June 19, 2025
South Africa: 'We're Falling Behind' - Kwazulu-Natal Students Struggle As Exams Disrupted By Funding Shortfall
After disruptions to the June examinations due to a funding crisis and a work-to-rule campaign by teachers, Grade 10 to 12 learners in KwaZulu-Natal began writing their exams on… Read more »
South Africa: Panyaza Lesufi's Nasi Ispani Plagued By Payment Chaos While Relaunch Looms
Less than a month after Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi announced that his highly criticised Nasi Ispani employment recruitment initiative would be relaunched, more information on… Read more »
June 18, 2025
South Africa: SA Water Polo Has the Right to Exist, Judge Rules in a Blow to Swimming SA's Interdict Bid
South African Water Polo could very well become the governing body of the sport after a vital court ruling. Read more »
South Africa: Loaded for Bear - Sihlobo Peels Off the Gloves and Busts SA Agriculture Myths in New Book
This book weeds out many of the myths about the platteland -- myths sprung from the manure spread by self-serving politicians that can find fertile soil in the withered fields of… Read more »
June 17, 2025
South Africa: From Anti-Apartheid to Antarctic Rights - - the Radical Legal Vision of Cormac Cullinan
The South African lawyer believes the melting continent should be recognised as a legal person. The growing momentum behind the idea -- and a major polar award -- suggests the… Read more »
June 16, 2025
Southern Africa: Southern African Countries Removed From UN 'Hunger Hotspot' List As Harvests Improve
For southern Africa at least, this is a welcome development which will blunt the twin blades of hunger and food inflation while lifting growth in economies that rely heavily on… Read more »
June 14, 2025
Southern Africa: South Africa's Big Three Stood Tall, Breaking the Proteas' ICC Tournament Curse Against Australia
While the whole team contributed, Temba Bavuma, Aiden Markram and Kagiso Rabada were the heroes in South Africa's (SA's) biggest-ever red-ball match. Read more »
September 06, 2021
South Africa: Mistrust and Fear Are the Major Drivers of Covid Vaccine Hesitancy, Says Market Research Firm
With one in three people indicating that they are unwilling to get vaccinated against Covid-19, it has emerged that mistrust in government and a fear of side effects are among the… Read more »
June 25, 2019
South Africa: Obscure Company Targets Coal Mining Project On Kruger Park Doorstep
A little-known company called Manzolwandle Investments wants to start coal mining operations on the doorstep of the Kruger Park's southern border, near Komatipoort. It has already… Read more »
February 06, 2019
Morocco: Morocco - Marching to a Different Beat
Casablanca is just a four-hour flight from Lagos. But it's a world away. Read more »
May 03, 2018
South Africa: Celebrating the Life of Ballet Star Johaar Mosaval At 90
Johaar Mosaval was the first black South African to become a senior principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, the highest rank in the profession at one of the world's most prestigious… Read more »
January 22, 2016
Congo-Kinshasa: The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the Ghosts of History and the Policing of Remembrance
January 17 marked the 55th anniversary of the US- and Belgian-orchestrated assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the first democratically elected prime minister of the Democratic… Read more »
May 21, 2014
South Africa: Gone but Not Forgotten - a Love Letter to Brenda
Brenda Fassie still has us in her thrall but we will never know her. Ten years after her untimely death in 2004, the Queen of African Pop, widely considered the most controversial… Read more »
August 15, 2012
Africa: Standing By to Standby - the African Peacekeeping Force With More Problems Than Solutions
The African Standby Force is a beautiful concept. The crack troops were meant to be the silver bullet for Africa's security problems, a rapid-response team able to get in and stop… Read more »
