An initiative to build a reliable business network across the continent has cut out European middlemen.
African hip-hop rappers seem to be the setting standard of how the music should be made internationally.
Who will win the Man Booker 2012? Whoever does, a number of very big names didn’t even make the long list, including Ian McEwan and Peter Carey.
A wage deal has been signed at the road freight bargaining council’s offices in Johannesburg, ending a three-week long truck drivers’ strike.
Despite their self-effacing name, the Kenyan outfit Just a Band are proving they are far more than that.
Two weeks ago Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh took a political gamble in opening the country’s retail sector to international competition.
As thunderstorms raged in the area last week, the symbolism was potent: the picket-line bonfire hissed and went out.
Trade has been the most important driver of international growth over the past 60 years and is a key to creating jobs in emerging markets such as SA.
It is not the first dance craze to ripple through West Africa, but the azonto style even has the Ghana soccer stars showing off their moves.
The accepted doctrine about how to create these annoying codes is failing our security, writes Oliver Burkeman.