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We tested baby food sugar levels in South Africa. This is what we found
We analysed the sugar content of baby food products which are commercially available, targeted at children under 12 months and sold in…
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What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about megacities in Africa
Zendai, a Chinese developer, bought a 1600-hectare site north-east of Johannesburg for the development, which it quickly dubbed as the…
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27 April: South Africa Celebrates Freedom Day
The 27th of April marks Freedom Day, an annual celebration of the first 1994 non-racial democratic elections in South Africa.
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Google celebrates jazz icon Hugh Masekela
Google has unveiled a new addition to its Doodle series featuring Hugh Masekela, a legendary jazz musician known as the…
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South African Elections: What You Need to Know
South Africa holds its sixth national election on May 8, coinciding with the country’s celebration of its silver jubilee as…
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South African Surgeon Implants World First 3D-Printed Middle-Ear Bones
The Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Tshwane has successfully completed the world's first ever middle ear transplant, using 3D-printed middle…
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Land in South Africa: dispossession, resistance and restitution
The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
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South African Actress to Star in First African Netflix Series
Pearl Thusi will star in Queen Sono, Netflix’s first original series from Africa, Channel24 reports. “This was a dream of mine…
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Insult Puts South Africa-Rwanda Relations on Ice
South Africa has summoned the Rwandan envoy in Pretoria after a Rwandan pro-government news site reportedly called a key minister…
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Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of the African continent, variably defined by geography or geopolitics, and including several countries. The term southern Africa or Southern Africa, generally includes Angola, Botswana, Eswatini(Swaziland), Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, though…
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Steve Biko on The Black Consciousness Movement
The first couple of minutes of this video is a video clip of the interview with Steven..then, the rest is…
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Bessie Head: A Life of Letters
In a letter to her agent, Bessie Head acknowledged that her 1974 novel, A Question of Power, had been based on…
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Quett Ketumile Joni Masire (1925-2017), the great African leader you may have never heard of
Quett Masire, president of Botswana from 1980 to 1998, passed away aged 91 on 22 June 2017. He was one of Africa’s…
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Malema Might Have A Point About South African Indian People
After Economic Freedom Fighters commander-in-chief Julius Malema made controversial comments about Indian people during the party’s 4th-anniversary celebrations in Durban…
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