Whereas Jan Smuts was to be largely forgotten after his defeat in South Africa’s 1948 election, Nelson Mandela became an ...

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla ... Smuts had laid. My book traces the history of 20th century South Africa through the two lives of Smuts and Mandela.

Ahead of the launch of his biography on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, writer Graeme Wilson talks about capturing the ...

In a great 20th century almost over-populated with remarkable, genuine heroes, Nelson Mandela ... lives are being sacrificed on the fiendish altar of colour hatred. FROM HIS UNPUBLISHED ...

On November 14 we marked World Kindness Day. Why one day a year and why not every day? Just being kind or nice does not cost ...

But hers was an extraordinary spirit that would not be quelled no matter ... solitary confinement and having her husband and father of her children, Isithwalandwe Tata Nelson Mandela, imprisoned for ...

A new documentary by Raoul Peck draws on a trove of photographs once thought lost. Released from a bank vault with no records ...

At a time when the average parishioner was unable to understand the Latin words of a church service, and was forbidden from tasting the eucharistic cup, such imagery, gracing the walls of the church ...

Many Kenyans may know Viola as a Kenyan long distance runner and world champion, but what they may not know is that the ...

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