Author : Jacob MAWELA

SHE rose from owning a cleaning business, progressing to a nail technician and owner of a nail salon – to becoming the founder and CEO...

“TELL De Klerk to speak to the ‘old man.’” Erstwhile head of South Africa’s National Intelligence Service, Niel Barnard advised the then chief negotiator for...

‘YOU would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let’s say from Madrid to Kiev, a...

SIXTEEN-year-old Sabreen found herself squashed upright among 400 hundred other people in a standing-only formation on a fishing boat meant to carry 100 whilst all...

“I AM the Queen and I like to dance,” Queen Elizabeth II once confided to someone regarding her proclivity for 1970s Swedish pop superband, ABBA’s...

“THIS is my country South Africa. My camera will give my country the freedom.” A quote in bold black font set against white matte paper...

“BILL is basically unimaginative and has never invented anything,” spat the now late Apple inventor, Steve Jobs, regarding Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, to biographer, Walter...

“NOW if you want a dead son-in-law you just keep on advising him like you doing!” A character named Sofia warned the raconteur, a semi-illiterate...

‘DON’T worry about Malema. It will be okay.’ A farmer out in the rural areas conveyed this assurance to the then recently inaugurated Vice-Chancellor of...

SHE’s the 21st Century’s biggest artist (read musician)! Time magazine chose her as its Person of the Year – the first musician ever acknowledged thus!...