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Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and liberation leader, is often given credit for the design. But it was, in fact, a 35-year-old artist and sportswoman named Theodosiah Okoh who came up with it, after answering a national call for new flag ideas.
AFRICA

Red, green and gold: A pan-African history of flags and the remarkable woman who inspired it

That many of the continent’s flags contain a similar colour scheme is deliberate by design

  • Shola Lawal
7 min read
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s spokesperson Zweli Mnisi has resigned.
DEPARTMENT OF ARTS AND CULTURE

Mthethwa invests R34m in national identity

Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has allocated R34-million to developing school children’s knowledge of the South African national identity.

  • Andisiwe Makinana
3 min read
Hawkers suffer as Bafana crash out of Cup
FIENIE GROBLER

Hawkers suffer as Bafana crash out of Cup

Johannesburg street sellers were raking it in at the start of the World Cup, but now that Bafana has crashed out, business has slumped.

  • Fienie Grobler
3 min read