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True blue: Nico Phooko transforms old denim garments into works of art with his signature technique using paint and bleach.  (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Nico Phooko: The music painter who makes art you can wear

Artist blends music and art to transform live performances into spontaneous masterpieces using his signature bleach technique on denim

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai arrives for the Kering Foundation’s second annual Caring for Women Dinner at The Pool in New York City on September 12, 2023. (Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Malala Yousafzai calls on SA to lead ‘gender apartheid’ fight

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George Bizos and Nelson Mandela.

George’s holiday in Greece with Madiba

In his book 65 Years of Friendship: A memoir of my friendship with Nelson Mandela, George Bizos tells of their only holiday together

Prioritise: Education on the African continent is riddled with problems, which Graça Machel says is because policies change too frequently. (Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

Continuity is key to fixing education

​The M&G went to the World Innovation Summit for Education to find out how other countries are dealing with education problems similar to SA’s

Graça Machel, a vocal advocate for women’s rights, understands that, to achieve the United Nations sustainable development goals, young women have to be empowered. (Gulshan Khan/AFP)

Ma Africa leads the way

Graça Machel is the example of someone reaching out to other women and lifting them up

Education Minister Naledi Pandor speaks at the Yidan Prize Summit, which is a platform for the global community to hold conversations about education.

Stalwarts shop for education ideas

Both Naledi Pandor and Graça Machel understand the challenges of the future and want to find ways of getting there

(Reuters)

Graça Machel stands up for girls’ education at Hong Kong summit

The former Mozambican education minister delivered a searing message for girls’ rights

Albertina Sisulu played a key role in South Africa’s liberation. (Lauren Mulligan Gallo/Images/Foto24)

Herstory needs to be rewritten and read

Women remain the wallpaper of history and are daily denied a voice in our patriarchal society

(Gemma Ritchie/M&G)

Obama’s Mandela salute

In your morning news roundup: Barack Obama has warned of the rise of ‘strongman politics’ and a brand of nationalism that threatens democracy.​​

David Harrison

Spending on education pays big dividends

But the predicted growth of countries in Africa will mean they won’t qualify for funding

Praise singers: Religious leaders are among those behind moves to register a pro-Zuma party to contest the polls.

Madikizela-Mandela dies with Qunu land ownership not fully settled

The struggle icon was never able to reclaim the land upon which the Qunu homestead of her former husband was built

Misunderstood: In his role as the surgeon-general

Rethink Mandela book recall

South Africa and the world are all the poorer for not having access to this important text. And I feel all the richer for it

(Finbarr O’Reilly/Reuters)

Mandela book withdrawn after outrage from Graça Machel

A new book detailing Nelson Mandela’s last days has been withdrawn, publisher Penguin Random House said on Monday.

A doctor listens to a tuberculosis patient at the Blue house clinic in the Mathare valley slums in Nairobi.

​The Elders fight for health for all, but especially for vulnerable groups

As the development economist and Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen argued in 2015, universal health coverage is “an affordable dream”.

Paradise on earth: Friendly staff at the One&Only cater to your every whim.

Memories of Madiba in Mauritius

No less than Madiba found balm for the soul in the magnificent milieu of Mauritius’s Le Saint Géran.

The Gender in Dialogue discussion takes place at the University of Cape Town

Watch: Gender in Dialogue talk convened by Graca Machel

The Gender in Dialogue discussion takes place at the University of Cape Town, starting at 10am. Watch it live.

On the final instalment of M&G Newsroom for 2013

Graca Machel speaks of her loss for the first time

Nelson Mandela’s widow talks of their love, her grief and how she censored the media so he would not read bad news about his beloved ANC.

Former president Nelson Mandela and Graca Machel in 2009.

Mandela’s wife Machel humiliated, sidelined – La Grange

Former president Nelson Mandela’s assistant Zelda La Grange has detailed incidents in which family in-fighting has left Graca Machel sidelined.

Mandela mourning period draws to a close

Former president Nelson Mandela’s family was expected in Qunu on Saturday to mark the end of the mourning period after his death in December.

Machel breaks Madiba mourning restrictions for kidnapped Nigerian girls

Graca Machel says she has broken the restrictions of her mourning for Nelson Mandela to plead with the world to find 276 girls kidnapped in April.