A long way from home
‘As a lawyer I have seen a lot of suffering because of the apartheid laws. But I do not think I have seen people suffer more than the...
Sister of mercy
The Saint Mary’s convent in Kagiso is not hard to find. The double storey building is in one of the oldest parts of Kagiso, in a place...
Mandela – 25 years in prison
Twenty five years have passed since Nelson Mandela was arrested at a roadblock near the Howick Falls in Natal on 5 August 1962. He has...
A taste of COSATU
Cornelius Sibeko, a 32 year old worker from the Bison Board paper mill in Piet Retief, visited Johannesburg for the first time in July...
A night under the stars
When bad luck comes, it does not come in bits and pieces. It comes in buckets, like the summer rain. When you hear what happened to me...