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From jaw-dropping anecdotes about Idi Amin to hard-to-watch footage of body-strewn war zones, this isn’t just a chronicle of the ex-news anchor. It’s also a history of our times

Dame Ann reported on events including the Cold War, Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Afghanistan.

Nicole McGinley sustained injuries after falling down a flight of stairs at a blood donor centre on Nelson Mandela place. She was helped up by a woman who she says "saved" her life

India is no longer “lumbering around at a relatively slow pace”, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar said as he concluded his three-day visit to South Africa for a conclave of the five-nation BRICS grouping.

In Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty, his outstanding biography of the South African mining magnate who died in 2000, Michael Cardo shows that there is still mileage to be made in the study of dead white males who played a role in the making of South Africa. Based on…

MIAMI -- The snub of Nelson Mandela was the last straw.

I was about to set off to the airport on the morning of 10 April 1993 to cover the great American boxer Muhammad Ali’s arrival in Johannesburg when the news came through: Chris Hani had been murdered.

A powerful new book on Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has just been published. Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage is at once a double biography of South Africa’s two famous liberation leaders and a historical love story about their personal lives. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years during…

A beautiful and sad portrait of the Mandelas’ marriage of opposites is an insightful study of two huge characters, while a gripping and important book reveals how the ANC leader rescued his riven country from civil war