Latest articles on Seychelles

Rush for Africa’s marine species to feed demand in Asia

Environment Sheree Bega - 20 Feb 2021

The booming, lucrative and often illicit trade in sea cucumbers, seahorses and fish maws threatens species and coastal communities

Egypt, Seychelles get first jabs

Africa Laura López González - 24 Jan 2021

The two countries have rolled out China’s Sinopharm vaccine, but data issues are likely to keep some countries from doing the same

Elections test Africa’s democracy

Africa David Kode - 3 Mar 2020

Nine countries will go to the polls this year, but most will be held amid violence and suppression

Students ‘abandoned’ in Wuhan

Africa Simon Allison - 21 Feb 2020

Africans living in China want to be evacuated

Mo Ibrahim: Africa’s decade of ‘lost opportunity’

Africa Simon Allison - 30 Oct 2018

The 2018 African governance index was released this week. It’s not good news

Baxter warns Bafana against complacency ahead of rematch

Article Staff Reporter - 15 Oct 2018

In the sports wrap: South Africa’s global boxing star Zolani Tete has joined accomplished veteran trainer Floyd Mayweather Senior stable

Bafana confront their hoodoo

Article Luke Feltham - 11 Oct 2018

All too often the team panic when they play a lesser nation but the coach is working on that

The unethical sellers of dreams

Article Phillip De Wet - 13 Jan 2017

Clients hope to strike it rich but they will never make any money, an employee of a binary option company told Israel’s parliament

South Africans carve an Eden in the Seychelles

Article Phillip De Wet - 6 Nov 2014

Expatriate developers have set about creating a man-made island idyll for the ultrarich with a distinctly South Africa flavour.

Zuma’s builder pleads guilty, proclaims innocence

Article Phillip De Wet - 28 Dec 2013

Nkandla builder Thandeka Nene says a R7-billion fraud accusation against her in the Seychelles is a "political manoeuvre" - despite a guilty verdict.

Zuma’s dodgy Nkandla builder pays fine following Seychelles arrest

Article Staff Reporter - 28 Dec 2013

President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla homestead builder Thandeka Nene, who was arrested for fraud in the Seychelles, is back home as a free woman.

There should be ‘no controversy’ around Motlanthe holiday, says Masebe

Article Sapa - 10 Feb 2013

Thabo Masebe has said he doesn't know "why there should be any controversy" around Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe's holiday to the Seychelles.

Seychelles pleads for end to pirate prisoner overcrowding

Africa Ella Ide - 5 Mar 2012

The Seychelles has called for international help as naval forces tighten the noose around Somali pirates, saying they cannot hold more prisoners.

Passengers disembark from stricken Costa Allegra

Africa Staff Reporter - 1 Mar 2012

Relieved passengers have disembarked from a disabled cruise ship docked in the island nation of the Seychelles after three days at sea without power.

Krejcir accesses deportation report

Article Sam Sole Author, Sally Evans & Sam Sole - 15 Apr 2011

Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir is gathering material for his pending application to be granted asylum as a "political refugee".

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Latest articles on Seychelles

Rush for Africa’s marine species to feed demand in Asia

Egypt, Seychelles get first jabs

Elections test Africa’s democracy

Students ‘abandoned’ in Wuhan

Mo Ibrahim: Africa’s decade of ‘lost opportunity’

Baxter warns Bafana against complacency ahead of rematch

Bafana confront their hoodoo

The unethical sellers of dreams

South Africans carve an Eden in the Seychelles

Zuma’s builder pleads guilty, proclaims innocence

Zuma’s dodgy Nkandla builder pays fine following Seychelles arrest

There should be ‘no controversy’ around Motlanthe holiday, says Masebe

Seychelles pleads for end to pirate prisoner overcrowding

Passengers disembark from stricken Costa Allegra

Krejcir accesses deportation report

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