The The Red on the Rainbow is a story many South Africans can relate to as it asks the hard questions of where the rainbow is
This extract from the book Ten Cities details the evolution of the club scene in Nairobi, with a focus on the mid-1990s
Jeremiah Lemohang Mosese grew up in a village, taught himself to use a camera and has gone on to win prestigious awards at international festivals
Like flotsam you float from one unknown place to another, to seek and establish equilibrium — only to have it all disrupted by a pandemic
The Berlin Wall fell 30 years ago but today we have more borders and walls than ever
In shaping Africa’s universities we should take the best from two examples: Dar and Makerere
We face a current crisis unlike any other in
history — this one affects everyone everywhere
The athletics world will fail to turn unless the IAAF placates a new opponent
German authorities, after temporarily detaining another suspect, said they believed Amri drove the truck that ploughed into a Berlin Christmas market
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Gabi Ngcobo’s speciality is to contribute to global discussions about how best to curate art.
After signing deals with major labels, including holdout Sony Music this month, Soundcloud is adding a subscription plan for consumers.
After moderate success producing for South Africa’s A-list hip-hop acts, South African electro producer Muzi has set up shop in Berlin.
The abandoned Berlin Tempelhof airport, famous for its use during the Berlin airlift in 1948, was earmarked to house up to 1?200 refugees.
In a wonderful, terrible city that wears its scars on its sleeve, Lauren van Vuuren discovers the Berlin in all of us.
After the surprise release of the singer’s first single in more than a decade, Kate Connolly tours the city that inspired his trilogy of albums.
Berlin is a creative hub and even in the most Sandtonesque area, Friedrichstrasse, home of the Reichstag, there is not a suit in sight.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has added her voice to calls to bolster the European Investment Bank and to use EU infrastructure funds more flexibly.
The process has been hijacked by a
self-serving troika that has ignored the people.
Europe’s leaders are claiming victory in the eurozone crisis after agreeing to new deals that halve Greek debt.
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/ 13 September 2011
Unconventional photography and thought-provoking slogans of Germany’s Pirate Party stand well out from the pack of usual regional voting posters.
Germany has laid out its plans to abandon nuclear power in the next decade, while keeping its economy competitive and achieving its climate goals.
For the vuvuzela-tooting fans who turned Berlin into a seething mass of black, red and gold the the fairy tale was shattered by Carles Puyol’s header.
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/ 27 November 2009
Ali was barely five years old when the Berlin Wall came down. Twenty years later, he sells remnants of Germany’s communist past to tourists.
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/ 8 November 2009
A new study shows that about €1,3-trillion has been transferred from the west to rebuild the east, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
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/ 6 November 2009
If we could all trust and respect one another, we wouldn’t need them, writes Barbara Holtmann.
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/ 6 November 2009
The new South Africa owes a debt of gratitude to all those who sang the songs and manned the barricades 20 years ago, writes Mandla Langa.
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/ 6 November 2009
Torsten Schulz recalls the trip he
made from East Germany into the West.
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/ 6 November 2009
Twenty years after the Berlin Wall tumbled in a peaceful revolution, world leaders will on Monday meet in a transformed Germany.
A job centre in northern Germany has come up with a novel way to match unemployed people with potential employers: job speed dating.
South African teenager Caster Semenya won the women’s world 800m title with a crushing performance on Wednesday.
ASA has denied media reports that Caster Semenya was in danger of not competing in the women’s 800m final at the World Athletics Championships.
SA athletes competing in the World Athletics Championships are keen to make up for the disappointment of Beijing.