Apartheid

Commissioner of Inquiry into State Capture

Remember our heroes with integrity

A Day in the Life of a war correspondent, South Africa

It was his eyes I remember best, carefully watching us through his glasses as he listened, and we spoke. It was the early 1980s. Apartheid was at its height. The power of white supremacy and the tyranny that went with it seemed unassailable.

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Massed voices of Regina Mundi spirit me back to dreadful days of 1984

A Day in the Life of a war correspondent, South Africa

I am grateful for the deep joy that Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika still evokes in me. I cannot help getting tears in my eyes when we sing our national anthem, a reminder that despite our present problems — and they are serious — not all is failure.

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