Madiba

By Judy Sikuza Tata Madiba’s birthday celebrations resulted in a New York City that was heavily infected with a fever. This was not the superfluous kind such as the swine flu which causes debilitation but rather the kind that everyone coveted to be infected with. The Mandela Day celebrations were like a fever that permeated […]

Every so often someone comes along who is so brave and so inspiring that they move you into action. These are men and women who have the power to galvanise an entire community to do something. Whenever they are around it becomes very difficult even for the self-satisfied to sit by and remain silent. In […]

The duty of the young is to improve upon the past, which is, largely, a world created or messed up by their parents. What we are witnessing now is that moment when the grandchildren of Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki, Walter Sisulu and others must make a choice in terms of the political future and leadership […]

by Marius Redelinghuys On my way to campus Monday morning I got a bit anxious when I read the Pretoria News posters alluding to some “Madiba magic” injection into the ANC’s election campaign, I pondered the possibilities of what this could really mean, but didn’t think much of it initially. However, as I walked into […]

I remember, as a poor varsity student, begging and borrowing money to visit Cape Town. A former schoolmate who had relocated to that beautiful city invited me to spend the week with him there. After some financial gymnastics, I eventually scraped enough money together to make the trip. In Cape Town, I decided to make […]