Nelson Mandela

Lifelong politician Pieter Willem Saaiman died on Wednesday 20 October 2021 in Tshwane aged 70. In defying age and in contrast to many a high-profile public office he occupied in over three decades, he transitioned serving at the coalface as an ANC ward councillor and Chief Whip in the Siyathemba Local Municipality. The municipality’s seat of power…

In a historic move reflective of South Africa’s shared liberation credentials and political heritage, the Kimberley Hospital Complex was renamed the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Hospital. The iconic founder of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) reportedly died from lung cancer at the hospital on 27 February 1978 aged 53, having been banished to…