Two unrelated tales of citizen activism are a salient reminder that ordinary people can do extraordinary things

David Beresford, the Guardian correspondent who died in Johannesburg last week, leaves a remarkable legacy.

David Beresford was known and admired by his peers for his dedication to the craft of journalism.

David Beresford was known and admired by his peers for his dedication to the craft of journalism, writes seasoned journalist Anton Harber.

Some time ago the civil rights lawyer, David Soggot, went to visit a friend in hospital, emerging to find that thieves had stolen his car.

As the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide approaches, David Beresford examines the case of the general who struggles to live with what he saw. Few accounts of the Rwandan…

Two years ago David Beresford visited the set of <i>The King is Alive</i>, the Dogme 95 film that opened at cinemas last week.

David Beresford went on location in the Namibian desert last year and found a cast of liberated actors making the fourth Dogme 95 film.

<em>Katizas Journey</em> records how, at one point in his career as a petty thief, he stole 50c from a blind beggars tin cup. and recon

They retired to Orania to escape majority rule. Then South Africa’s first black president came to have tea with Hendrik Verwoerd’s widow. David Beresford was there

The presidential inauguration … The world’s leaders came to honour Nelson Mandela, the former convict who is now commander in chief.