President Jacob Zuma and local councillors in South Africa enjoy lower levels of trust than the country's nine provincial premiers...

A new diamond mining company with operations in Botswana and Lesotho has announced the discovery of what it says is...

In August 2012, police gunned down striking miners in the platinum belt of South Africa, in what has been been...

Egypt plunged 14 places in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance rankings in the five years to 2013. It deteriorated...

Cote d'Ivoire has emerged from a contested election and conflict during the past five years to become the African nation...

Midway through the first round of the football World Cup in Brazil, the African teams with the best chance of...

A South African blog on getting older, My New Old Self: What to do next for the rest of my...

Despite the progress Rwanda has made in the 20 years since the genocide, communities across the country remain divided and...

Johannesburg's Soweto is best known as the place where 14-year school pupils sparked the second major uprising against apartheid in...

At South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, young professionals such as Natasha Govender of the Mobile...