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Michele Bruno, hairstylist to Jo’burg’s glamour set, and the first Miss Gay SA, opened the way for the LGBTI community, writes Mark Gevisser.
Michele Bruno, hairstylist to Jo’burg’s glamour set, and the first Miss Gay SA, opened the way for the LGBTI community, writes Mark Gevisser.
An all-rounder who led by example, a father figure and a warm comrade
Daniel’s greatest legacy remains his interaction with his students, from exiled South Africans in Swaziland in the 1970s to international scholars.
Tom Sharpe, who has died aged 85, was in the great tradition of English comic novelists.
Craig MacKenzie Margaret Lenta, born September 2 1936, died November 5 2012
After battling a long illness, Professor Emeritus Phillip Tobias passed away on Thursday morning.
Norman Reynolds, a beloved partner, father, friend and mentor, died last Saturday, December 15, while hiking with his daughters in the Drakensberg. Reynolds was a development…
When a soldier moves on from our realm to the next, the platoons go silent. A sense of disbelief hovers, but we dare not lose focus on the mission. Prayers and faith are…
Professor Ruben Sher, the man who predicted 20 years ago that HIV/Aids would become a “biological holocaust” in South Africa, has died at the age of 78. Under apartheid, and at a…
This week’s death of Smiso Nkwanyana, the South African Communist Party’s KwaZulu-Natal secretary, could not have come at a worse time for a party out to assert its independence.
Obituary: Johannes Kerkorrel. In a bizarre echo of the suicide of a lover 10 years ago, the Afrikaans singer Johannes Kerkorrel committed suicide on Tuesday by hanging himself.
OBITUARY: LEARNMORE JONGWE. The old adage that age brings wisdom may well be true and has been the hallmark of many political orders, but a politician’s job requires more than…
