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The new series ‘Shaka Ilembe’ is a chance for black South African filmmakers to tell the story from their own perspective

The sterile debate about whether Afrikaans is an indigenous language or not defines the language as a problem rather than as an opportunity.

Ancient Iron Mines in South Africa South Africa is known as the world’s richest resource of precious and industrial minerals.  It is conceivable that ancient civilizations were aware of this and that they had left evidence of their presence and use of these metals in southern Africa. Present consensus in SA is that the discovery of most metals is dated from the middle 1800s, but evidence abounds of deep mining operations thousands of years before then. The archaeologist Percy Wagner disting...