Durban, South Africa – When Selvan Naidoo takes visitors on a tour of the 1860 Heritage Centre in Durban, which he directs, he recounts a story about searching archives for information about his ancestors.
In...
Kiley O’Brien, Assistant Features Editor
• July 18, 2024
Durban, South Africa – Chacko Shabalala’s story is one that keeps staff at the Denis Hurley Centre focused on their mission to help men living on the streets in Durban.
Growing up in a relative’s...
Durban, South Africa – About 30 volunteers gathered June 29 at Anstey’s Beach for a beach cleanup sponsored by the Wildlife and Environmental Society of South Africa (WESSA).
Eight-year-old...
Durban, South Africa — A group of teachers huddled around a supply table filled with original art, 3D models and insect specimens in the Livingston Primary School library
Days before the winter...
Durban, South Africa — Nosizwe Mji, co-founder of The Toolbox yoga studio, began her yoga journey following a near-fatal car accident in 2006, her last year at the University of Cape Town. After two...
Lenasia, South Africa — Tucked in a strip mall off Robin Avenue in Lenasia is a takeout eatery with an eye-catching red and yellow awning that boasts of low-priced Indian vegetarian fast foods and savory...
Durban, South Africa — After a two-year hiatus due to the covid-19 pandemic, Durban Pride returned to Gugu Dlamini Park in central Durban on June 25.
About 300 people chanted, sang and marched...
Durban, South Africa -- The seven-acre estate in Harrison Valley that Rick James purchased nearly 30 years ago came with neglected coffee trees scattered about its slopes. Its prior owner had injured his...
Durban, South Africa -- For the students of Zanele Nsindane, an educator and head of the art department at Phakathi Secondary School in the township of Klaarwater, art offers an escape.
Some students...
South Africa -- Shamla Pather stirred a large pot of mutton curry in the kitchen of her restaurant in Lenasia South, an apartheid-era Indian settlement about 20 miles southwest of Johannesburg. Three...
Durban, South Africa -- Buyiseile Mthethwa can’t sleep if it’s raining.
Instead, she lies awake, paralyzed by fear and grief and memories of the night she lost her 14-year-old son.
“I can still...
Durban, South Africa -- After a cancer diagnosis in 2014 that left her unable to work, Nonhlanhla Joye, the sole breadwinner in her household, planted a vegetable garden in her backyard in order to provide...
