The white Afrikaner administrator swept his hand out to show the poverty of the Transkei in South Africa: the round mud houses with their thatched cone roofs, the green hilly land that produced only a ...

The rolling green hills of the rural Transkei (see map) is the place Mandela thinks of as home; it is there he has built his retirement house. Growing up in the royal kraal of the Madiba clan, Mandela ...

Stella Sigcau, Minister of Public Works who died this week, cut her teeth on homeland politics and was involved with government from the late 1960s, when I was still at school. At that stage, the ...

The former Transkei region in the Eastern Cape is one of the poorest areas in South Africa. This region is well known throughout the world as a former Bantustan that was ruled by the Matanzima ...

The Transkei region in the Eastern Cape has one of the highest murder rates in the world‚ almost double the South African average. A study published in December in a UK journal‚ Medicine‚ Science and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

I couldn’t believe my luck when I came across freshly uploaded episodes of the popular late 1980s Xhosa drama Linempoxo Ke Isiko on YouTube recently. Since this fateful finding, I have travelled to a ...

The rolling green hills of the rural Transkei (see map) is the place Mandela thinks of as home; it is there he has built his retirement house. Growing up in the royal kraal of the Madiba clan, Mandela ...