Author : Jacob MAWELA

‘PIERRE Cardin fainted,’ wrote fashion critic Tim Blanks in the New York Times Magazine about what occurred at the funeral of fellow fashion designer, Christian...

“ARE you going to write that in the newspaper?” A local of the coastal village of Calabria, enquired of a newcomer, a young Dutch journalist...

‘OGA, kedu ebe nwanyi a si?’ (Sir, where did this woman come from?), a group of the 1994 Class of medical students in its second...

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...