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The woman who said ‘no’ to Madiba
Before he got married to Graça Machel on his 80th birthday on 18 July 1998, former president Nelson Mandela proposed to a fellow struggle stalwart and an old friend, Amina Cachalia — but she turned him down.
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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the ghosts of crimes past
Kenneth Good examines the TRC's hearings and findings on the Mandela United Football Club's reign of terror.
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Reflections of an ex-Christian at Easter
MY journey with Christianity has been a robust one. I was born and raised in a fairly ordinary Christian home. By this I mean that we went to a little parish church within walking distance of our house.
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The great NGO funding crisis, Part III: Adapt or die
Respected political think-tank Idasa, the Institute for Democracy in Africa, has become the latest casualty of the funding problems hitting South African civil society.
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Achebe's life a living sermon on opposing autocracy
THE DEATH of Chinua Achebe has closed one of the most interesting chapters in the literary world and African politics. His meteoric rise as an African intellectual was not a coincidence, but a deliberate result necessitated and dictated by the dynamics of the times.
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