albertina sisulu

A woman of fortitude – Albertina Sisulu

As we bid farewell women’s month, let us reflect on this year’s centenarian Mama Sisulu’s strength and resilience, and how young women are taking...

South Africa’s Constitution Hill

Constitution Hill, a multi-faceted heritage precinct in the heart of Johannesburg, was built on the site of a century-old prison complex where the leaders of every major South African liberation group - Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi among them - were once detained.

Cheesekids help the less fortunate

Shaka Sisulu is living up to the names of his grandparents - both known for their humanity - by founding and running an organisation that prompts well-off youngsters to roll up their sleeves and get to work building a better world for those without their privileges.

Cheesekids help the less fortunate

Shaka Sisulu is living up to the names of his grandparents – both known for their humanity – by founding and running an organisation that prompts well-off youngsters to roll up their sleeves and get to work building a better world for those without their privileges.

Healing Africa’s broken hearts

Africa's young hearts celebrated life with freedom fighter Albertina Sisulu, at both her 91st birthday party and the opening of the Sheika Al Jalila House in Johannesburg.

Walter Sisulu’s Garden

The Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden outside Johannesburg has been renamed the Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, in honour of the freedom fighter who was also "the father of everyone" with whom he spent a quarter of a century behind apartheid's prison bars.

Walter & Albertina Sisulu

It took Elinor Sisulu nine years to write a biography of her parents-in-law, liberation icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu. "In Our Lifetime" is a story of persecution, bitter struggle and painful separation . and also one of patience, hope, enduring love and ultimate triumph.