Tendai “Baba” Maraire, right, with Chimurenga Renaissance collaborator Hussein Kalonji. (Courtesy photo) Tendai Maraire’s work as one half of Shabazz Palaces, along with his project Chimurenga Renaissance, has earned the kind of critical adoration most musicians dream of. Maraire moved to Seattle from Zimbabwe as a small child and, along with his family, became deeply involved in both […]
The British press has been devoting acres of coverage to a £1-billion foreign direct investment deal into Sheffield, a former mining town in northern England. Branded as an extension of the “golden era” of relations between Britain and China, the contract between Sheffield and Sichuan Guodong Construction Group has been heralded as a remarkable […]
In a country that loves its reality shows, a very public competition is attracting record audiences. It does not involve a wedding or a singing child; there is no dancing and no mascara. There is, however, a celebrity: Thuli Madonsela. Appointed as South Africa’s constitutionally mandated public ombudsman – officially known as the public protector […]
Image caption Zephany Nurse was taken three days after being born A South African court has jailed a woman for 10 years for kidnapping a baby from her hospital bed 19 years ago and raising her as her own. The 51-year-old woman was arrested in 2015 after people noticed an uncanny resemblance between the girl, […]
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<!– Summary By Stephen Rakowski Leaders around the world must routinely deal with threats to their personal security. For the heads of many African countries, contending with those threats can be an especially fearsome endeavor. Since gaining their independence, many African nations have remained poor, weak states filled with competing ethnic and political factions, making it […]
Doctors had advised to terminate two of the babies during the pregnancy, after they discovered that one of the eggs had split and the surrogate was pregnant with triplets. However the fathers decided against taking the advice and the babies were born prematurely in early July, weighing each only a little over a kilogramme, and […]
Media playback is not supported on this device Commanding Semenya eases to 800m gold South Africa’s Caster Semenya won Olympic gold in the 800m but Great Britain’s Lynsey Sharp missed out on a medal as she finished sixth. Semenya, 25, set a national record to win in one minute 55.28 seconds and finish well clear […]
South Africa’s first-five Elton Jantjies breaks away from an Argentine player during their first match of the Rugby Championship. A try two minutes from time by Warren Whiteley earned South Africa an unconvincing 30-23 victory over Argentina in an error-strewn Rugby Championship match on Saturday (Sunday NZ Time). The touchdown capped a late fightback by […]
Jamaicans are being urged to look to Africa as a market for their films and other creative works. This call has come from film producer Donisha Prendergast, first grandchild of Bob and Rita Marley. She gave the charge at a private screening of her latest project, 50 Days in Afrika, a docu-film done […]
