Soweto’s first outdoor gym has caught on with many residents who are determined to lose their flab without signing expensive gym contracts.
A bid to have Venda’s Lake Fundudzi declared a heritage site has been met by suspicion by locals who want to shield the mystical site from outsiders.
Like many rural areas in the country, running water in Tshiavha village is scarce, but school-based fog harvesting nets have brought some relief.
Bangladeshi immigrant Hashim Abdullah peers behind the thick iron bars of the security barrier between himself and his customers.
Almost half a century ago, Nelson Mandela walked 20 paces from the kitchen of his hideout north of Johannesburg and dug a pit and buried a pistol.
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/ 22 February 2011
Oil revenues have made Angola one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa, but the high cost of living makes life difficult for many.
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/ 16 January 2011
An intoxicated boy shuffles along a teeming street in Luanda casually gulping vapours from a plastic bottle that contains petrol.
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/ 26 December 2010
Angola may not stand out as a top tourist destination but anglers fishing for the giant tarpon look set to put the country back on the visitors map.
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/ 13 December 2010
After a history of strained relationships, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos will on Tuesday start his first state visit to South Africa.
Cosatu, a key player in the struggle that brought down apartheid, fetes its 25th birthday on Saturday.