Africans again dominated distance running at the Beijing Olympic Games thanks to Kenya and Ethiopia, but athletes pleaded for more funding.
Finishing last at the Olympics is as big a triumph as winning medals for many athletes from Africa.
Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry, who won silver in the Olympic 400m individual medley on Sunday, said she would never compete for another country.
African athletes are accustomed to Beijing’s steamy temperatures and count themselves among the few who are unconcerned about the weather.
Most people in Given Maduma’s community didn’t know what fencing was when news spread that the young South African had qualified for the Olympics.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation quickened to a new five-and-half-year high of 10,9% year-on-year in May from 10,4% in April.
South Africa’s targeted CPIX inflation is seen accelerating to a new five-and-a-half-year in May on persistently high food and fuel prices.
The slow pace of regional integration and poor infrastructure are hampering trade between countries in Africa, delegates at a World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting said on Friday.
The leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) met labour and Communist allies on Friday for a summit aimed at healing rifts that have emerged under the rule of President Thabo Mbeki. Investors are spooked by the prospect the ANC could surrender to the left’s calls for a shift away from the business-friendly policies pursued by Mbeki.
South Africa’s economic confidence fell to a five-and-a-half year low in April, weighed down by expectations of slower growth, higher inflation and a longer cycle of tighter monetary policy, a poll showed on Thursday. The monthly survey of 20 economists showed the Reuters Econometer dived to 207,50 last month, its lowest since November 2002.