It’s noon on Sunday, and the check-in area of the docked Epic Carnival Cruise ship buzzes with pre-carnival energy as I search for an outlet to charge my phone. Passengers fresh from last night’s Soca ...

"I've always been an activist against violence," Josina Machel said, "and felt I couldn't walk the streets without sharing my story." Josina Machel, the stepdaughter of Nelson Mandela and daughter of ...

As Nelson Mandela’s coffin was slowly lowered into the ground in the hills close to where he grew up, his widow, Graça Machel, crumpled with grief. There would, as is customary, be six more months of ...

Shakespeare, in one of Nelson Mandela's favourite lines, now strangely apposite, says that "the valiant never taste of death but once". As the world waits for Mandela to make his final rendezvous with ...

Many South Africans will say they have lost their tata, as in father. But amid the outpouring of emotion here and around the world, it is easy to forget that there is a woman mourning her husband.

I still remember the sound of the truck horns, the signature fast-paced tempos and pumping bass. It was Labor Day in 1997, and “Big Truck'' by Machel Montano and Xtatik was blasting through the ...

A formidable political operator in her own right and a renowned rights campaigner, Graca Machel took time to win over South Africans skeptical about the outsider who had won the heart of their adored ...

The global activist, who co-wrote a "Call to Action" open letter on the impact of the crisis on African women, was speaking from her home country of Mozambique. Graça Machel, who is also the founder ...