July 24, 2022
South Africa: Interest Rate Hike Will Further Increase the Heavy Load On Debt-Stressed Consumers
Struggling consumers will face greater financial pressure after the South African Reserve Bank announced on 21 July that interest rates would increase by 75 basis points (bps),… Read more »
South Africa: ANC KZN - Jubilant 'Taliban Faction' Takes Control of the Troubled Province After a Stormy Weekend
A confident majority of the 1,607 delegates to the ANC's elective conference in KwaZulu-Natal expressed their support for former president Jacob Zuma when they voted in former… Read more »
Africa: Do the Commonwealth Games Still Matter in 2022?
Birmingham is hosting the 22nd edition of an event that harks back to the heyday of the British Empire. Read more »
South Africa: Strong SA Contingent Intent On Big Commonwealth Medals Haul
Team South Africa is raring to go at the Games in Birmingham this week. Read more »
South Africa: Long Walk to WAFCON Glory - Grit and Guile Key to Banyana Banyana Success
Banyana Banyana clinched their maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations crown on Saturday 23 July, finally ending a wait of two decades for the title of African Queens. Read more »
South Africa: Ingrid Jonker Prize Winner Jacques Coetzee On Political Awakening, Blindness, Poetry and Music
Coetzee has been writing poetry and singing since he was a child, spurred on by his mother's readings to the family of action-driven narrative poems and by his two older sisters'… Read more »
South Africa: 'I Am' Movement of 7,000 Health Workers Demands Systemic Changes
The 'I Am' movement cannot be ignored. Backed by nearly 7,000 health workers, it is calling for concrete changes to systemically fix the falling-apart public healthcare system.… Read more »
South Africa: 'Taliban' Win Shoves ANC KZN Further Away From Reality - and Voters
The public show of support for former President Jacob Zuma displayed by delegates at the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal conference over the weekend demonstrates just how different the… Read more »
South Africa: Two People Killed in Tshwane in Yet Another Tavern Shooting
At least 23 people have been shot dead in or around taverns across South Africa this month with the grisly count increasing overnight after two people were killed in Ga-Rankuwa,… Read more »
Africa: Pioneering Study Attributes U.S.$6-Trillion in Global Warming-Related Economic Losses to USA, China and Others
The first study to assess the economic impacts that individual countries have caused on other countries - through their contributions to global warming - shows that five national… Read more »
South Africa: A Blow to Ramaphosa As Zuma's 'Taliban' Slate Sweep KZN Elections
New leaders of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal were announced in the early hours of Sunday and they are not allies of party president Cyril Ramaphosa. A completely new leadership - from… Read more »
July 22, 2022
Zambia: Zambia On the Brink of Historic Debt Relief Deal
The deal that Zambia strikes with its many international creditors could set a precedent for Africa. Read more »
July 21, 2022
South Africa: Confident Wayde Van Niekerk Makes World Champs 400m Final
Five years of injury and setbacks have plagued his career since the 2017 triumph in London, which included elimination at the semi-final stage at Tokyo 2020 (held in 2021). But the… 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 »