Eritrea is one of the most repressive states in the world and the refugee camps offer little freedom or safety, but enslavement and abuse instead.
Taking Twitter by storm, this Wits student weathers insults left, right and centre and comes through even more convincing, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
A teacher’s organisation and two NGOs say that hundreds of thousands of children in KwaZulu-Natal walk long distances to and from school.
Communications Minister Faith Muthambi tried valiantly to educate the communications committee on the state of the public broadcaster.
Pick n Pay and Jaguar Land Rover SA have decided not to renew their sponsorship of the Afrikaans is Groot concerts, Beeld newspaper reported.
Bangladesh will have to play fearless cricket to reproduce their shock 2007 World Cup win over India to knock them out in the quarter-final.
Many notable Africans were imprisoned at Robben Island – Namibians and Malagasy too, writes Christine Mungai.
The DA’s argument to overturn a parliamentary rule allowing Mbete to call police to remove MP’s was "extremist", says senior counsel for Parliament.
The SABC reported that a German company that allegedly bribed middlemen to get contracts to supply the SA government with warships denied the claims.
A Franschhoek winery is serving up a different flavour for subscribers’ favourite type of pork – and the Bacon Pop-Up Bar for everyone else.