He wasn’t just one of the most talented actors in America. He was also in the middle of a political awakening, speaking out on issues ranging from police reform to reducing poverty
The Tshiamiso Trust has begun paying out workers who contracted silicosis and TB in South Africa’s gold mines, but the amounts are paltry against what they have lost to poor health over the years.
Only Gambia has a plan that, if everyone acted the same way, would see global heating kept to below 1.5°C.
The financial and public health cost of diabetes, as well as diabetes-related blindness and kidney failures, is being overlooked, health advocates say
Why are coups happening more frequently? The most significant trend is the deepening democratic deficit across many African countries, and a corresponding decline in effective enforcement of democratic norms
Young people make use of online portal and women account for more than half of the total registered
Access to land ownership and property rights is inextricably linked to self-determination.
The Taliban must respect women’s rights if it is serious about fostering economic development
The president himself should halt the national malady of covering up corruption, whose origins can be traced to a key moment for the ANC in 1996
In its current form, the Bill fails to address issues that early childhood development practitioners have long been grappling with
Alpha Condé is not the first president to have his humiliation captured on camera.
There are few, if any, studies to support Pfizer chief executive’s assertion that the global south would be more vaccine-hesitant than the north
Labelling the protestors as looters denies the political consciousness of those living in precarity, it unconscionably encodes a criminal stereotype over the poor and erases any justice claims that motivate their actions
While the summit leaders solemnly swear that they are singing off the same struggle song sheet towards progressive development, the bloc’s leaders’ solidarity is mostly skin-deep
Since the coup d’état, Guinea’s head of state has been in the custody of the military officers. But it was the president who was the primary architect of his own downfall
The quantity of rubbish in the sea is driving a growing alarm among countries whose economies rely on tourism
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Most of the 1 600 participants in the study believe the government is doing an inefficient job in combating corruption, according to Afrobarometer
A lack of meaningful transformation will undermine the country’s progress and democratic order
Moving the national senior certificate exams forward also allows matrics who are old enough to cast their ballots on 1 November
Celebrating collaborative initiatives for the management of climate change.
A new book, Marriages of Inconvenience: The Politics of Coalitions in South Africa, takes a forward-looking view of the country politics but also a historical one
Benguela exists in the country’s collective psyche in a way no other city does. It’s a place that’s inspired poets, musicians, writers and artists
The SIU is trying to recover R2.5-million from a housing tender as part of its investigation into corruption during the Covid-19 state of disaster
The organisation argues that the Copyright Act is unconstitutional because it violates the human rights of blind people. The case will be heard on 21 September
The past cannot be erased, but leaders can choose how to respond to it and how to forge a better future
Responding to widespread claims that France is funding Rwandan forces, the president says ‘no one is sponsoring’ his army
To understand more about what’s going on in South America’s most populous country, and what might happen next, The Continent spoke to João Bosco Monte, the head of the Brazil Africa Institute
Military juntas seldom protect human rights, but they justify their coups for this reason
What happened on the continent this past week
The museum stretches along the coast from Lamu to Malinda and showcases shipwrecks and their stories in a unique ecosystem
Proposed bribe to Zanu-PF was co-ordinated by South African private security company FSS