at the forefront of my funeral. I want my ...