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Interview: S.A. Soul Queen Lira set to perform two memorable shows in ...

January 21, 2013 no comments

The sounds of African drumming mixed with loud voices were somewhat cheerful and harmonious in the background when South Africa’s multi-platinum artist Lira answered her phone for a 10 minute intervi...

Brenda Fassie – The irreplaceable queen of African music

January 6, 2013 2 comments

Not too often has the talent of an African Female singer have such an impact on world music as the late Brenda Fassie has. The South African born singer epitomised everything sensational, pure and ri...

Britain’s Daily Mail reports – Jacob Zuma spends £17.5mill...

November 25, 2012 2 comments

One of Britain’s respected and popular newspapers, the Daily Mail, is reporting that South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, has spent £17.5million on his home town palace as his country is ...

President Jacob Zuma should resign – As 270 miners are charged w...

August 30, 2012 1 comment

After sending his reckless police force, some of them remnants of the apartheid era, to force miners to work, by shooting and gunning them down, killing 34 innocent miners who were legitimately prote...

South Africa’s inequality and marginalization still persistent

July 30, 2012 no comments

Last week saw the release of World Bank’s sobering assessment report which revealed that a child’s chance to make it in life as a successful person would be pre-determined by his/her ethnicity at bir...

Winnie Madikizela–Mandela castigates ANC as she endorses Julius Malema...

July 20, 2012 1 comment

The former wife of the anti-apartheid legend; Winnie Madikizela- Mandela has come out and publicly gave an endorsement to Julius Malema. Julius who had earlier on this year got himself expelled from ...

America pays tribute to Mandela on his Birthday

July 19, 2012 no comments

In the eve of Nelson Mandela’s Birthday, U.S President Barack Obama together with his wife Michelle Obama paid an official tribute on Tuesday to South African former president Nelson Mandela. They te...

New railway line set to boost economies of Swaziland and South Africa

January 18, 2012 no comments

MBABANE, (IPS) – The 146-kilometre railway line to be established between South Africa and Swaziland will help reduce the cost of doing business between the two countries. Swazi traders, who import m...

Steve Biko’s legacy lives on in Swaziland’s civil society

December 18, 2011 no comments

Looking at South Africa today, it is clear that the approach of the ANC has not ensured socio-economic justice for the majority of South Africa’s blacks. Indeed, the rich-poor divide has broadened, a...

South Africa convicts man after giving President Zuma a ‘totR...

July 28, 2011 no comments

Prosecutors sin South Africa have said that a man who spilled his glass of whiskey on the president has been convicted of assault.Daryl Peense was arrested and charged with assault on President Jacob...

South African youth leader Julius Malema is accused of funding a lavis...

July 24, 2011 no comments

Julius Malema, South Africa’s youth league leader, has been accused of funding a lavish lifestyle through private business dealings by a  local South African newspaper . The newspaper, City Pre...

South African President Jacob Zuma: NATO has misused Security Council ...

June 15, 2011 no comments

The President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has said in a wide-ranging speech to parliament, that he had “spoken out against the misuse of” a U.N. Security Council resolution supported by ...

Mugabe makes attempt to distance himself after slamming Zuma

April 6, 2011 1 comment

HARARE, April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe distanced himself Wednesday from state media’s blistering comments on South African President Jacob Zuma, in a bid to end a ...

Police in South Africa raid Henry Okah’s prison cell

February 24, 2011 no comments

JOHANNESBURG, February 24, 2011 (AFP) – South African police have raided the prison cell of a man accused of orchestrating deadly bombings in Nigeria after authorities there said he had threate...

Winnie Mandela charged to court in South Africa

February 11, 2011 no comments

JOHANNESBURG, February 11, 2011 (AFP) – A South African police officer who clashed with the ex-wife of former president Nelson Mandela after stopping her car for speeding pressed criminal charg...

Jacob Zuma under pressure to fight corruption and create jobs for Sout...

February 8, 2011 no comments

CAPE TOWN, February 8, 2011 (AFP) – South African President Jacob Zuma will on Thursday address the nation after asking for input from users of Twitter and Facebook who told him they want jobs,...