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Johannesburg, South Africa - The Joburg Film Festival taking place in the heart of Egoli, today announced the opening film, Moussa Sene Absa directed...

Johannesburg, Monday 10 July 2017 – As part of the Commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Dakar 1987 Talks and Celebration activities around...

Ikea, the Swedish company that specialises in designing and manufacturing furniture, appliances and home technology, wants to collaborate with South African and African designers...

Fifa’s new secretary-general is an African, and just as extraordinary, a woman. Senegal’s Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura’s appointment is being greeted with optimism in the football world with Fifa’s president Gianni Infantino believing she is the best person to help him rebuild the organisation.

The Great Green Wall of Africa is an AU vision to create an enormous belt of trees running for 7 000 kilometres along the southern border of the Sahara, from the west coast all the way to the east. A plan to stop desertification, it's been described as a "daring endeavour in human history, a real world wonder".

African musicians of today are more than just singers banging out a beat for people to dance. They tackle pressing issues using ancient musical traditions, keeping alive the spirit of West Africa's griots. They too are the oral story-tellers and poets who have always been the continent's historians and commentators.

Yvonne Chaka Chaka is a versatile woman, and one of the hats she wears is that of honorary colonel in the South African Air Force, where she works closely with the young people of the Air Force Gymnasium, guiding them to make the right career and life decisions.
• Top WEF award for SA singer

The fight against mosquito-borne diseases has gained another child-friendly weapon, in the form of a fun game that conveys important lessons to children about taking preventive action.
• Board game makes Aids education fun

In East and West African communities, the NightWatch communications campaign reminds people, via radio, television and text messages, to get under their mosquito nets as part of the fight against malaria.
• Top WEF award for SA singer

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