Karabo kgoleng biography of albert
Maria (not her real name) was born in Johannesburg in to a serious, disciplined stay-at-home mother, Donna, and a more playful yet hard-....
Karabo Kgoleng was interviewing Rica Hodgson on SAfm Literature, which was appropriate because tomorrow is Women's Day, which celebrates.
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It has been 25 years since the first democratic elections in South Africa. With the 2019 elections around the corner, Karabo Kgoleng shares her memories from 27 April 1994.
Although I was only 13 years old, the importance of South Africa’s first democratic election was definitely not lost on me.
The reason we lived in Botswana, and not at home in South Africa, had everything to do with that moment.
From 11 February 1990, when Mandela was released from prison, every day was a build-up to 27 April 1994. My father was almost 61 years old, and my mother was 44.
My piano teacher was also a South African refugee, and so was one other clergy member whose kids attended school with us, as well as two medical doctors and their families, and a few teachers. There were also South Africans who had married Batswana.
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