Soweto’s young cyclists show their mettle
The Soweto Cycling Academy was started to get children on bikes. Now its young members are beginning to compete in South Africa’s top races, with an eye on a busy 2022 calendar.
Stories by: Outlwile Tsipane
Keo’s success was just a hop, skip and a jump away
Accomplished athlete, coach and sport administrator Keolebogile Mokolopo has set her sights on rope skipping to be taken seriously, including at future Olympic Games.
Mncedisi Shabangu, theatre’s all-round master
The multi-award-winning actor cannot wait to perform in the William Kentridge epic The Head & The Load, but meanwhile the multidimensional artist continues to awe while honing his craft on television.
Andrew Babeile: A pain-filled life of jarring notes
In the first of a two-part series, the former pupil of Hoërskool Vryburg reflects on what happened there 21 years ago, which has influenced everything in his life since.
Madibane High School, 80 years on
The high school in Diepkloof, Soweto, has survived countless apartheid laws, an eviction, relocations and the student uprising of 1976 during its 80 years of existence. Will it keep standing?