Kaizer Chiefs ended their worst start to a South African Premiership season by thrashing 10-man Cape Town City 4-1 Saturday and climbing eight places to fifth. The famed Soweto club, winners of 53 domestic trophies since being formed 48 years ago, drew four of their opening five league matches and lost the other. Supporters, furious after the ...

A try 40 seconds into the first half set Western Province up for a surprisingly convincing 65-38 victory over the Golden Lions Saturday in the South African Currie Cup. Discarded Springbok winger Dillyn Leyds was the early scorer and Province went on to claim a bonus-point victory at Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg after leading 39-10 at half ...

Leading South African rugby analyst and former Springboks coach Nick Mallett admitted to being amazed by the shock 36-34 victory over the All Blacks in New Zealand Saturday. Humble pie never tasted so delicious, said the SuperSport pundit after the biggest Test upset this year, having predicted South Africa would do well to lose by less than 2 ...

South Africa pulled off a shock 36-34 victory over the world champion All Blacks in Wellington on Saturday, steered home by the accurate boot of Handre Pollard. It was New Zealand's first loss in the competition in three years, although they remain head of the table with two rounds still to play. The All Blacks outscored the Springboks six tr ...

Dr. Awele Elumelu, GAVI Champion for Africa and Founder, Avon Medical Practice, joined other global health leaders at a Photo Exhibition organised by GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, for increased vaccine coverage in under-immunised nations. The event tagged ldquo;Vaccine Heroes rdquo; was held on September 10, 2018, in Geneva, Switzerland. lrm; Fol ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo wants special economic zones for its growing mining industry to encourage companies who export raw materials to transform them into finished products locally, president Kabila said this week at a mining conference. We need to establish special economic zones for the final users of Congolese natural resources , p ...

Dressed as zombies, superheroes, villainous ogres and masked angels, thousands of fans flocked to Africa's first Comic Con on Friday for the start of the three-day event outside Johannesburg. Tickets for the comic, animation and gaming convention were sold out before the gates opened, with 18,000 people expected on each day, and organisers appea ...

The UN warned Friday that shelling and air strikes in Yemen's Hodeida province have targeted humanitarian workers and infrastructure, threatening its ability to feed 3.5 million very hungry people. The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was extremely concerned about the series of security incidents in Hodeida city these past few days in and a ...

Ugandan navy speedboats sliced through murky Lake Edward towards a fleet of wooden canoes carrying illegal fishermen from the Democratic Republic of Congo, hightailing it back to their own waters. Stop the boat, hands up, surrender any weapons, yelled Lieutenant Deogratius Kato as the soldiers surrounded a motorised canoe after a 20-minute cha ...

Mauritius rsquo; forward-thinking and nimble policies have resulted in the island nation riding the wave to the centre of investment and development in Africa. Firmly established as Africa rsquo;s most progressive business orientated jurisdiction, Mauritius rsquo; forward-thinking and nimble policies have resulted in the island nation riding the ...

Wearing a black Hate Hero T-shirt, a large pair of headphones clamped over his ears, the young singer croons into a microphone at a simple recording studio inside a prison in Burkina Faso. Known as Johnyto, the 25-year-old is serving two years for being an accomplice to robbery at an overcrowded prison known for its abysmal conditions in Bobo- ...

World leaders past and present, traditional rulers and global royalty on Thursday joined the family of Kofi Annan, as the former UN secretary general's state funeral took place in his native Ghana. Hundreds of dignitaries, most of them dressed in black mourning clothes, gathered at the Accra International Conference Centre, to mark the end of th ...

A stone's throw from the presidential palace in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, men sit for hours playing fanorona -- a cross between chequers and chess -- on wooden boards with black and white pieces. If you're not up to it, just say so, you're just slipping up and trying to bluster your way through, teased Raymond General Rasaminarivo, ...

Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan will be buried in his native Ghana on Thursday after a state funeral attended by world leaders past and present, traditional rulers and global royalty. The ceremony at the Accra International Conference Centre, which starts at 8:30 am (0830 GMT), marks the end of three days of national mourning for the resp ...

WASHINGTON, September 12, 2018 mdash; The average quality of policies and institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa was broadly unchanged in 2017, according to the latest review by the World Bank. This is a shift from the deterioration observed in the previous year. This analysis covers 38 countries and describes the progress these countries are makin ...

Rent-a-room giant Airbnb on Wednesday accused the Paris official seeking to ban the service in the city of electioneering and insisted it enjoys widespread support in the French capital. The city's housing chief Ian Brossat said last week he would seek to outlaw home rentals in central Paris because services like Airbnb were forcing out resident ...

Six humanitarian groups working in the north of the troubled Central African Republic on Wednesday halted operations to protest violent attacks against their personnel. Baptise Hanquart of the charities' umbrella organisation CCO said 32 incidents had been recorded, including 21 since June, in the market town of Kaga Bandoro alone. Seven staf ...

Botswana launched a review Wednesday of a 2014 hunting ban imposed to reverse a decline in elephants and other wildlife. The prohibition on big game sports hunting was the work of ex-president Ian Khama, a keen conservationist, to shield species decimated by hunting and habitat loss. But lawmakers from the ruling Botswana Democratic party hav ...

European Commission head Jean Claude Juncker on Wednesday called for a new alliance with Africa that would create millions of jobs and include a free trade deal. His call came as European countries are struggling to find a united solution to slow the flow of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean, mainly to Spain and Italy, in search of a ...

Just back from the hunt with a choice selection of plants, Ebona feels at home in the endless forest where many Gabonese fear to tread. Townsfolk paid me to find these leaves, the Pygmy says, setting the heap down outside his wooden hut, 500 metres (yards) from the rest of Doumassi village in north Gabon. Ebona's people, the Baka, are held ...