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The fated SS Mendi has been remembered, ignored and revived for political gain.
Integrated student housing at Stellenbosch University is key to smoothing over the campus’s charged racial divides.
Jenni Williams has been jailed more often than she can remember. Yet she refuses to give up the fight for justice.
The arrest and subsequent release of American human-rights lawyer Peter Erlinder in Rwanda on charges of "genocide denialism".
Questions are being asked whether the G8 invitation to African states to its summit reflects its concern about the litany of unmet promises.
Despite sporadic talk of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s murder triggering a civil war, analysts say the AWB is too weak to pose a significant national threat.
The resignations of President Thabo Mbeki and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel have shocked many, but some have welcomed the news.
South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries.
Margret Woermann is the owner of and creative force behind the Heartworks craft shops.
A Cape Town beading initiative is improving the lives of poor women in the townships around the city.
A planned lodge development at the settlement of Molapo in Botswana’s Central Kalahari Game Reserve has become a source of controversy. Tourists who frequent the 40-room lodge’s…
Violence in South African schools has claimed the lives of a number of children in recent years, while many more have been hospitalised with injuries. In one of the latest…
Since his recent election as head of the ruling party in December, Jacob Zuma has indicated that he is in favour of opening a debate on the issue of capital punishment. The death…
Worried that it may be seen as insensitive to the food needs of Africa, the South African government, which is facing a general election in 2009, has chosen food security in…
Félicien Kabuga has a reward of several million dollars on his head, and tops the list of fugitives of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Yet, he’s managed to…
Kenya is set to receive oil from Libya at preferential rates according to a bilateral agreement signed earlier this month between the leaders of the two countries. Insiders in…
This year marks the birth of a new ”species”: Homo urbanus. For the first time in history there will be as many city dwellers as rural inhabitants in the world. The executive…
Biofuel and renewable energy sources may hold the key to Africa’s energy crisis. Without intervention, this crisis is set to grow — among others, in Southern African cities such…
This week’s African Union summit failed to make substantive progress on resolving two of the continent’s most urgent crises — in Darfur and Somalia. In November, Sudanese…
The world came to Nairobi, capital of Kenya, this week to talk — and shout — about how to achieve a better world. Delegates attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in their…
