South Africa’s school pit latrine scandal: Why children are drowning
During his first week at school, five-year-old Michael Komape drowned in a pit latrine in northern South Africa.
That day in January 2014 will be...
PC Sorcar: India’s ‘maharajah of magic’ who terrified the UK
At 9.15pm on 9 April 1956, the BBC’s switchboard suddenly lit up with calls from hundreds of viewers convinced they had just witnessed a...
Why Ghanaians are so slow to bury their dead
In our series of letters from African journalists, writer Elizabeth Ohene considers why bodies are not buried for months, sometimes years, in Ghana.
This past...
The sign language lawyer who became a social media star
When a lawyer posted a video in sign language about the danger of Ponzi schemes, his post went viral and hundreds of deaf people...
South African ‘world’s oldest man’ wants to stop smoking
Fredie Blom spent most of his life as a labourer - on a farm and in the construction industry - in apartheid South Africa...
