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Mercedes Sayagues works from Pretoria, South Africa. Journalist, editor, media trainer Mercedes Sayagues has over 121 followers on Twitter.
Women, especially the poor, face innumerable obstacles when they try to access technology
Good things are being said about the World Health Organisation since Ethiopia’s man came on board
Infrastructure is abysmal in Maputo, toilets stink, events start late but the cultural scene is lively and diverse, writes Mercedes Sayagues.
A new festival of contemporary arts is shaking up the Comoros with provocative works that confront the island nation’s fraught post-colonial history.
Mpumalanga-based journalists discovered a new circumcision device, called PrePex, at a Bhekisisa media training event on Monday.
Researchers say the increase in male medical circumcision services should go hand in hand with a plan to maintain quality, according to a study.
Mercedes Sayagues visits chocolate baron Claudio Corallo on the island of São Tomé
I love a country where having a mojito at 10am is perfectly fine. Muy chévere. Have another one. Otro mojito. And one Cuba Libre, please. Cubans start drinking whenever it…
In that pleasant land, the universal myths of Cinderella and Peter Pan — the woman who marries up and the boy who does not want to grow up — are re-enacted collectively every…
Passion, power and sex wrapped in fab music: see U-Carmen eKhayelitsha. I couldn’t disagree more with Mail & Guardian reviewer Khubu Meth (Friday, May 13), who finds it…
My friend in Mutare, Zimbabwe, writes me an e-mail: ”The roses are blooming in the garden, my German shepherd sleeps under the window and my young lover is back in my arms.”…
I saw a particular skirt at Woolworths when I moved to Pretoria in 2001. Late last year I saw it advertised as the latest fashion in Lusaka. My Zambian friends often gripe about…
”I am chatting on the phone with a friend. I tell him I have met this cool man from Cape Verde. ‘Tsk tsk tsk,” he goes. ‘There you go, joining the multiple-partner risk-group for…
Most Africans know what to say about Aids — information campaigns have achieved this much. However, being designed in the capitals by Western-educated health experts and NGO…
In the Nguni languages, an indlavini is a violent and reckless man who disrespects elders and tradition. The tough cities also produced the utsotsi, a street-wise petty criminal…
It’s 1.30pm in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, on Friday. Traffic stops around the Old Mosque. Thousands fill the streets. When the muezzin calls, they kneel, bow and pray in…
STATE terrorism has escalated in Zimbabwe with Sunday’s bomb attack on the independent newspaper, the Daily News. Only the Zimbabwe Corps of Engineers and three Special Forces…
Mercedes Sayagues reports from Bikita, where a by-election has turned the area into a battleground.
