malaria

South Africa’s Yvonne Chaka Chaka, popular singer-songwriter and Goodwill Ambassador for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, has become the first African woman to receive the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award.
• SA songbird backs malaria fight

South African singer and humanitarian Yvonne Chaka Chaka has received the World Economic Forum's Crystal Award for artists who use their talents to improve the state of the world.

South African rock band The Parlotones will be climbing Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, as part of an awareness campaign to end violence against women and girls on the continent.
• Women’s rights in SA to advance

A new state-of-the-art paediatric eye-care centre has opened at the Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital in Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. The new facility is a major step forward for child eye health in South Africa.
• R13.8m surgical skills centre for SA

India has revealed plans to invest R39-billion (US$5.7-billion) in education and development in Africa as part of the Africa-India framework for enhanced cooperation.
• BRICS in a nutshell

South African explorer Kingsley Holgate is back on the road for an ultra-long expedition, this time to boost malaria-prevention efforts in South Sudan and wish the new nation well as it celebrates independence on 9 July 2011.
• Adventurer spreads his nets wide

The Trucking Wellness programme, which provides primary healthcare and HIV/Aids awareness to truck drivers along South Africa’s major routes, has received 10 more mobile centres.
• Healthcare from your mobile

What languages do South Africans speak? Is South Africa a democracy? Are there big cities with modern amenities? Are the roads tarred? How far will my money go? ... You've got three minutes to spare? Here's the lowdown on why South Africa's going to surprise you.

When Africa is mentioned, wild animals often come to mind. Now, in Southern Sudan, this is being taken a step further with plans to restructure two cities into the shapes of a giant rhino and a giraffe.

More than five million lives can be saved in the next five years if governments and donors invest fully in a new global plan to stop tuberculosis launched in Johannesburg, Berlin and Geneva this week by the World Health Organization's Stop TB Partnership.