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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...
Arms cache in South Africa biggest in recent years
South African police have unearthed a massive stockpile of rifles, rocket launchers and hand grenades from a house occupied by serving soldiers and policemen.
The...
Ivory Coast: South African pastors to the rescue
A delegation of South African clerics has flown to troubled Ivory Coast in a bid to mediate in the political standoff claiming that chances...
Zimbabweans in South Africa risk deportation after passport office fire
A centralized governance system in Zimbabwe has come under attack by
citizens after the southern African country's entire passports processing center was gutted by fire,...
South Africa: A deliberate move to deport Zimbabwean immigrants?
Thousands of Zimbabweans living in South Africa face a gloomy Christmas as they have just under 10 days left before a December 31 deadline...
Africa’s big social media explosion
In the mid-1990s, as the use of mobile phones spread in much of the developed world, few thought of Africa as a potential market....
South African prez sues over political cartoon
South Africa's president has filed a £440,000-defamation suit over a cartoon depicting him with his trousers undone, preparing to rape a blindfolded, female figure...
Wikileaks cites Tsvangirai, Museveni anti-Mugabe campaign
Zimbabwe’s premier Morgan Tsvangirai privately urged Western countries to maintain sanctions against the southern African nation but publicly back calls for their removal, latest...
Football and Sex: 2010 World Cup unsettles a myth
The month long grand feast of the FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 in June was viewed as having presented a money spinning platform...
African stocks triple on international exchanges
NYSE Euronext Inc. — the home of the New York Stock Exchange and other exchanges — has seen a threefold increase in the trading...
Mobile clinics in Southern African region to fight HIV-AIDS
Southern African region which carries the highest burden of the deadly HIV-AIDS in the world is planning to launch a string of mobile HIV/AIDS...
South Africa’s cabinet wage bill at all time high
An Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers is awaiting Jacob Zuma’s approval after recommending that South African Vice president Kgalema Motlanthe’s...
ANC debunks report on South Africa’s crime ‘culture’
South Africa’s history of apartheid has been blamed for fermenting a vicious culture of violence that is now deemed as normal way of life.
A...
South African incomes not reflecting economic growth
An income level study done in South Africa has shown that a majority of adults earn below R50 000 a...
SIM card registration: A chance to formalize an informal economy, digitally
A growing number of sub-Saharan African countries – South Africa, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and more recently, Ghana – now require that...
Mapona: An all-Black porn film to fight HIV/AIDS
Armed with condoms and HIV prevention tools, Tau Morena, a pornographic film producer from South Africa, has decided to take his battle against AIDS...
South Africa: ANC in panic mode?
Ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa has been unsettled by a massive civil society conference, where plans to set up a new...
South African ’94 election results were tempered with
Former South African electoral commissioner Peter Harris has made shock disclosures that the country's 1994 results were tampered with by a hacker to...
Swine/H1N1 Flu resurfaces in Southern Africa
The southern African nation of Zimbabwe’s health infrastructure has come under the spotlight after a new outbreak of the deadly influenza H1N1, commonly known...
Ian Khama, from Mugabe critic to advocate?
Botswana President Ian Khama, a strident critic of his southern
counterpart Robert Mugabe, seems to be "slowly awakening to an African
cause" as he begins touring...
Sustainable environmental development in Africa gets international backing
South African researchers are benefitting from a unique partnership between NASA and agencies in Africa and Europe that is sending more than 30 terabytes...
Ethiopia, Ghana and ten African countries get medical education grants
The United States will invest $130 million over the next five years to transform African medical education and increase the number of health care...
An Eurocentric Nobel Prize and African literature
African literature is generally ignored by the Nobel committee. Since 1901, only four writers from the continent have been rewarded, two of whom...
Jacob Zuma, No more a South African hero
South Africa President Jacob Zuma's approval rating has dropped to a new low of 42 percent in the last three months, according to...
African penguin gets a new lease of life
The African penguin, a bird native to Namibia and South Africa, is now listed as an endangered species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act...
Africa to get ready for heavy international investments
Africa is the “last frontier of international investment,” and Africans need to be ready to make choices and take action to take advantage of...
South African President Jacob Zuma faces ultimatum
President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has is left with only three weeks to mend fences with powerful labour movement Cosatu and the ANC...
Maputo riots blamed on rising wheat prices in Southern Africa
Food riots in Maputo, Mozambique on Wednesday left at least six protesters dead including a female student as police sprayed bullets at demonstrators.
Reports from...
Ancient arrows and Africa’s place as the cradle of technology
A team of archaeologists led by Dr. Marlize Lombard from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa have discovered the first direct evidence of...
South Africa’s battle against cowardice
Considering the new wave of xenophobic attacks against black Zimbabweans, some black South Africans now have conceded that they are a brood of insecure,...