MMABATHO, South Africa — The soaring, incongruous bleachers of Independence Stadium rise above this modern capital like the remnants of some vanished civilization. Nelson Mandela’s visit yesterday ...

The truth which evades Action SA leader Herman Mashaba was that former president of the Bophuthatswana homeland Lucas Mangope was corrupt. The interesting thing about hindsight is that it is not so ...

Former Bophuthatswana president Lucas Manyane Mangope’s death last week has sparked a debate on how history will remember him. The 94-year-old former statesman drew his last breath at his home in ...

Only hours before declaring once again that the old apartheid system is dead, President F. W. de Klerk on Friday enlarged the borders of the ”independent” black homeland of Bophuthatswana-one of ...

Like all of us, Lucas Mangope’s life trajectory had many exciting twists and turns. His illustrates a journey from the outskirts of a traditional village — Motsweding, in North West — to political ...

A former leader of a tribal homeland that was one of the Bantustans that helped to underpin South Africa’s apartheid system has died, local media reported on Friday. Lucas Mangope, 94, was president ...

A former leader of a black tribal homeland that was one of the so-called Bantustans that helped to underpin South Africa's apartheid system has died, local media reported on Friday. Lucas Mangope, 94, ...