Kirsty Coventry has been elected as the 10th President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), becoming the first woman and African to ever be elected to the position. Coventry, 41 ...

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One of South Africa’s most celebrated playwrights, Athol Fugard, has passed away at the age of 92 after a long illness. Fugard, also a renowned novelist, actor and director, was a revolutionary ...

It may look beautiful but what it reveals is an alarming picture of a heating planet. The graphic shows the increase in daily global temperatures between 1940 and the end of 2024 compared to the ...

In the late 1950s Pan-African activist Andrée Blouin contributed to Sékou Touré’s campaign for independence in Guinea, then helped Patrice Lumumba’s electoral campaign in the Belgian Congo, before ...

Afrobeats icon Tiwa Savage was among the personalities recognised by Forbes at the 2025 Forbes Women Africa Leading Women Summit. The recognition is another feather in the colourful cap of the ...

Judge Stops Immediate Shutdown of Small US Agency for African Development A judge barred the Trump administration on Thursday from immediately moving to shut down a small federal agency that ...

Rassie Erasmus has claimed that the Six Nations do not want South Africa to join the northern hemisphere’s competition. The inclusion of the Springboks has been frequently discussed in recent ...

A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South Africa who had to wait years for their husbands’ return from exile ...

“The captaincy is a big thing in South Africa, when I started out it wasn’t a big thing for me, because I believe we all take ownership and support the captain,” Erasmus told reporters in Cape Town on ...