South Africa
Former South African President dies at 85
Reading Time: < 1 minute Former South Africa President FW de Klerk, who was the head of state between September 1989 and May 1994 is […]
Footballer loses lavish house, cars after he registered property in wife’s name
Reading Time: < 1 minute Former Warriors striker Tendai Ndoro has lost ‘everything’ after he was kicked out of his home and taken to the […]
Unlucky Shujaa falls to South Africa in Vancouver Sevens finals
Reading Time: 2 minutes South Africa put up an impressive performance to win the Vancouver 7s following a 38-5 victory against Kenya 7s in […]
Zuma released from prison on medical parole
Reading Time: < 1 minute South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has welcomed the decision to release former president Jacob Zuma on medical parole. President Ramaphosa […]
Jacob Zuma: Military deployed to tackle unrest over jailed ex-president
Reading Time: 2 minutes South Africa is deploying the military to tackle riots that have broken out over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
COVID-19: Cases in South Africa pass one million mark
Reading Time: < 1 minute South Africa has become the first country on the continent to register more than one million Covid-19 cases. It comes […]
Delegated power delivers, it doesn’t just promise
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dennis Brutus, one of my favourite poets and anti-apartheid icon has this iconic poem titled “There was once a girl.” […]
Huawei launches cloud, AI innovation centre in South Africa to serve the continent
Reading Time: 2 minutes Huawei announced the launch of a cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) centre in South Africa in a bid to drive […]
11,000 unexplained deaths in South Africa: researchers
Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers say the figures for natural deaths are far higher than usual, suggesting thousands of Covid-19 deaths unreported.
South Africa announces record single-day 572 Covid-19 deaths
Reading Time: < 1 minute Almost half South Africa's total number of coronavirus deaths have been reported in the Western Cape province.