Africa: The Hidden Neuroscience Behind Workplace Feedback

Why performance reviews and feedback can feel like physical threats. Read more »

Africa: Records Tumble As Kusche Stuns Field and Steyn Claims Historic Fifth Comrades Title

South African athletes triumphed in the Comrades as George Kusche won the 'up run' in record time, while Gerda Steyn secured a historic fifth title, breaking her own record, again. Read more »

Africa: Looming Carnage - On the Dangerous Anti-Migrant Mobilisation in South Africa

The chaos that threatens to explode from this mobilisation will devastate not only migrants but all poor people and workers. Only reactionary political forces will benefit from… Read more »

Africa: 'They Thought We Were Terrorists' - - Mexican Sports Journalists Home After SA Drone Arrests

Two Mexican sports journalists who were arrested in Gauteng, allegedly because they flew a drone over a Jewish college, have pleaded guilty, paid a fine, and returned home. They… Read more »

Africa: Meet the Nigerian Oncologist Helping to Fight Cancer in KZN and Across Africa

Propelled by an early vision to help others, Dr Abba Mallum tells Spotlight about his roots in Borno State, about opportunities in Stellenbosch and Durban, and about his pioneering… Read more »

Africa: Proposed School History Syllabus Focuses On Africa As the Main Story, Not a Sidebar to Western History

The move from the old curriculum is contentious, but is also a necessary and useful redirection. Read more »

Africa: Dozens of New Species Found in One of Africa's Last Biodiversity Blank Spots

A major survey of Angola's remote Lisima plateau has uncovered species unknown to science, including new dragonflies, grasshoppers, moths and butterflies, confirming the highlands… Read more »

Africa: African Fintech's Winning Formula - Build for the Constraint, Not the Fantasy

At the RMB Think Summit 2026 this week, Michael Jordaan's argument about African fintech success was not the usual glossy conference pitch about apps, disruption and clever code.… Read more »

Africa: Hidden Economies of the Wild - From Worms to Frankincense

Can conservation pay for itself and create meaningful livelihoods beyond fenced protected areas? Researchers and entrepreneurs across southern and east Africa are exploring ways… Read more »

Africa: Beyond Infrastructure - Training the Biosecurity Leaders Africa Needs

As natural outbreaks, laboratory accidents and the deliberate misuse of biological agents converge into an increasingly complex threat environment, Africa's ability to prevent,… Read more »

Africa: How South Africa's Xenophobic Online Machine Was Rebooted in 2026

Recent events did not create SA's xenophobic online machine. They reveal how entrenched, interconnected and politically influential that machine has already become. Read more »

Africa: Arsenal's Global Community Shows What Social Cohesion Can Still Look Like

Far beyond entertainment, sport has repeatedly demonstrated a unique ability to unite people across divisions of race, class, geography and generation. Arsenal's 2025/26 Premier… Read more »

Africa: African Ambassadors Clarify Africa Day Plans Amid Rising Xenophobic Tensions

In response to xenophobic tensions, African ambassadors clarify they are postponing their own Africa Day celebrations for security reasons, not boycotting the main event in South… Read more »

Africa: Africa Must Turn Trust and Critical Minerals Into Factories, Jobs and Lasting Growth

South Africa's G20 presidency last year revived an old and uncomfortable question: If Africa has been "rising" for more than two decades, why has so much of that promise failed to… Read more »

Africa: BRICS Members At Odds Over Iran War, but Lamola Insists Bloc Retains Solidarity

Sharp divisions over the Iran war challenge BRICS unity, yet Minister Ronald Lamola asserts that the group remains solid despite differing views among its members. Read more »

Africa: African Children Bear the Brunt of a Crisis They Did Not Create

As global health leaders gather this month for the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the question is no longer whether climate change threatens health. Africa needs climate action… Read more »

Africa: Is South Africa Ready for Institutional Digital Assets?

Digital assets are no longer a fringe conversation in South Africa's financial sector. At the Luno Institutional Digital Assets Conference (LIDAC26) in Cape Town on 11 June 2026,… Read more »

Africa: South Africa Ready to Defend Itself Against Xenophobia Charges At AU

Ghana has asked the African Union to address 'xenophobic attacks' in South Africa. Minister Ronald Lamola has welcomed the opportunity to raise broader migration issues. Read more »

Africa: Bitget Wallet Expands Crypto Card Availability to South Africa

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, today announced the expansion of its crypto card in South Africa. The card lets users spend crypto directly from a self-custodial wallet at… Read more »

Africa: Another MV Hondius Patient Tests Positive for Hantavirus As Ship Heads for Canary Islands

A new case of hantavirus has emerged on the MV Hondius, raising concerns among health authorities regarding human-to-human transmission. Read more »

Africa: From Aid Dependency to Health Sovereignty - - Africa's Urgent Call to Own Its HIV Response

Africa has to make a critical shift towards self-sufficiency in addressing its HIV challenges, emphasising the need for ownership, sustainable financing and strengthened health… Read more »

Africa: More Nations Plan to Call Out South Africa Govt Over Xenophobic Violence

As the number of xenophobic attacks rises, Mozambique is expected to become the latest African country to complain to Pretoria about the alleged mistreatment of its citizens.… Read more »

Africa: Hate On Parade - Xenophobic Marches Gather Pace As UN Warns South Africa

Across major cities, political entrepreneurs like Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Zandile Dabula are staging increasingly bold anti-migrant marches, with little pushback from authorities.… Read more »

Africa: Why Investing in Africa's Media Leadership Is the Best Way to Navigate Disruption

For Africa's media houses, 2026 represents a definitive tipping point. The triple threat of revenue model collapse, platform dependency, and the relentless surge of generative AI… Read more »

Africa: Speaking Truth to Power - Why the Catholic Church Won't Be Silenced By Trump

SA's Cardinal Brislin slams the US president's attacks on Pope Leo XIV, insisting the papacy is not political theatre. Read more »