“Nelson Mandela used his personal charm… to mould our widely diverse communities into an emerging multicultural nation.” - FW de Klerk
Mr de Klerk was awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize along with Mr Mandela. In 1994 de Klerk, the former South African president handed over power to Mandela to become the country’s first black president. [...]

(IRIN) - In the aftermath of the xenophobic violence that erupted in South Africa in May, the “reintegration” of displaced people into their communities became a buzz phrase, but with few concrete ideas as to how that could be achieved. Paarl, a town in the Western Cape Province’s winelands, may have figured out a way.
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The Carnegie Corporation-funded African Online Journal Archive is the first free-use scholarly content website to contain purely African material. The full-text repository will include journals containing important African research across a number of fields, including medicine, the social sciences and environment.

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’s £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the “new” South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
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It is essential that Africa and Africans resist being commanded by ethnic-European diktats, interests and standards. It has to be realised that it is a human trait for people to grab as much as they can for as little as they can.
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South Africa: Jessica Mbangeni is one of South Africa’s highly sort after female Imbongi (praise poet) – and is currently making waves with a slate of high-profile live performances that have cemented her global reputation as one of the country’s most gifted creative talents.
That she stands alone in a cultural terrain dominated by men is [...]

Celebrations marking Mandela’s 90th birthday kicks off in London.