Gift of the Givers teams provide hot meals to flood displaced victims in Soweto [ Dec 9, 2022 – File photo] Wed 05 March 2025: At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives. This is due to a combination of factors, including unemployment, poverty, inequality and food system […]
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Tue 04 March 2025: The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy has announced the adjustment of fuel prices with effect from 5 March 2025. Based on current local and international factors, the fuel prices for March 2025 will be adjusted as follows: Petrol 93 (ULP & LRP): 7 cents per litre (7.00 cents per litre (c/l)) […]
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Tue 04 March 2025: South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.6% in the fourth quarter of 2024, following a decrease of 0.1% in the third quarter of 2024. This is according to Statistics South Africa (Stats SA), which attributed the growth to, among others, an increase by 17.2% in the agriculture, forestry and […]
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Patrice Lumumba, center, first Prime Minister of independent Congo in 1960. The CIA celebrated his death Tue 04 March 2025: Historian Susan Williams grew up in Zambia. Like other scholars of her generation raised in former settler societies of southern Africa, she empathises with the continent’s people. Williams’ widely acknowledged new book, White Malice – The CIA and […]
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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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