Shareholders in Zimbabwe’s largest mobile phone operator are set to become owners of a company with ambitions to be an internet giant of Africa.
The wide-ranging state corruption scandal that has dogged South Africa for that last two years could keep the country in the dark this holiday season.
The catastrophic drought that grips Cape Town is leading some residents who are at risk of seeing their taps turned off to protest the use of water by companies that consume millions of liters each day.
Durban, South Africa
The water crisis hitting Cape Town is increasing the danger of diseases that surge when people do not wash their hands.
The drought threatening a disastrous shortage of water in Cape Town has spurred at least one group of designers to imagine a future in which the salty waters of the ocean that borders the city might serve as source for cultivating food.
South Africa’s wine industry is praying for rain.
Can Afropunk make it in Africa?
One of the most unique features of a new South African biopic about an anti-apartheid hero earning accolades worldwide is the nationality of the people behind and in front of the camera: for a change, they’re South African.
An influential member of South Africa’s main opposition party is facing a firestorm after lauding what she described as the virtues of colonialism.
Donald Trump is set to become America’s developer-in-chief, if only he can beat the bureaucracy.
The 10 cents a page that most people are charged to view documents in Pacer, an online database of papers filed by litigants in the US federal courts, doesn’t sound like much. But critics of the setup say this cost is just the beginning.
The world’s major powers have yet to determine a recipe for defeating the Islamic State. Experts have suggested steps that include forcing out Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, reforming Islamic teaching, and more fully integrating Muslim communities in the West.
On May 20 in a courtroom in South Africa’s North West province, a judge sentenced Pule Stoffel Botlhokwane to two life terms for killing Gift Makau last August. Makau, a 23-year-old lesbian, had been raped and strangled, with a hose shoved into her mouth.
Helicopters that ply Mount Everest continued early Tuesday local time to airlift people stranded on the slopes by avalanches triggered by last weekend’s earthquake in Nepal.
In the aftermath of the quake that has left at least 2,430 people dead and more than 6,200 injured, nations, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, and relief agencies are gearing up to deliver personnel, supplies, food, medicine and financial assistance.
If you’re hoping to kill it at work this week, you may want to take a cue from Mark Teixeira and Jeb Bush.
A group of people estimated in the hundreds remains stranded on the slopes of Mount Everest following the earthquake that struck Nepal on Saturday. Their way back down from higher camps to base camp has been blocked by damage to the route. The mountaineers are huddled together and dug in amid aftershocks posing further risk, and have limited supplies, according to firsthand reports.
A day after an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale struck Nepal, at least 2,200 people have died and more than 5,500 have been injured.
This post has been updated with additional organizations and new information about the disaster.
The trend toward loose-fitting clothing is prompting a maker of form-fitting apparel to rethink its approach.
The registers went down but the coffee continued to flow.
Washington loves a power ranking, and what better occasion than the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the gathering of celebrities, journalists and public officials that is set to for Saturday night in the nation’s capital.
South Africa is retooling efforts to fix one of the main legacies of apartheid: the fact that in 1994 the white minority of less than 10% owned more than 90% of the country’s land. But the moves may tie less to tillage than to the travails of the ruling party.
