South Africa

Multimedia | 2014-05-29 14:59:00

This week, SA tops the obesity scales, new ministers are questioned on their abilities, and, at last, a happy story.

NationalAzad Essa | 2014-05-05 14:04:00

In the early hours of December 5 2013, I flipped through the television channels in my apartment in Doha. News had just broken of Nelson Mandela's...

EditorialsEditorial | 2014-04-11 00:00:00

South Africa woke up on Monday morning not having felt the seismic shift that had transformed the continent, at least economically, over the...

Nigeria leapfrogged South Africa to become Africa's largest economy, following the announcement of its rebased gross domestic product (GDP)...

Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest oil producer, is set to emerge as the continent's biggest economy on Sunday when the...

One only needs to look at where South Africa sources its water from to realise that there are significant challenges in supplying the citizens of...

AfricaFarai Shoko | 2014-02-07 00:00:00

The government's decision to ban the private import of grain, in effect allowing the state's struggling Grain Marketing Board (GMB) a...

The South African advertising industry has often been criticised as being slow to transform.

Rodney Nelson, KPMG’s global mining leader for projects, says globally, mining is profiting from the increasing urbanisation of Asia.

Elections in Africa are often high-risk affairs and in 2014 the majority are taking place in Southern Africa.