As SA’s most decorated playwright, takes to the stage for the last time, he explains why he will never lose his optimism for the country’s future.
A superb book unravels the story of how a Senegalese court jailed a former Chad president for life
President Jacob Zuma’s "undiplomatic" reaction to the death of Cecil the Lion at US hunter Walter Palmer’s hand fails to amuse in Zimbabwe.
Greenpeace’s Kumi Naidoo has expressed “sadness, hurt and deep disappointment” that government may have been spying on him.
A group of civil society volunteers has spent months collecting and verifying names of the victims to give the tragedy a human face.
Domestic worker Siphokazi Mdlankomo has stolen the show on Masterchef SA, but her sisters are still all but forgotten.
Aids is not over, says Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, but donors are pulling out of South Africa because it is a middle-income country.
Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe appears to have achieved his goal of extracting more cash from China.
The Christian woman whose apostasy death sentence was overturned is doing well after the US embassy in Khartoum gave the family refuge.
Desert Wolf, maker of the Skunk Riot Control Copter, says its machine is "designed to control unruly crowds". But labour activists are condemning it.
Government staff in Rwanda appear to be using fake accounts to harass journalists on Twitter.
Officials and eyewitnesses recount the militant Muslim fundamentalist group’s audacious attack on a military base, which left many killed and injured.
Former SA president Thabo Mbeki says his country was asked by the UK for help with a military plan to remove Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.
Young people in Somalia have known only war and little prospect of getting a job.
A group of 78 dispossessed white farmers claim victory and intend to pursue full compensation.
Rights activists have hailed anti-poverty and Aids activist David Kuria as a pioneer despite an aborted election campaign.
The AU and West African regional bloc has condemned army interference in Mali’s politics after the prime minister was forced to resign.
Uganda helped the M23 militia with "logistics" as it fought a deadly and successful offensive against the Congolese army.
The change wrought by the mass distribution of HIV/Aids drugs is akin to a major societal shift, writes David Smith.
There have been countless attempts to define the world’s second-biggest and second-most-populous continent, often and notoriously from outside.
