South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa abandons May Day rally after booing
Chanting “Cyril must go,” they held up signs demanding a wage increase during a ceremony in a stadium near the north-western city of Rustenburg.
As the world moves towards ending AIDS as a public health threat by 2030, key populations who include people in prison settings, remain underserved. UNAIDS considers gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people, people who inject drugs and prisoners and other incarcerated people as the five main key population groups that are particularly vulnerable to HIV and frequently lack adequate access to services.
MATABELELAND region will experience normal to below normal rainfall in the first and second period of the rainy season, the Meteorological Department said yesterday
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has no links with the Gupta family, under fire for allegedly exerting undue influence on the government, and did not at any point introduce the family to his successor, President Jacob Zuma, the Thabo Mbeki Foundation said on Monday.
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape has endorsed and “wholeheartedly” accepted President Jacob Zuma’s apology around the Nkandla debacle.
The African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape has endorsed and “wholeheartedly” accepted President Jacob Zuma’s apology around the Nkandla debacle.
Many of South Africa’s 300-odd state entities are a drain on the government’s purse.
The EFF has rejected President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla proposal and accuses him of trying to influence the Constitutional Court judges.
The government has said the upgrades were made to boost security South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has agreed to repay some of the $23 million
In South Africa, schoolgirls who get pregnant are encouraged to finish their education, but in practice many drop out and never return.
Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of murder after a South African appeals court overturned an earlier manslaughter verdict.
A judge has sentenced eight South African policemen to 15 years in prison for the murder of a Mozambican taxi driver.
Oscar Pistorius’s defence lawyer was inadvertently recorded telling his opposite number “I am going to lose”
The shocking wild celebrations of the punishment of Julius Malema, the criminalisation of his important political discourses and his demonisation by the media in South Africa and beyond, are a spectacularly painful paradox that compares to the celebration of the collective funeral of the poor in Africa. The widespread obsession with Malema’s alleged twisted business […]
MASERU — Flagging economic fortunes and a persistent Aids pandemic have devastated Lesotho, leaving little hope it will ever be able to pull itself out of its bleak poverty trap. Three out of five of the tiny Southern African kingdom’s children are living in dismal poverty. Every fourth child is orphaned. As soon as the […]
MASERU — Flagging economic fortunes and a persistent Aids pandemic have devastated Lesotho, leaving little hope it will ever be able to pull itself out of its bleak poverty trap. Three out of five of the tiny Southern African kingdom’s children are living in dismal poverty. Every fourth child is orphaned. As soon as the […]
South Africa pledged on Thursday to work with the United Nations and Arab states to help bring stability to Libya, after earlier refusing to recognise the country’s new rulers. “South Africa stands ready to assist in any way possible so that Libya can return to normalcy,” President Jacob Zuma said. “This office will work with […]
South Africa’s ruling ANC kicked out its firebrand Youth League leader, Julius Malema, from the party for five years on Thursday after finding him guilty of dividing and bringing the 99-year-old liberation movement into disrepute. The decision to send him into the political wilderness dealt a major blow to the career of Malema, whose push […]
JOHANNESBURG — The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), Africa’s biggest bourse, has sacked the head of its equity derivatives business for irregular trading on his own account. Allan Thomson was dismissed last Friday following an investigation into his trading activity and a disciplinary process, exchange operator JSE Ltd said in a statement. Thomson said he had […]
MOUNT MULANJE — Changing weather patterns are undermining the ability of smallholder producers in Malawi’s southern region to grow tea, a crop that usually brings in 70% of their income, according to local farmers interviewed for a recent Fairtrade study. The soils, climatic conditions and sloping ground of the area around the impressive Mount Mulanje, […]
JOHANNESBURG — There will shortly be a new player on the African mining and exploration business — that is E Oppenheimer & Son which manages the assets of the Oppenheimer family. De Beers chairman Nicky Oppenheimer said he and son Jonathan intended using the $5,1bn proceeds from the sale of the Oppenheimer family stake in […]
JOHANNESBURG — Gauteng police were monitoring the situation in Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, west of Pretoria, yesterday morning after foreigners had to be evacuated for their safety. “The situation is very calm, but we don’t want to take any chances and police are monitoring the situation,” said police spokesperson Captain Pinky Tsinyane. On Thursday […]
JOHANNESBURG — Gauteng police were monitoring the situation in Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, west of Pretoria, yesterday morning after foreigners had to be evacuated for their safety. “The situation is very calm, but we don’t want to take any chances and police are monitoring the situation,” said police spokesperson Captain Pinky Tsinyane. On Thursday […]
There has been jubilation among Malawians after reports trickled in that Libya’s deposed dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi died after being captured with many people seeing it as a good omen for a hopeful Malawi which is undeniably reverting to dictatorship. Abdel Majid, a senior official at interim government the National Transitional Council (NTC), told television […]
JOHANNESBURG South African political firebrand Julius Malema was discharged from hospital, SABC news reported on Sunday, paving the way for his disciplinary hearing with the ruling ANC to resume this week. Malema was admitted to a private hospital in his home province of Limpopo — about 400 kilometres from Johannesburg — with flu-like symptoms, the […]
CAPE TOWN — South Africa has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30% of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them by the government, a cabinet minister said yesterday. Land ownership is a sensitive issue in South Africa and has been brought into focus by the decline […]
CAPE TOWN — South Africa has reversed gains in its goal of transferring 30% of commercial farmland to blacks by 2014 after aspirant farmers resold land bought for them by the government, a cabinet minister said yesterday. Land ownership is a sensitive issue in South Africa and has been brought into focus by the decline […]
The Africa Project for Participatory Society (APPS) has joined hands with People Against Suffering, Oppression and Poverty (Passop) to lobby South Africa against mass deportation of undocumented Zimbabweans staying illegally in that country. The groups said mass deportations of illegal immigrants could spark xenophobic attacks. In a report titled Enquiry Concerning South African Residents’ Perceptions […]
