South Africa

South Africa's Council of Ministers will soon meet to discuss the International Criminal Court/Vladimir Putin dossier

The first low-cost 3D-printed construction has been recently completed: with this technology a house can be built in less than 24 hours

This year, the South African radio system celebrates one hundred years since its inception, with the first transmission being aired in December 1923 from the Johannesburg railway station

Kiernan Forbes, one of South Africa's most popular rappers, known by his stage name AKA, was shot dead as he walked out of a restaurant in Durban

A report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime GITOC, released in 2022, claims that South Africa has increasingly become a centre of organised crime, transcending national borders

Scheduled blackouts due to the inability of the state-owned energy company Eskom to ensure a sufficient supply of energy resulted in the death of 40.000 chickens on an industrial farm in the country

Mermaiding, swimming with legs wrapped in a monofin, is all the rage in South Africa, with the sport becoming very popular between Johannesburg and Cape Town

The death toll from an explosion of a tanker truck in the town of Boksburg has risen to 34, including 10 health workers at a nearby hospital; the truck was carrying gas when it got stuck under a low-lying bridge

Eskom's CEO has promised a Christmas Day respite from the prolonged and unprecedented power cuts the country has been experiencing for months, though the state-owned company warned that people must prepare for a prolonged electricity crisis

Ruling party kicked off a closely watched convention on Friday that looks set to re-elect Cyril Ramaphosa as its leader, despite money-stealing scandal; 4.500 African National Congress delegates from across the country will vote at the 5-day convention

South African rugby player and Rugby World Cup winner Sbu Nkosi has been reported to the police as a missing person, his club said on Saturday

Sibongile Mongadi, founder of Ukuhamba Prosthetics, a small company that uses 3D technology to produce low-cost prosthetic limbs from recycled materials such as water bottles - makes amputee care accessibile to many who couldn’t afford it

Communities are urged to respect schools, specially during the critical time of examinations for the Grade 12; authorities defined ‘very regressive’ the disrupting of exams because the community has a grievance, saying they wouldn’t tolerate the practice