Durban, South Africa – Phumzile Nkosi often breaks into song when she takes visitors on a tour of the Phansi Museum. Or she will demonstrate Zulu ceremonial dances related to some of the artifacts and...
South Africa – When Reverend Nokuthula Dhladhla was a teenager, she lived in fear of what would happen if her church discovered she was a lesbian. She sat through sermons preaching about the sinfulness...
Joanne Joseph is an established South African news personality with more than 20 years of experience hosting radio and television shows for major South African broadcasters. In 2013, she published “Drug...
On Constitution Hill in central Johannesburg sits both the ruins of one of the country’s most oppressive prisons and its highest court, the Constitutional Court, each contributing to the story of South...
Lenasia, South Africa -- When Peter Joseph Cassidy, M. Afr., returned to South Africa last September after a 15-year absence from the country he had grown to love, he was hoping to see real change in the...
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...
Durban, South Africa — Tucked away on the second floor of a four-story shopping center in the Windermere suburb of Durban is a two-room office space lined with shoes.
This is the heart and sole of...
Durban, South Africa -- In a profession long dominated by white males, the new recruits in lifeguarding classes at Rachel Finlayson Swimming Pool in Durban stand out: They’re mostly black and female.
On...
Durban, South Africa—Hundreds of women lined Florida Road in central Durban on June 27, some waiting hours for a sample sale at The Hair Trader, a popular local wig shop. Some of the women had heard...
Lenasia South, South Africa – Seventy-year-old Ruth Mckina sat quietly along with about a dozen other patients in a post-op room in the Lenasia South Community Health Centre, about 25 miles south of...
Johannesburg, South Africa -- Gail Millard, owner of the Bounty Hunters Charity Shop, didn’t remember the customer’s name, but she remembered the woman’s story.
As the customer was dropping off...
The Bochabela String Project, which introduces children from marginalized communities in South Africa to string instruments, is based at the musical training school, Musicon, in the city of Bloemfontein,...
