When South African photographer Jodi Bieber found out she won the 2010 World Press Photo of the Year, she shrieked.
The recent uprisings in North Africa highlight how youth unemployment fuelled unrest, World Bank officials said on Thursday.
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/ 20 February 2011
Madagascar’s ousted president told reporters at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport on Saturday that he would keep trying to return to his homeland.
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/ 8 December 2010
Police have confirmed they arrested 358 illegal miners at the Aurora mine on Tuesday.
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/ 25 November 2010
Evidence that South Africa’s economic growth is slowing is raising fears the government has done too little and acted too late to boost growth.
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/ 23 November 2010
The pope’s suggestion that condoms could be used in limited situations has grabbed the attention of Africa which has a soaring number of Catholics.
In a rehearsal studio one afternoon in 1986, a white South African musician wrote an international hit — partly in isiZulu.
For hundreds of years, indigenous South Africans have chewed a plant which they say reduces stress, relieves hunger, sedates and elevates moods.