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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
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
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!”
Charity begins at home, and Africans need to take the first bold steps to deal with problems affecting them instead of depending on the...
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...
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 police have fired rubber bullets and gas to dissolve about 1000 striking miners at leading platinum mine in South Africa
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The striking miners...
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 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 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
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
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
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
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...
South Africa: Lonmin offers premium 140 euros for minors
Lonmin, the third largest producer of platinum, made a gesture to persuade the miners on striking to return to work after...
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
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
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
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
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 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?
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”
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Even as figures show huge leaps in the percentage of Black South Africans graduating from universities (a 334% increase compared to 14% for whites),...