Winnie Mandela Dies At 81
South African anti-apartheid campaigner Winnie Mandela has died aged 81, her personal assistant says. Winnie Madikizela Mandela was the former wife of South Africa’s first black president, Nelson...
Tag: Apartheid
Fake News, Torture, Cover-Ups
Police brutality, "fake news" propaganda and official cover-ups at the height of apartheid have been laid bare in a South African court probing the death of a communist activist 46 years ago. Ahmed...
Nelson Mandela: The Man, The Legacy!
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others” – Nelson Rolihlala Mandela The history of the African liberation...
South African ‘political’ Murderer In Parole Limbo
Inside South Africa's maximum security Groenpunt prison, hawk-eyed guards stroll between rows of wooden benches, watching inmates closely as they meet visitors. Among the notorious jail's residents...
Richards Uncertain About South Africa’s Transformation Plan
South Africa great Barry Richards has questioned whether the current policy of racial transformation will end with "merit selection". The policy is designed to cope with the legacy of apartheid, when...
S.Africa’s ‘White Zulu’ Johnny Clegg Bids Fans Goodbye
After nearly four decades of foot-stomping music that challenged South Africa's apartheid regime and promoted racial reconciliation, Johnny Clegg -- aka "the White Zulu" -- is heading out on his...
S.Africa Apartheid-Era Police Custody Death Case Opens
A policeman who was with a South African anti-apartheid activist when he fell from a 10th-storey window in the 1970s could be questioned over the fatal incident, a new inquest into the death heard...
South Africa Confronts Apartheid-Era Custody Deaths
The brutal death of anti-apartheid campaigner Ahmed Timol was allowed to go quietly unsolved in the interests of South Africa's democratic reconciliation. But now more than 45 years after he fell...
Accelerating Protection and Equal Opportunities For Children In Ghana – Vice Principal
Very Reverend Professor Joseph Manasseh Yarquah Edusa-Eyison, the Vice Principal of the Methodist University College, Ghana has called on Churches to join forces with other stakeholders to liberate...
AASU Commemorates Soweto Youth Uprise
In 1953, the then Apartheid Government in South Africa introduced the Bantu Education Act which was designed to train Africans to be fit only in black community or for certain forms of labour...
S.Africa Struggles As Protests Rage Over Post-Apartheid Failures
The piles of stinking rubbish are growing, running water and electricity are scarce. In Ennerdale, public anger over the failures of post-apartheid South Africa has reached boiling point, exploding...
Angolan Apartheid Troops Battle To Survive In S.Africa
Angolan soldiers recruited by South Africa's apartheid government to fight against their homeland now live in squalor, forgotten and unwanted. Without healthcare, jobs or basic services, some 3,000...
South African Town Hit By Riots After White Farmers Get Bail
Riots have hit a small town in South Africa after a magistrate granted bail to two white farmers accused of murdering a 16-year-old black boy. Anger erupted in the maize producing town of Coligny,...
Mandela’s Granddaughter Addresses Anti-Zuma Rally
The eldest granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, Ndileka Mandela, has addressed a large crowd of demonstrators who are calling for President Jacob Zuma to stand down at a rally in the capital Pretoria....
New South African Alliance Calls For Zuma’s Exit
South African opposition parties, religious groups and civil society activists on Thursday launched a new alliance to try to force President Jacob Zuma to step down. Called the Freedom Movement and...
‘My Worst Day’ With Peace Hyde Featuring SA Billionaire Herman Mashaba
The 5th episode of the flagship Forbes Africa TV show, “My Worst Day with Peace Hyde” is finally here and it features South African Hair Care billionaire and Mayor of Johannesburg Herman Mashaba....
ANC Rejection ‘heart-Wrenching’ Brother
The eldest granddaughter of Nelson Mandela, South Africa's first black president and an anti-apartheid icon, has been urged to reconsider her decision no longer to vote for the governing African...
Nkrumah, Ghana and Its Independence In the Words of the Greats
On the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of Ghana’s weaning itself off the breast of the wicked colonialist British, the President of the land, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo gave a...
AU Not Doing Enough For Africa – Emile Short
The Africa Union (AU) is not doing enough for Africans, a former boss of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile Short, has said. His comments come on the...
Xenophobic Attacks and the Challenges of African Solidarity
The tension between Nigeria and South Africa reached its crescendo last Monday when Nigerian youth occupied the streets of Abuja to register their displeasure over the ceaseless and wanton xenophobic...