Mon 03 March 2025: The Department of Health will initiate a consultative process this week with various organisations impacted by the decision of the United States government to freeze and reduce donor funding for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) response programmes. This follows the announcement by the United States President Donald Trump’s administration about significant cuts […]
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Mon 03 March 2025: South Africa is one of only 52 countries that guarantee access to water as a human right. “Access” from a human rights perspective means that water is physically accessible, clean and safe for consumption, and affordable. Section 27 of the country’s constitution stipulates that everyone has the right to access sufficient water. But South […]
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Sun 02 March 2025: During the trans-Atlantic slave trade, millions of Africans were captured to provide free labour in North and South America and the Caribbean for over four and a half centuries. The question of whether reparations should be paid to the continent of Africa for the trans-Atlantic slave trade is still being debated. It is unlikely […]
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Fri 28 February 2025: The Türkiye-Africa Media Forum, organized by Türkiye’s Communications Directorate, started on Friday. The forum’s opening speeches were made by African Union of Broadcasting CEO Gregoire Ndjaka, Libya’s National Unity Communication and Political Affairs Minister Walid Ammar Ellafi, and Turkish Communications Director Fahrettin Altun. “We believe that this forum will take our […]
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Fri 28 February 2025: President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly condemned lobby groups AfriForum and the Solidarity Movement, accusing them of fueling division by seeking intervention from the United States government instead of addressing South Africa’s challenges internally. The groups recently sent a delegation to the US, stating in a memorandum that they had met with […]
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Fri 28 February 2025: Rights chief Turk warns of ‘explosion into chaos’ unless action is taken to end war as famine strikes deeper. More than 600,000 people in Sudan are “on the brink of starvation” as famine stalks the war-torn country, the United Nations has warned. UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday […]
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Fri 28 February 2025: South Africa has one of the highest unemployment rates in the world. The official rate is 32%, rising to 42% when discouraged job seekers are included. Among young people aged 15 to 24, unemployment reaches a staggering 60%. While much attention has focused on youth exclusion from the labour market and their survival strategies, far less is […]
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Fri 28 February 2025: After eight years of negotiations, Botswana and De Beers Group finally signed the renewed diamond sales agreement on Tuesday in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Botswanan President Duma Boko said during the signing ceremony that the new agreement added a possible five-year extension to the provisional deal. Describing the new agreement […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has introduced several security upgrades after uncovering fake websites targeting COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (cSRD) grant applicants. The official application site is https://SRD.sassa.gov.za, but two fraudulent platforms—https://srd-sassa.org.za and https://srdsassagov.co.za—were found to be stealing personal information from applicants hoping to access the R370 grant. […]
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Thu 27 February 2025: Militaries that have taken power in Africa’s Sahel region – notably Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger – have put pressure on western mining firms for a fairer distribution of revenue from the lucrative mining sector. Gold is one of the resources at the heart of these tensions. West Africa has been a renowned […]
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