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The film Green Book, which won this year’s Oscar for best film, explores road travel through racist America by African-Americans in the segregation era. It is based on The Negro Motorist Green Book, a compendium volume published for 30
By RAY HARTLE New Judge-President of the Eastern Cape Selby Mfanelo Mbenenge may be the master of understatement when he says some of the disputes that come before the high courts of the province are the result of failure. The
On a Monday morning in August, 2016, South African Wayde van Niekerk became the fastest person on earth across 400 meters of an athletics track, raising whoops of unbridled joy and admiration. I was left considering my own slow,
Fifty years ago, unbeknown to the world, the country stood poised to breach one of the most significant frontiers in medical science, the transplantation of a human heart from one person to another. Such a procedure – already perfected in
I’ve never been good at compromise, although I do try, sometimes, to ameliorate my stoic insistence on a particular action when someone else’s humanity is at stake. (To be clear, I agree that “no compromise” can also hide a tendency
(A composite article published in newspapers in April.) On October 11 last year, I received a donor heart in a transplant operation at the private Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town. I was the 216th heart recipient to come
I would never have been a fan of Professor Chris Barnard, growing up in the 1960s and ’70s. He was, after all, an Afrikaner male in a country ruled by Afrikaner men who made it their life’s mission to legally
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