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The constitution puts him on fairly firm ground but citizens of post-dictatorship Gambia are determined to hold their leader to account
It is not unusual for Equatorial Guinea to seal its border with Cameroon. But a plan to build a solid border wall has Cameroonians fuming
The protest wave sweeping across Sudan was never about bread; it’s a nation fed up with a decades-old military dictatorship
Kenya owes more to China than it does to Western lenders, the traditional source of loans to the continent
The controversy surrounding South Africa’s biggest arms-acquisition deal has resurfaced. That prosecutors in Düsseldorf at the weekend confirmed a probe into allegations that a…
Phil Naledi has changed the lives of residents along a leafy street in the north-eastern Johannesburg suburb of Sydenham. He earns R900 a month for guarding the houses in the…
Hollywood seems to have embraced the South African reality of crime, grime and poverty after Tsotsi won the best foreign-language film Oscar on Sunday. The story of a violent…
As the final preparations for the first of three A1 grand prix races were under way in South Africa on Tuesday, managers of host city Durban announced they have their sights set…
Heavy rains in parts of Southern Africa have left more than 1Â 000 people homeless, caused structural damage, and played a part in spreading cholera . In Zambia more than 1Â 000…
The twin infants wrestle for their mother’s breasts as the young woman stops to catch her breath. Weak and exhausted she is standing in the shade of a large tree at the United…
Tens of thousands of unmarried Swazi girls performed a final dance on Monday culminating a week-long celebration of chastity as Swazi authorities moved to defend the…
Tens of thousands of unmarried Swazi girls gathered at the royal residence on Sunday to lay down reeds as part of a week-long celebration of national pride that will culminate in…
In an African context, Zambia’s level of corruption is hardly the worst, but it is a problem and politicians, church leaders and ordinary Zambians are starting to speak out…
At first it appears as though the seriously ill Zimbabwean is speaking about someone else’s ordeal at the hands of the notorious Central Intelligence Organisation. Propped up in…
Situated in a large, old, red two-storey Victorian mansion in the Cape Town suburb of Claremont, the world’s only college of magic may lack the flying broomsticks of Harry…
American animal behaviourist Kirk Turner and South Africa’s Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are establishing a dog training centre in the dusty district of Brits…
Barefoot and dirty, Nkosinathi Gumede took his place in the front row at a concert by conductor and pianist Justus Frantz. The 11-year-old from the impoverished and crime-ridden…
South African police spent hours looking for a 43-year-old man reported kidnapped this week, but at the end of a costly seven-hour search across the Johannesburg region, it…
South Africans on Tuesday noted Charlize Theron’s latest success as she was nominated for an Academy Award for her leading role as a serial killer in Monster — but some couldn’t…
Lego became ”Legover” with the little plastic people depicted in a lewd manner. Nestle’s pet food brand Husky became ”Horny” with more of the same, involving dogs. Coca-Cola’s…
