by Charu Thakur | Jul 13, 2025
(July 13, 2025) One January morning in 1908, a crowd gathered outside a Johannesburg courthouse. Inside, two men stood trial — one a young lawyer from India, the other a Tamil merchant from Mauritius. Both had refused to comply with the colonial government’s new...
by Darshana Ramdev | Oct 9, 2024
(October 9, 2024) Vivian Reddy’s first memories are of the narrow, dusty streets of Greenwood Park, Durban. Born in 1953 into a family of nine children, his father, a schoolteacher, earned a meager R3 a month, barely enough to sustain them. Young Reddy saw the...
by Namrata Srivastava | Oct 21, 2023
(October 21, 2023) 2018 – the South African cricket team found themselves in a tough spot during their second test match against Sri Lanka in Colombo. While it looked like the game was slipping away from the Proteas, a young player, Keshav Maharaj, emerged as...
by Charu Thakur | Jun 9, 2023
(June 9, 2023) “Kept this a secret for a while now. I am honoured to say that I was chosen as an artist to be part of this historic project. My drawing of southern right whales was selected for the new South African 5 Rand coin. From numismatists, designers,...
by Charu Thakur | Oct 14, 2022
(October 14, 2022) If Mastercard’s New Payment Index 2022 is to be believed, 95 percent of consumers in South Africa used at least one emerging digital payment method in the last year and 67 percent of consumers have purchased from an online marketplace. The purpose...
