Fights broke out Saturday in the South African township of Soweto between supporters of the ruling ANC party and activists from the opposition Democratic Alliance, less than a month before general elections. Violence broke out after militant ANC supporters…
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GENEVA, Switzerland, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Community acceptance, provision of impartial treatment and psychosocial support for medical…
PRETORIA, South-Africa, April 10, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — During a two-day consultation, HIV surveillance experts in South Africa agreed…
South Africa’s workplaces are still heavily racially skewed 20 years after the fall of apartheid, with only one fifth of top executive positions held by blacks, said a report published Wednesday. “The majority of work places are still ‘lilly white’…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, April 8, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Infobip (http://www.infobip.com), a global provider of mobile messaging and payments, announced…
11:42 GMT – Big questions – Some big questions have emerged from Pistorius’s testimony about the night of the shooting, writes AFP’s southern Africa news editor Andrew Beatty. “If he shouted why did Steenkamp not answer? “If the room was dark — the…
South Africa remains the most important economy in the continent despite being overtaken by Nigeria as Africa’s biggest, South African economists said. The result of a long awaited rebasing of Africa’s most populous nation showed that Nigeria’s GDP…
CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 7, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — In line with its commitment to Africa’s rapidly growing markets, Sidel…
British businessman Shrien Dewani will arrive in Cape Town next week to stand trial on charges that he arranged the murder of his 28-year-old Swedish bride, it was announced on Friday. “After a successful extradition process, Mr Dewani is expected to…
The long-serving and trusted white personal aide of Nelson Mandela will publish her memoirs in June about how her life was transformed by South Africa’s late anti-apartheid icon, Penguin Books announced Thursday. Zelda la Grange, Mandela’s private assistant…
DUBLIN, Ireland, March 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, March 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will air a 24-minute documentary…
NEW YORK, March 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Three prominent personalities in the field of climate action congratulated Cape…
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa, March 28, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Rotary Family Health Days (http://www.rotary.org) – an innovative international campaign providing…
WINDHOEK, Namibia, March 25, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — With a 35+ year track record in and on Africa, Global…
IBM’s Big Data analytics to help crack the code of the tuberculosis genome and uncover new diagnosis and treatment approaches IBM Corporation logo. (PRNewsFoto/IBM Corporation) DURBAN, South Africa, March 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — On World Tuberculosis…
Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial entered its fourth week on Monday with more testimony on gunshots and a woman’s terrified screams on the night the star Paralympian shot dead his glamorous girlfriend. Anette Stipp, a neighbour and one of the prosecution…
British murder suspect Shrien Dewani will be extradited to South Africa next month to face charges he arranged to have his wife killed during their honeymoon, officials said Sunday. South Africa’s Justice Department said Dewani, 33, is expected to leave…
The murder trial of Paralympian Oscar Pistorius for shooting dead his girlfriend has been extended until May 16, the South African court hearing the case said Sunday. The trial, which enters its fourth week on Monday, will continue until April 4, then…
South Africa’s ANC looks set to win a two-thirds majority in May elections, according to an opinion poll published Sunday that appears to fly in the face of public perceptions about its performance. The party that has ruled South Africa since the first…