Each year, after much consideration and debate, Afar’s global network of editors, writers, and travel advisors anoints the ...

After a week of stress-reducing activities (and no caffeine) in what has to be one of the prettiest places to decompress, ...

A new book argues that South Africa should ‘start again’, but the reviewer says it doesn’t make a strong case.

April brings critical economic challenges for South Africa in 2025, highlighted by a pivotal Budget vote and looming tariffs ...

A US man living in SA shared his amazement after getting a haircut for just R20 in a small Western Cape town, highlighting ...

Since its inception in 2018, the Africa Business Forum has promoted dialogue between governments, investors, service providers, project promotors and other stakeholders on challenges, opportunities, ...

After independence, internal divisions between the wealthier north and less-developed south triggered decades of violent conflict, including two civil wars. The second Sudanese civil war lasted ...

His parents moved to Ivory Coast in the 1980s, towards the end of a period of exceptional economic growth that economists dubbed the “Ivorian miracle”. They came to work, drawn by the country ...

STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...

Until now, the most African teams who have been present in a single edition of the tournament was six in 2010, when hosts South Africa were added to the five regular qualifiers. For 2026, nine ...

Tensions with the United States could propel South Africa to depart from the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) agreement, a development that could also have regional ramifications and add ...

“It was absolutely beautiful.” When she returned to South Africa the following year, she was hired as a reporter in the Bureau of Information, the apartheid regime’s propaganda win ...