In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold ...

A law that allows the government to confiscate land has reignited racial tensions that have dogged Africa's southernmost tip ...

THE presence of South African entrepreneurs as exhibitors in the Fruit Logistica Berlin 2025 underlines the country’s position as a strategic partner to Germany. This is according to South African ...

In South Africa, the interest rates decisions are taken by the South African Reserve Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The official interest rate is the repo rate. This is the rate at ...

Widely seen as West Africa’s top political and regional authority, the 15-nation ECOWAS was formed in 1975 to “promote economic integration” in member states. It has struggled in recent years to ...

They didn’t serve in Europe but in the fringe battles in Africa, where Allied forces fought in the then-German colonies of German South West Africa (now Namibia) and German East Africa (now Tanzania, ...

had wrestled the then South West Africa from its German rulers in the First World War in what was militarily a markedly successful campaign of territorial conquest. I was on that train, partly because ...

01/29/2025 January 29, 2025 German merchants were key players in Africa's colonization, with Hamburg businessman Adolph Woermann at the forefront. His vast shipping empire dominated West African ...

Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers breaking news and updates on Politics, Current Affairs ...

Chatham House convening and research focuses on social norms and anti-corruption programming in Nigeria; cross-border conflict and smuggling across West Africa as part of the XCEPT research programme; ...

In a Cape Town memorial opened Wednesday, African "iroko" hardwood posts bear the names and the date of death of 1,700 Black South African servicemen who died in non-combatant roles in WWI.