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San Master Tracker Xui finds signs of the ghost elephants in a stretch of wetlands. (Credit: Ariel Leon Isacovitch)

‘Ghost Elephants’ explores nature, myth and memory

A haunting journey into Angola’s wild highlands, ‘Ghost Elephants’ follows Steve Boyes and KhoiSan master trackers as they search for a mythical elephant

  • Eyaaz
4 min read
Strumming: Pops Mohamed playing the kora. The globally renowned South African musician died on 4 December 2025, just days before his 76th birthday. Photo: Siphiwe Mhlambi

Remembering Pops Mohamed

Tributes pour in for the multi-instrumentalist who blended African traditions with modern sounds

  • Eyaaz
7 min read
Housouana Woman, engraving from Travels into the Interior of Africa Via the Cape of Good Hope by Le Vaillant

The vanished Eden of SA’s first people

François le Vaillant painted a uniquely vivid picture of Khoikhoi tribes on the brink of settler-colonial genocide

  • Des Erasmus
9 min read