More than 30 foreign-owned shops were looted last night in two neighbourhoods in South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, a police spokesman was quoted by the local TimesLive news site as saying. Bongi...
More than 30 foreign-owned shops were looted last night in two neighbourhoods in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, a police spokesman was quoted by the local TimesLive news site as saying. Bongi...
More than 100 people were reportedly injured on Monday evening in a train accident in the South African city of Pretoria. The News24 portal reported that the train accident at the Rossyln station...
The African Union should intervene urgently to end xenophobic attacks in South Africa on Nigerians and other Africans, a presidential adviser in Nigeria, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has said. Her statement...
South Africa sports minister Fikile Mbalula Monday denied a Confederation of African Football statement that President Jacob Zuma was backing incumbent Issa Hayatou in the CAF leadership race. A CAF...
Nigeria on Monday urged the African Union to step in to stop what it said were "xenophobic attacks" on its citizens and other Africans in South Africa. The presidency said there was a need for the...
Peeling back the maize plant's leaves reveals a small brown caterpillar -- an armyworm that writhes as it burrows into the heart of the crop, producing a sticky dark paste. Eighty percent of the...
The silent deaths of 94 mentally ill patients in South Africa is symptomatic of their place in society, but their families want explanations, writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg. Virginia...
Team-mates from South Africa's 1995 World Cup winning squad carried the coffin of Joost van der Westhuizen into his memorial service on Friday in front of several hundred mourners. Van der...
Play was halted for an hour Saturday in a South African league match after Orlando Pirates supporters invaded the pitch when the team fell 6-0 behind against Mamelodi Sundowns. As frustrated fans...
the poison is meant to show that death has no power over them. A South African pastor has been offering rat poison to his congregation as a test of their faith, the country’s eNCA website reports....
A South African pastor has been offering rat poison to his congregation as a test of their faith, the country’s eNCA website reports. Light Monyeki, who heads the Grace Living Hope Ministries in...
Africa has a long history of harbouring Europeans, Asians and even South Americans. Prior to, and after the era of colonialism in Africa, White Africans commonly called European Africans have been...
Ghanaian Felix Dapare Dakora is a Plant and Soil Biotechnology Professor at the Tshwane University of Technology in Pretoria, South Africa. Professor Dakora won the award for his work on the...
Time does fly. 35 years already… Early in 1982, I was called up to serve. The Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) had been delivered on the last day of the previous year and was now being...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs designate, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, has said that Ghana’s foreign missions will pursue an economic diplomacy policy to attract foreign direct investments and...
Since the political crisis in The Gambia stated last December with President Yahya Jammeh rejecting the result of the presidential election citing “irregularities”, there have been many...
Last October Burundi, South Africa and the Gambia declared they were withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), citing reasons that generally have to do with the widely held perception...
Over the last several years along the Indian Ocean coast in East Africa substantial finds of oil and natural gas resources have been under development. A British exploration corporation, Tullow Oil...
Sometime after January 7 2017, my two and a half years tour of duty as Ghana’s High Commissioner to Namibia and Botswana would come to an end and I will head back to my homeland Ghana to pursue the...
