“Africa can feed itself. And it can make the transition from hungry importer to self-sufficiency in a single generation.”
The matric class of 2010 have shrugged off setbacks from a month-long World Cup break and a teacher strike to record a rise in the national pass rate.
After much anticipation the 2010 matric results have finally been released. The <i>M&G</i> spoke to some of the candidates about their results, the World Cup and strike distractions, as well as their plans for the year ahead.
President Jacob Zuma makes the ANC’s annual January 8 statement at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Saturday on the party’s 99th founding anniversary.
More than 275 000 Zimbabweans applied to the Department of Home Affairs to legalise their stay in South Africa.
Zimbabwe has quadrupled fees for local journalists working for international media organisations new regulations published on Thursday reported.
The demand for electricity is set to increase by about 2% in 2011 as the country’s economy recovers, Eskom CEO Brian Dames said on Thursday.
Mpumalanga minister Madala Masuku condemned the killing of the Ehlanzeni district municipality chief whip, Madala Masuku on Thursday.
While the overall pass rate for matriculants had increased, the number of students who sat the mathematics paper and then passed, dropped in 2010.
Côte d’Ivoire’s recognised election winner, Alassane Ouattara, says rival Laurent Gbagbo recruited Liberian mercenaries.
The Emfuleni municipality in Gauteng and the Mpumalanga province issued flood warnings on Thursday after main rivers began overflowing.
The 2010 matric results showed the country was on the right track, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.
India bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth has been fined 10% of his match fee for kicking the boundary rope in frustration during the third Test.
South Korean police have found evidence that Internet giant Google illegally collected private data while producing its Street View mapping service.
A Malaysian man abandoned his wife after a temple medium convinced him that she was a demon who wanted to kill him.
A prominent cricket official was shot dead outside Sahara Park Newlands on Wednesday, the Western Province Cricket Association said.
South Sudan’s army signed a ceasefire with rebel forces it has been fighting since last April, just four days ahead of an historic referendum.
A Tunisian man who claimed to be an al-Qaeda member exploded a gas cylinder in front of the French embassy in Mali on Wednesday.
A Rwandan prosecutor has asked for a 33-year prison sentence for the editor of a local independent newspaper accused of denying the 1994 genocide.
Once again, China has scored points in Africa. Beijing wants South Africa to become the fifth member of the Bric countries.
Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has described the matric pass rate of 67,8% as a "significant achievement".
The United Nations wants between 1 000 and 2 000 additional peacekeepers for Côte d’Ivoire.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, have vowed their countries will cooperate closely despite differences.
More than 67% of matrics passed last year’s exams — up from 60,7% in 2009, the basic education ministry announced in Pretoria on Thursday.
Floods in KwaZulu-Natal had claimed five lives by Wednesday as heavy rains continued to soak large parts of the country.
Mozambican painter Malangatana, one of Africa’s greatest contemporary artists, died Wednesday aged 74 in Portugal.
The ANC chief whip in the Ehlanzeni district municipality in Mpumalanga was killed in the Mhala district in the early hours of Wednesday.
More than 1 300 road deaths have been recorded since December 2010, the Road Traffic Management Corporation said on Wednesday.
Former president Thabo Mbeki paid a glowing tribute to Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir ahead of the country’s secession referendum.
South Africa will push for reform of the United Nations Security Council during a two-year stint as a rotating member of the group.
A United States company has come up with a baton-shaped device that charges gadgets using power generated by walking, hiking or running.
At least 440 cases of malaria have been reported in Limpopo, provincial health department spokesperson Cecil Motsepe said on Wednesday.