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The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North ...

As part of their survey, researchers examined declassified U.S. spy satellite imagery from the 1970s, which is now in the public domain, and compared the visual data to modern-day photography and ...

Analysis - The world's first superstar hippo lives in a zoo in Thailand. Moo Deng shot to fame soon after she was born in ...

In 1986, Nigerian playwright, poet, and essayist Wole Soyinka made history as the first African laureate to receive the Nobel ...

With less than a month until holiday-goers flood into KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) for the festive season, several beaches in the ...

CEO James Mwangi says the Group plans to triple its regional subsidiaries to 15 by 2030, starting with Ethiopia before moving ...

In collaboration with Afreximbank, ART X Lagos also presented Art Across Borders: Where to Go, featuring six mid-career ...

Following recent cases of food poisoning among learners across the country, the Gauteng Department of Education on Friday ...

A safer South Africa is only possible with less gun crime. Achieving that requires more from police than recovering illegal guns.

Focusing on climate finance, the decisions to be taken at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in ...

The two new cases are household contacts of the first case recorded in the UK, who contracted the virus after returning from ...