South Africa’s uncertain digital regulatory environment may deter investors and tech entrepreneurs, despite the country’s potential to become Africa’s digital hub, according to a survey launched in Johannesburg on Thursday (May 5).
Zimbabwe’s national parks put its wildlife up for sale on Tuesday in a bid to save the animals from a devastating drought, Reuters reported.
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo is set to comfortably win another election, adding another seven years to a 36-year-rule, according to reports on Wednesday.
One of MTN’s largest shareholders is irked by bonuses the company paid to fired executives.
The leader of South Africa’s fastest growing opposition movement threatened to take up arms if the government responds violently to potential protests during municipal elections in August.
In her new “visual album” Lemonade, Beyoncé plays with a wealth of influences, including a strong African aesthetic. In several scenes she wears a voluminous, antebellum-styled dress made of bright, multicolored geometric African prints. In others, she wears tribal paint and beads and a braided crown that could have been at home on the head of a Zulu matriarch.
For a brief moment, Cell C‘s Jose dos Santos was on the right side of history. Speaking on CliffCentral radio on Monday, the CEO of South Africa’s third-largest telecom company expressed his hopes that he would succeeded by a woman.
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The International Monetary Fund has suspended aid and cancelled a trip to Mozambique, after revelations that the country has been hiding debt of about $1 billion.
Africa’s largest stock exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa, is about to get some competition on its own turf.
The creators of Watly, a 15-ton multitasking thermal dynamic computer, believe their machine could help address three developmental challenges in Africa in one go: clean water, electricity and internet connectivity.
South Africa’s tourism industry is recovering from an ill-fated experiment with stricter visa regulations. The country welcomed nearly 3 million tourists in January this year, 15% up on a year ago, according to the tourism ministry this week. In the last quarter of 2015, the number of tourists from China fell by nearly half, and visitors from India dropped by 15%, according to the South African Tourism Services Association.
It could have been another inspiring immigrant story. Atul Gupta, a young man from Saharanpur in northern India, is sent by his father to find success across the ocean. He looks to South Africa and sees opportunity amid the political and economic turmoil of the country’s transition in the early 1990s. As his gamble pays off, his brothers join and he builds an empire in his adopted home.
In a country with one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, Chief Theresa Kachindamoto is dismantling child marriage—about 850 unions in three years, according to Al Jazeera and more than 300 in one month, according to UN Women.
There are now four times as many people in the world living with diabetes today than in 1980 and poor diet and a lack of exercise are largely blamed, according to a report by the World Health Organization. In Africa, the prevalence of diabetes has more than doubled in that time, which may be due to better personal incomes versus poor public spending.
South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma comfortably survived impeachment this week. The African National Congress’ majority in parliament means that with 143 votes for and 233 votes against the impeachment bid, it’s unlikely Zuma even broke a sweat during the rowdy televised parliamentary session.
Angola is experiencing its worst yellow fever outbreak in 30 years, says the World Health Organization. The mosquito-borne disease was first reported in the capital Luanda in December last year. The disease has now infected more than 490 people and killed 198, says WHO.
