‘<i>Ek sal ’n oranje pet dra</i> [I’ll be wearing an orange cap]" was how it sounded. The Japanese professor was telling me how to recognise him when he arrived at Johannesburg International. In Afrikaans. A thought flashed through my head: was Takasji Sakura’s cap "oranje" as in the colour, or from Orania as in the Northern Cape?
Lesley-Ann van Selm, MD of Khulisa, one of the country’s most effective crime rehabilitation organisations, could have been forgiven if she had joined the chicken run after what happened in May this year. Her daughter Jackie was shot in the neck in a daylight hijacking outside her boyfriend’s Johannesburg home.
The local publishing industry continues to feed South Africans’ insatiable appetite for ”exclusive” new details of what Paris, Angelina and Britney are up to. Afrikaners now have a new celebrity mag in Mense, while an up-market gossip sheet, In Style, will soon hit the news-stands.
She spells her first name with a lower case "j" and her last name with an "m" as "a statement of not accepting all that people name you, or define you as". Charles Leonard talks to American poet jessica Care moore, who performs at the Urban Voices festival this month.
The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging will hold a protest march in the strife-torn town of Welkom tomorrow, Soweto Day.
After 27 years and amid tears Beyers Naude returned to the white Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) on Sunday night.
An explosion rocked the historic Melrose House in Pretoria at 9.30pm on Wednesday night .
Death-row prisoner tells how Bop ‘hit-squad’ helped kill police chief who recruited them.