ONE of the most colourful men in African politics happens to be white. Guy Scott is the vice president of Zambia, but his race is probably the least exceptional thing about him.
JOHANNESBURG: Two of Nelson Mandela’s daughters have launched a legal bid to oust his close friend and lawyer from the boards of two companies, hinting at ugly power struggles to come over the former president’s wealth.
JOHANNESBURG: He is Africa’s most famous man, the subject of countless biographies and TV documentaries, his every move now scrutinised more closely than ever.
It is the moment that any host dreads. In the beach resort of Durban this week, South Africa will be straining to keep up appearances for bigger, wealthier patrons—China, Brazil, Russia and India—in the feverish hope that it’s worthy of a stop on their so
PRETORIA (South Africa): The release of double amputee athlete Oscar Pistorius has been condemned for sending the wrong message in South Africa, a country where violence against women is seen as a national
KANO: The killing in Nigeria of nine women who were vaccinating children against polio have drawn comparisons with a series of incidents in Pakistan last December where five female polio vaccinators were
CAN the camera be racist? The question is explored in an exhibition that reflects on how Polaroid built an efficient tool for South Africa’s apartheid regime to photograph and police black people.
SOUTH Africa has witnessed an “unparalleled” five-year increase in life expectancy since 2005 thanks to the world’s biggest programme of HIV/Aids drug treatment, researchers say.
RWANDA’S president, Paul Kagame, remained defiant in the face of growing international condemnation of his country’s military meddling in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
BY any measure it is a stunning reversal. Three years ago Somalia’s central ‘government’ controlled little more than a square mile of the capital, Mogadishu, while Islamist militants began to impose strict Sharia law
