After weeks of vandalism and battles between township residents and police, Jacob Zuma asked South Africans on Saturday to desist from violence.
After years when billions have been spent on aid in Africa, donors are now picking up on a new trend to put their money on the continent’s entrepreneurs.
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/ 12 October 2008
South Africans are rapidly losing patience with a divided ruling party seen as arrogant and greedy.
There is a free concert in Johannesburg on Sunday. It is Africa Day and leading artists from across the continent will perform live.
Senior sources in Sierra Leone believe Britain is about to freeze a £15-million payment to the West African nation amid evidence of endemic corruption that has seen millions of pounds in aid line the pockets of dishonest officials while ordinary people struggle in conditions of catastrophic poverty .