The Thinking Garden

A discovery of the pictorial art that Ndebele women traditionally practice in South Africa: painting the walls of their houses.

The Big Fat Fix (www.thebigfatfix.com) investigates and uncovers the forgotten secrets of health and longevity from the tiny Italian village of Pioppi...

The untold story of South Africa's blackfoot Penguins.

The African penguin is the only penguin that lives on the African continent. It was known as the jackass penguin because of its donkey-like call. This...

The Fall tells the remarkable story of a South African barefoot runner, an American track-and-field prodigy, and the events behind one of the most mem...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitler’s, a leader of the notorious SA and the Third Re...

Fifteen years ago, a handful of African Penguins, normally found only on remote islands off the Southern African coast, stumbled across on of the Cape...

Explores the history of the Afrikaners and Afrikaner nationalism, and the development of apartheid and its relevance to South Africa's political situa...

Entertainer Nathan Kennedy, who speaks Gayle, the South African cant that flourished during the Apartheid era, meets Louis van Brakel, a much older us...

Eugene de Kock, nicknamed "Prime Evil," was South Africa's most notorious government assassin under the apartheid regime. A highly decorated and power...

Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia),September 18th, 1961. Swedish Dag Hammarskjöld, UN Secretary-General, mysteriously dies in a plane crash....

Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors.

In Freedom Park, a squatter settlement near the platinum mines in SA, a network of former sex workers create Tapologo. They learn to be Home Based Car...

How do white South Africans deal with their fears of crime and violence? Like crocodiles, some survive without evolving, living with their fears. Othe...