African film schools: Growing our talent on native soil Lacking governmental support, film-makers themselves are setting up the training structures the next generation needs it's time. ...
Discord at the AU While reunited in Addis Ababa the Heads of State and government of the continent spewed their differences on the table. Differences among member ... states highlight a deepening fissure ahead of another voting round in Lilongwe, in June this year.
South Africa’s blade runner wins prestigious sports award Blade runner, Oscar Pistorius has received the 2012 Laureus World Sports statuette at an awards ceremony in London. ...
De Beers/Anglo American: Pushed or jumped, the Oppenheimers are out The family's sale of its stake in De Beers to Anglo American may have more to do with debts than lost confidence in South Africa. ...
Ethiopia arrests suspected al-Qaeda militants Ethiopian police on Monday said they had arrested eight suspected al-Qaeda members who were planning terrorist attacks. ...
South Africa: Julius Malema won’t budge Julius Malema who dominated South Africa news headlines in the past year has been banished into the political wilderness after the ruling Africa ... National Congress (ANC) upheld his expulsion at the weekend.
South Africa: Electricity crisis looms South Africa's power utility, Eskom has called on South Africans and business entities to make at least a 10 percent saving on electricity, as ... the country faced possible power cuts.
South Africa: A lesson for lesbian murderers Zoliswa Nkonyana, a black lesbian, residing in Khayelitsha Township on the outskirts of Cape Town, was open about her sexuality and her family ... accepted her.?? Although she was open about her sexuality, a constitutional right in South Africa, it was seen as something very unusual in the townships.
The Faith Diaries: When silence brings you HIV Being HIV positive for almost ten years now, I have had my fair share of serious and not so serious infections which have at times seen my immune ... system succumb and often come close to collapse. I would believe that I had full-blown Aids only to revert back to being HIV positive after some interventions.
Asiagate dooms Zimbabwe football The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has indefinitely suspended almost 70 footballers implicated in a string of match fixing scandals, now ... referred to Asiagate.