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The IDC should establish an independent forum to address employee relations issues. Photo: -File
AGRO AND SERVICES INDUSTRIES

IDC deal must be scrutinised

Ramaphosa must now turn to the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), which faces allegations of corporate governance failures similar to the PIC case. The latest concerns are…

  • Editorial
2 min read
Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease. (Supplied)
AARON MOTSOALEDI

How a boy born on World TB Day helped turn the tide on SA’s deadliest TB

Norbert Ndjeka was born on World TB Day. Decades later, he would reshape how South Africa treats the deadliest forms of the disease

  • Sean Christie
16 min read
Nyiragongo volcano, near the city of Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, suddenly became active on Saturday evening. (Photo by Alex Miles/AFP)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Volcano evacuation order sparks mass exodus in DRC

Tens of thousands of residents fled Goma last weekend after Nyiragongo erupted on Saturday night — many across the nearby border to Rwanda — before returning.

  • Agence France Presse
3 min read
Health experts fear outbreaks in major cities, where population density and high mobility make it far harder to isolate patients and trace contacts compared to the countryside. (Florian Plaucheur/Getty/AFP)
AGENCY

DRC Ebola epidemic widens on eve of first anniversary

A total of 1803 lives have been lost in the second worst outbreak of Ebola on record, according to figures released Wednesday.

  • Agency
4 min read
West Africa experienced the worst Ebola outbreak between 2013 and 2016. (AFP)
CONGO

DRC’s Ebola outbreak has all the makings of a humanitarian crisis

The current Ebola outbreak in the DRC is devastating vulnerable communities already affected by displacement and violence

  • Jacqueline Weyer
4 min read
Tanzania used to be a safe haven for Burundian refugees. But now some are being tortured and forcibly returned to Burundi. (Crispin Kyala/Reuters)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Kivu: The forgotten war

Fighting in Kivu, a region in the east of the vast powder-keg state of the Democratic Republic of Congo, first flared a generation ago

  • Marthe Bosuandole
4 min read
The general public is most often unaware of certain manipulations that enable some schools to claim their 100% pass rate records and the prestige that comes along with it. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO

Contested waters: Conflict on Africa’s Great Lakes

East Africa is home to some of the largest and deepest lakes in the world. But many of them also mark the borders between countries

  • Deutsche Welle 1
6 min read
Breathtaking splendour
KIGALI

Breathtaking splendour

Homa Khaleeli writes that 15 years after a bloody genocide, Rwanda is well worth schlepping to.

  • Horma Khaleeli
11 min read
ELECTRICITY

‘Killer’ lake generates power for Rwanda

Rwanda is to develop an integrated gas-extraction and electricity-generation facility at Lake Kivu to neutralise the ”killer lake” and generate power.

  • Staff Reporter
1 min read