The white Afrikaner administrator swept his hand out to show the poverty of the Transkei in South Africa: the round mud houses with their thatched cone roofs, the green hilly land that produced only a ...

The rolling green hills of the rural Transkei (see map) is the place Mandela thinks of as home; it is there he has built his retirement house. Growing up in the royal kraal of the Madiba clan, Mandela ...

Filmmaker Milisuthando Bongela reexamines her childhood in apartheid South Africa in a documentary that doubles as a lyrical memoir. By Lovia Gyarkye Arts & Culture Critic Bongela sifts through her ...

Govan Archibald Mvunyelina Mbeki, political activist, journalist and teacher: born Transkei, South Africa 8 July 1910; chairman, African National Congress, 1957-64; married (two sons, one daughter, ...

The Transkei region in the Eastern Cape has one of the highest murder rates in the world‚ almost double the South African average. A study published in December in a UK journal‚ Medicine‚ Science and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...