Illegal mining remains common in South Africa's old gold-mining areas, with miners going into closed shafts to dig for any possible remaining deposits. The illegal miners are often from ...

Competition will be fierce with only one guaranteed spot available to Mali and Ghana (Group I), Nigeria and South Africa (Group C), and Senegal and DR Congo (Group B). The first four matchdays are in ...

But for Letsile Tebogo, who only a year earlier had become Africa’s first world 100m medallist in athletics ... it was Tebogo who triumphed when it mattered most, proving the age-old adage that ...

Penn Museum says they have discovered another set of human remains believed to belong to 12-year-old Delisha Africa, one of the victims of the 1985 MOVE bombing in West Philadelphia. The remains ...

England are looking to banish their autumn frustrations at South Africa’s expense this Saturday and have vowed “not to shut up shop” against the reigning world champions. Successive defeats ...

Murithi Mutiga, program director for Africa at the Crisis Group, says the President-elect is “a committed isolationist and clearly wants to pull back” on various fronts across the world.

26-year-old Lesego Chombo, Miss Botswana 2022 and Miss World Africa 2024 will lead the Ministry of Youth and Gender Affairs. Dr Phenyo Butale has been appointed as the new Minister of International ...

Find the best universities in Africa using Times Higher Education’s data from the World University Rankings and the Sub-Saharan Africa University Rankings, and learn how they shine a spotlight on ...

An eight-year-old mountaineer from Cumbria said he felt “so proud” after completing an “emotional” expedition up the highest peak in north Africa with his mother. Frankie McMillan has been ...

In this episode of “Eat Like a Local”, chef Chris Shepherd takes a deep dive into a cuisine he admittedly knows very little about – west African. Chris enlists the help of chef/owner Ope ...

The 15-year-old South African ... The whole world is my oyster now and I am proud of myself.” The youngster has been selected as the first South African actress to attend the Universal Actors ...

Numbers and equations reign supreme in this day and age, a phenomenon that 7-year-old Azure Rhéa Naidu understands ... She recently made major strides at the South African Mathematics Olympiad ...