Author : Jacob MAWELA

‘THEY project a democracy in which the government, whomever that government may be, will be bound by a higher set of rules, embodied in a...

A RICHLY dark ebony-hued woman lies lazily on a bed of white linen whilst holding a copy of the South African broadsheet newspaper, Cape Times...

“NO doctor, I’m not losing these hearing aids,” an octogenarian world-renown Black South African, retorted obdurately to a proposal from an ear, nose and throat...

THE room in which he was detained for 24 hours a day measured around 9 square meters with sealed and tinted windows located on a...

‘PABLO Escobar of hash’, one of American and Canadian print and broadcast news media – which included the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,...

“PABLO Escobar would kill anyone to win a football game!” deadpanned Fernando Rodríguez Mondragón, the son of Colombia’s Cali Cartel narcotraficante (drug lord), Gilberto Rodríguez...

“SEND a photographer to the Trafford Centre,” the voice of a woman English journalists dubbed ‘the devil publicist’ instructed a newspaper executive, as she hysterically...

MENE was just a young bumpkin from the Nigerian village of Dukana spending his days as an ‘apprentice driver’ aspiring to acquire his licence and...

ONE snowing and cold day on January 14, 1943, a twenty wagon train carrying, among other passengers, 194 strafgeval (criminal cases), pulled to a halt...

“THEY will have to drag us out as corpses,” Joseph Goebbels scribbled this diary entry one evening punctuated by shooting stars in mid-August of 1932...