Nelson Mandela's widow on Friday threatened legal action over a book by his personal doctor that laid bare intimate details of his final illness and death in 2013. Mandela's physician Vejay Ramlakan...
South African parliament and police are to provide security for an ANC MP after a number of death threats against her. Parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo said the decision followed a security...
South African parliament and police are to provide security for an ANC MP after a number of death threats against her. Parliamentary spokesman Moloto Mothapo said the decision followed a security...
“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others” – Nelson Rolihlala Mandela The history of the African liberation...
An ambulance carrying South Africa's first democratically elected president Nelson Mandela caught fire as it was rushing him to hospital, his doctor revealed in a book published on Monday. The...
Former top football official Chuck Blazer, whose evidence to US investigators helped trigger the FIFA corruption scandal, has died, his lawyers said Wednesday. Blazer, who himself had been banned for...
After nearly four decades of foot-stomping music that challenged South Africa's apartheid regime and promoted racial reconciliation, Johnny Clegg -- aka "the White Zulu" -- is heading out on his...
South Africa's ruling ANC party will look to "self-correct" at a six-day meeting starting Friday, a senior official said after a series of bruising scandals and fierce criticism of President Jacob...
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is blunt. When he wanted to make a political statement about crackdowns on dissent, he brought portraits of 176 political prisoners to one of America's most infamous...
When Kofi Anan first addressed the world as the 7th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Morgan Freeman fans had an unimaginable shock. Why give up Hollywood to make the world a better place?...
At the back of Mandisa Zwane's typical yellow plaster-clad Soweto house is a bustling hive of activity set to a soundtrack of gospel music and crying babies that emanates from nearby. Every day the...
As bubbly and determined as she is, Dora Badu Acheampong is almost always all smiles and that has gained her the admiration of many, hence the name Badu Smiley she uses on Instagram. A finalist of...
Having sealed the three-Test series with two convincing triumphs, South Africa want to beat France at Ellis Park for the first time Saturday. The Johannesburg stadium where the Springboks won the...
A total of 40 young Ghanaians have left the country to attend the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellowship of the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) in the United States. The 40 include the Head of...
Tributes were paid Tuesday to Joel Joffe, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela in the trial that saw the anti-apartheid icon jailed, following his death at the age of 85. Lord Joffe died on Sunday,...
Close bonds between the people of the African continent and the Caribbean island-nation of Cuba have been centuries in the making. Africans caught in the Atlantic Slave Trade were taken to Cuba where...
Former African champions Nigeria and Zambia both suffered home defeats on Saturday in their first group qualifiers for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. Nigeria, who failed to qualify for...
Credit ratings agency Moody's on Friday said it had downgraded South Africa a notch over gloomy growth prospects and the political instability unleashed by corruption scandals engulfing President...
The corruption scandals engulfing South African President Jacob Zuma have done huge damage to the ruling African National Congress, a top party leader said on Wednesday. ANC secretary general Gwede...
The Head of Public Relations for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), in the Western Region, Philip Osei Bonsu, is amongst forty (40) fellows who are heading to the United States of America (USA)...
