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Coronavirus in Africa – What to Do During the Lockdown

Coronavirus in Africa – What to Do During the Lockdown

The COVID-19 Virus is also present in Africa and the WHO urges this issue to be taken seriously. All around the world governments have...
Sports Betting in Africa Debunked

Sports Betting in Africa Debunked

Many assume Africa is a continent delayed in the field of technology. Some have even assumed that wildlife is in every resident’s backyard. The...
Why it is important for communities to celebrate local art

Why it is important for communities to celebrate local art

Communities play an important role in the art industry, especially when it comes to supporting and nurturing African art. Once a community is supportive...
Thabo Mbeki: “The relationship between African and its ex-colonizers is illegal!”

Thabo Mbeki: “The relationship between African and its ex-colonizers is illegal!”

Charity begins at home, and Africans need to take the first bold steps to deal with problems affecting them instead of depending on the...
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South Africa: 40 years sentence, the heavy price for a rhinoceros’ horn trader!

Johannesburg’s court sentenced a rhino poacher to 40 years in prison; a heavy price to pay that might have a symbolic and discouraging impact...
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South Africa: an eye on Jacob Zuma!

The eight South African’s political parties that form the opposition agree to table motion of censure against the South African president, Jacob Zuma. Surprising! The...
South Africa mines strike continues

South Africa mines strike continues

South Africa police have fired rubber bullets and gas to dissolve about 1000 striking miners at leading platinum mine in South Africa . The striking miners...
Striking miners urge to return to work

Striking miners urge to return to work

A called has been made by South African president Jacob Zuma for mine workers to return to their various jobs after a series of...
South Africa rapper Maarohanye convicted for murder

South Africa rapper Maarohanye convicted for murder

South African rapper Molemo "Jub Jub" Maarohanye has been found guilty of murder and attempted murder after driving into a group of schoolchildren in...
Julius Malema, South Africa’s politicians reacts to allegation of  fraud

Julius Malema, South Africa’s politicians reacts to allegation of fraud

Julius Malema, South Africa’s politicians has heatedly react in response to finding carried out on him in absentia in a company he owns shares. Mr...
Police shot Striking mineworker in Rustenburg to dead

Police shot Striking mineworker in Rustenburg to dead

A mineworker at the Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) mine in Rustenburg has been shot dead at the hill on Thursday night. This incident took...
Harold Booysen accepts the memorandum for South Africa truck drivers

Harold Booysen accepts the memorandum for South Africa truck drivers

A march to hand over a memorandum to the road freight bargaining council has been organised on thursday morning by the Truck drivers in...
SOUTH AFRICA COMMISON BEGINS PROCEEDINGS ON MINERS DEAD

SOUTH AFRICA COMMISON BEGINS PROCEEDINGS ON MINERS DEAD

The strikes started in August at the mine in the northwest of the country as police opened fire on some protesters, killing 34 workers....
SOUTH AFRICAN  POLITICIAN JULUIS MALEMA CHARGED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICIAN JULUIS MALEMA CHARGED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING

The 31 year-old former youth leader of the African national congress has been charged by the South African court with money laundering but the...
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South Africa: Police launch an assault against minors Marikana

This Saturday, at two o'clock in the morning, at least 500 South African policemen have launched an assault against the places of residence of...
KPMG hosts “transacting in Africa” discussion panel

KPMG hosts “transacting in Africa” discussion panel

JOHANNESBURG, 30 July 2012 – With the 'Great Africa Business Migration' well under way, discussions around the realities of doing business on the continent...
South Africa: A dish way to cook in compliance with Kyoto protocol

South Africa: A dish way to cook in compliance with Kyoto protocol

Sun Fire Solutions presents a range on innovative Solar Lighting systems especially suitable to African not easy conditions of life. What is most important...
Labour: Time for SA’s Government to Start Listening

Labour: Time for SA’s Government to Start Listening

The FMF published an article more than a year ago saying that it was crisis time in South Africa. The country’s greatest crisis lies...
Southern African countries zero in on Gaddafi assets

Southern African countries zero in on Gaddafi assets

Following South Africa's decision to freeze all Gaddafi’s assets in accordance with UN Security Council resolution Zambia has sought clarification on whether the resolution...
Drug addicts turn to HIV drugs for lethal mix

Drug addicts turn to HIV drugs for lethal mix

Drug peddlers in South Africa have introduced a new deadly drug whose ingredients contain life-prolonging antiretrovirals for people infected with HIV, a move that...
Botswana diamond sector wage disparity favours South Africans?

Botswana diamond sector wage disparity favours South Africans?

World over, particularly in Africa, diamond deposits have often been a source of bloody conflicts. However, Bostwana, a largely desert southern African nation endowed...
Beyond sex: South African school girls seek ‘Fashionable Pregnancies”

Beyond sex: South African school girls seek ‘Fashionable Pregnancies”

Teenage school girls in South Africa say it’s more fashionable to fall pregnant while still a student because “you are like a fool ...
Fuel crisis hits Southern African countries amid protests

Fuel crisis hits Southern African countries amid protests

Malawians are bracing for demonstrations countrywide by end February to protest against persistent chronic fuel shortage saying they are prepared to be shot at....
Human trafficking and sex slave rings on the rise in Southern Africa

Human trafficking and sex slave rings on the rise in Southern Africa

Human trafficking between Zimbabwe and South Africa has reached alarming proportions as an average of 7000 people per month are said to be involved....
Huge marijuana plantation discovered in South Africa

Huge marijuana plantation discovered in South Africa

Police discoveries of marijuana plantations are becoming common in South Africa as hardly a week goes by without police “stumbling upon” them. A recent...
South African President urged to apologise for shocking blasphemy

South African President urged to apologise for shocking blasphemy

President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has found himself in a delicate situation with the Christian community after telling ANC supporters “that only an...
SA HIV campaign condemned as Zimbabwe announces soaring rates

SA HIV campaign condemned as Zimbabwe announces soaring rates

South African health authorities will soon lunch a highly criticised HIV testing campaign for schools. But Parents, backed by several groups, believe that the...
Nelson Mandela’s health causes unease

Nelson Mandela’s health causes unease

South Africa is in an uneasy state with news that former President Nelson Mandela is admitted to a Johannesburg hospital- Milpark Hospital. Official communication from...
Rise in Black enrollments overwhelm South African universities

Rise in Black enrollments overwhelm South African universities

Even as figures show huge leaps in the percentage of Black South Africans graduating from universities (a 334% increase compared to 14% for whites),...
Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia brace for more floods

Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia brace for more floods

Flood alerts have been issued across the Southern Africa region as heavy rains continue to pound the region. The rains have claimed more than...