"The autobiography has as its linchpin political history, in particular the history of the ANC in South Africa before, during and after being banned."

At front and centre need to be the insights, knowledge and expertise of Southern scholarship on Africa.

The South African struggle icon had to be readmitted after showing signs of post-op infection.

Times have changed and the need is for all South Africans to acknowledge the iniquities of the past and work towards an egalitarian future.

There were heroes in the armed struggle but there was also fraud, torture, executions and poor leadership.

I only knew them divorced and at war with one another. My aunt said it was sickening how in love they were.

Struggle veteran and author Phyllis Naidoo has died, says the ANC.

Ruth First pursued a better life for all Africans, but she was killed by a letter bomb 12 years before the liberation of her country.