Integrated student housing at Stellenbosch University is key to smoothing over the campus’s charged racial divides.
Jenni Williams has been jailed more often than she can remember. Yet she refuses to give up the fight for justice.
The arrest and subsequent release of American human-rights lawyer Peter Erlinder in Rwanda on charges of "genocide denialism".
Questions are being asked whether the G8 invitation to African states to its summit reflects its concern about the litany of unmet promises.
Despite sporadic talk of Eugene Terre’Blanche’s murder triggering a civil war, analysts say the AWB is too weak to pose a significant national threat.
In an extract from their new book, Peter and Beverly Pickford share their vision of Ngorongoro, a world heritage site and the Maasai’s sacred place.
South African fruit and wine farmers have launched an initiative to determine the environmental impact of their industries.
Margret Woermann is the owner of and creative force behind the Heartworks craft shops.
A Cape Town beading initiative is improving the lives of poor women in the townships around the city.
Worried that it may be seen as insensitive to the food needs of Africa, the South African government, which is facing a general election in 2009, has chosen food security in…
While the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has moved towards liberalising trade to make the flow of goods between countries easier and economically more rewarding,…
Kenya is set to receive oil from Libya at preferential rates according to a bilateral agreement signed earlier this month between the leaders of the two countries. Insiders in…
Biofuel and renewable energy sources may hold the key to Africa’s energy crisis. Without intervention, this crisis is set to grow — among others, in Southern African cities such…
The issue of lesbian and gay Africans’ human rights again came to the fore recently as Anglican Church leaders met in Tanzania amid the continuing row over the consecration of a…
The world came to Nairobi, capital of Kenya, this week to talk — and shout — about how to achieve a better world. Delegates attended the World Social Forum (WSF) in their…
