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One of history’s famous shipwrecks in history, Ernest Shackleton’s Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking, explorers…
Angola’s president has asked the country to give him five more years in power to further his drive to rebuild the country after its 27-year civil war.
With the president’s face on jumbo screens, T-shirts and helium blimps, thousands of Angolans rallied to show their support ahead of the polls.
Isaac and Joan Ngwenya have an exceptional story from the apartheid era, whereby every citizen was classified by race.
In a field 30km south of Angola’s chaotic capital, a city seems to rise from nothing, a showpiece in government’s drive to build a million homes.
A collection of Nelson Mandela’s papers reveals his years of heartache at missing his family while in prison and his wariness at becoming idolised.
South Africa’s week-long public-service strike has strained President Jacob Zuma’s ties with leftist allies who helped propel him to power.
Nelson Mandela and his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, mourned at the funeral of their great-granddaughter, Zenani Mandela, on Thursday.
A grief-stricken Nelson Mandela pulled out of the Soccer World Cup opening Friday after the death of his great-granddaughter.
In the final run-up to the World Cup, South Africans have snapped up tickets in a surge that will give the tournament a more African flavour.
A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and on to Durban’s South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.
South Africa is polishing up for the global spotlight during the Soccer World Cup draw in two weeks, eager to show it’s ready for the games.
Onias was 16 years old when he ran away from his home in rural Zimbabwe. Schools were shuttered and his village had run out of food.
Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean drinking water and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbourhoods.
When Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal with Morgan Tsvangirai a year ago, the pact was hailed as a breakthrough.
African leaders reached a compromise early on Friday on the powers of a new regional authority that will coordinate key policies.
Iran’s hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cancelled his visit to Libya on Wednesday, sparing an African Union summit a diplomatic dilemma.
Klaas Kekana was surprised to find that he and his friends were seated in different parts of the stadium when they went to see Italy play the US.
Teenage footballers who dream of becoming star South African professionals are taking up ballet to give them the edge on the field.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi’s drive to create a ”union government” for all of Africa has instead heightened divisions on the continent.
