South Africa

Regina Twala was an influential writer and political activist of the 50s and 60s. Yet while European men gained acclaim from her work, her name was almost erased from memory. Over the course of 2018, during a research period in the…

Answers usually do not lie with one person. They lie with different people. As a university student, I used to work in the mines during the vacations, and then when I finished, I joined as a metallurgical engineer. When I started what…

South African actress and model Charlbi Dean, who starred in award-winning film Triangle of Sadness and TV series Black Lightning, has died at the age of 32. Dean had a breakout role opposite Woody Harrelson in Triangle of Sadness,…

I was born and bred in Sophiatown. It was called Little Harlem. We had jazz, we had dancing clubs. You had dancing clubs where people would dance against each other. There was so much going on in Sophiatown that the birds had to fly…

I don't know how it would feel like because I've never skated with women but I thought it wold feel obviously much better. My bame is Thato, I am 20 years old. I am the founder of Island Gals Shred. Island Gals is a community of women…

On average nearly one person an hour is shot dead in South Africa, experts say. And the lived experience for some on the ground bears out the extent of gun violence. "Every night there are bullets. Shooting, every day," said one…

Here I was, a young attorney. I literally had nothing behind me. The only thing I had is what we call on the Cape Flats: "guts," "tenacity." But also the sense of the deep wrong that apartheid had perpetrated. And no one was really held to…

Sir Mo Farah was brought to the UK illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant, he has revealed. The Olympic star has told the BBC he was given the name Mohamed Farah by those who flew him over from Djibouti. His real…

A woman who took up running after she lost her left leg to cancer has passed the Guinness World Record for most consecutive marathons. Jacky Hunt-Broersma, 46, has run 26.2-miles every day since mid-January, normally taking around five…

Former South African convicted criminal, bank robber and gangster turned politician and motivational speaker, Gayton McKenzie, has pledged to donate 100% of his salary after being elected Central Karoo's district mayor in South Africa. …