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What Makes South Africa Unique? (and kind of very special!) 27 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
So here’s one of those emails doing the rounds that’s full of all the good stuff that makes us so proud to be South African. But before you rush off to quote all these great claims to your overseas fr...
Winnie’s pain and torture in prison 26 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela felt particularly close to her jailed husband, Nelson, in October 1970, after she was released from serving 491 days in solitary confinement. She wrote to him on 26 October...
Independent film makes Venice cut 26 Aug 2013 | 08:12 pm
When South African low-fi filmmaker Sibs Shongwe-La Mer stood up on stage at TEDx Johannesburg, a conference where creative minds gather to share ideas, he seized the audience’s attention by asking: “...
Joan Joffe – riding the wave of success 26 Aug 2013 | 08:02 pm
Timing has a lot to do with being successful, says Joan Joffe, one of the most recognisable faces in South African business. “Well, you certainly caught the computer wave,” I mention to her when we me...
SA engineer to help build Bloodhound 21 Aug 2013 | 12:58 pm
South Africa’s Beverly Singh, an engineering graduate from Port Elizabeth, is the first recipient of the Bloodhound SSC Chevening Scholarship – she will work with the construction team on the final as...
We look up to you: Ibrahim 19 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Dr Mo Ibrahim, businessman, academic and philanthropist, delivered the 11th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture at the University of South Africa (Unisa) in Pretoria on 17 August 2013. He joins luminaries s...
The women in Madiba’s life 19 Aug 2013 | 06:05 pm
South Africa’s beloved statesman and father of democracy and reconciliation, Nelson Mandela or Madiba, his clan name and affectionate nickname, has many women in his life. But perhaps the three most i...
Interview with Green Vanilla Tea author Marie Williams 16 Aug 2013 | 07:19 pm
Award-winning South African author Marie Williams talks exclusively to SAPeople about love, loss, Green Goblins and discovering what makes your heart sing. Marie was recently awarded the Finch Memoir ...
Cape Town becomes bike-friendly 15 Aug 2013 | 03:14 pm
Cape Town is going green in more ways than one. It has a network of bicycle lanes across the city that are to be painted green to demarcate their use for bikes only. “The colour coding helps to promot...
Women in the struggle remembered 14 Aug 2013 | 01:55 pm
The courageous women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 in protest against pass laws were honoured for their contribution in a colourful ceremony on the same day 57 years later, in Ts...
