CityPress Features

The tragic life and death of a star pupil

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:19:20 +0200

The first-year student who drowned at the Potchefstroom campus of North West University arrived at his residence without clothes, food or even a towel.

A woman of the seas

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:10:49 +0200

It’s 4.30am on a December morning. Charmaine Daniels, known as “Baby”, fills several large petrol containers at the local garage and returns to her Ocean View home.

Gandhi’s aura shines for all

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:53:24 +0200

Out of the hand and scalpel of one of South Africa’s leading sculptors, a poised figure of Mahatma Gandhi looms among the jacaranda trees of Rosebank in Joburg.

Life without a penis

Sun, 15 Jan 2012 10:32:36 +0200

Mthetheleli Miya* lost his penis in the winter circumcision season of 2006. The 23-year-old victim of a botched circumcision has managed to hide this from neighbours, friends and teammates.

African National Cool

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:31:21 +0200

By the mid-1960s, the ANC had been effectively silenced by the ruling Nationalist government: its top leaders were in jail, in hiding or in exile.

My ANC: ‘We were put close to the gallows’

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:35:34 +0200

Professor Renfrew Christie (63) spent two of the seven years of his imprisonment in the early 1980s locked up in a cell next to death row at Pretoria Central Prison.

My ANC: ‘It’s like being in a big, loving family’

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:00:44 +0200

Sebenzile Mzini, 51, was the first secretary of the newly unbanned ANC Youth League’s Border region in 1991 under then president, the late Peter Mokaba. He told his story to Sabelo Skiti

My ANC: ‘My dad’s generation is very irritating’

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:46:00 +0200

Mpho Biko (18) has just matriculated from Pretoria Girls High and plans to study architecture. She is the great-niece of the late Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko. She told her story to Silindile Nyathikazi

My ANC: ‘I’m angry but I will die ANC’

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:02:01 +0200

Thandi,* who did not want to be identified in this interview, was a soldier in the ANC underground. Now she is a lance corporal in the SANDF. She spoke to Lucas Ledwaba

My ANC: ‘I’ve got what I lived for’

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:59:44 +0200

Mme Leisa was a nurse in Soweto and a member of the ANC Women’s League who ran a safe house for comrades on the run from security police. Now 97, she spoke to Lucas Ledwaba