Caster Semenya’s grandmother remembers begging for money from friends and relatives to send the young runner to local athletics track events.
South Africans planned to rally in support of champion Caster Semenya, denouncing questions about whether she should be allowed to compete as a woman.
Amid signs the rest of the world may be recovering from the global financial crisis, Africa is still being hammered.
Some of the shack dwellers of Jeffsville recently had an idea: Why not stage a march to demand government housing?
New released images that provide a rare look inside a Zimbabwean prison show emaciated inmates too weak to stand
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/ 28 February 2009
At the city’s main train station, there was no denying Jacob Zuma can electrify a crowd. Commuters swarmed to snap pictures with cellphones.
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/ 22 February 2009
SA’s economic hub is the very model of a skyscraping major city. But Johannesburg also is a mecca for those with an interest in the pre-modern.
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/ 11 February 2009
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai takes the prime minister’s oath on Wednesday as part of a power-sharing agreement with President Robert Mugabe.
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/ 7 February 2009
Desmond Tutu said on Saturday that he doubts Zimbabwe’s unity government deal can work and insisted the solution is the departure Robert Mugabe.
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/ 28 December 2008
Fano Ephraim Mtshali hasn’t held a steady job since 1998 and claws out a living for his two children and his eight orphaned nieces and nephews.