africa day

Africa Day gave the 2016 participants of Miss Earth South Africa a chance to get their hands dirty when they planted trees at Midrand Primary School, all in the name of protecting our environment.

Brand South Africa celebrates Africa Day in Kwa-Zulu Natal.                                    

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The continent's diversity is celebrated in its arts and culture this Africa Day, on 25 May. South Africa is celebrating the day with a month-long celebration of what it means to be African. And in Johannesburg, the fourth Pan-African Cultural Congress will look at harnessing cultural diversity.

In his State of the Province Address delivered on Monday 23 February, Gauteng Premier David Makhura outlined his government's plans to transform, modernise and reindustrialise the most economically developed region in Africa. Read the full speech here.

South Africa joined the rest of the continent in commemorating Africa Day on Sunday. Held on 25 May each year, Africa Day marks the anniversary of the formation of the Organisation of African Unity, now known as the African Union, in 1963.

Unisa is the country's oldest education institution, at 140 years. It has offered education opportunities to people from all over Africa, and has alumni working around the world.
• Mandela's 'classrooms for human beings'

The R150-million Soweto Theatre will do more than boost tourism and the performing arts in South Africa's famous township. It forms part of a multi-million rand "culture-led" urban regeneration project in the area, and in pure visual terms has made an immediate impact on its surroundings.

African and the Caribbean governments are set to invest more resources and energy towards developing and promoting stronger linkages between the two regions in the fields of trade and investment, science and technology and tourism.

The Global African Diaspora Summit took place towards the end of May in Johannesburg, with top-level gatherings taking place ahead of the main event on Africa Day on 25 May.
• Building a thriving African brand