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It’s been a little more than a year since Stellenbosch University’s postgraduate programme in renewable and sustainable energy studies opened its doors and welcomed its first…
Some of South Africa’s leading scientists, science fundis and environmental experts are working on solutions to arrest global warming and help alleviate its effects. Electrical…
The Democratic Republic of Congo, not exactly a country synonymous with state-of-the-art scientific facilities, is about to get a new multimillion-rand laboratory, which, when…
Presidential candidate Simba Makoni used the word “renewal” a total of 13 times during an exclusive interview with the Mail & Guardian, saying Zimbabwe needed fresh leadership to…
Ghana’s two largest political parties have vowed to battle it out for the December 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections. Ghana News Agency reported that the ruling New…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was in Nairobi in a bid to mediate between newly-elected President Mwai Kibaki and defeated opposition leader Raila Odinga on Thursday, said at a…
Two former leading lights of Zimbabwe’s struggle era can testify to how tough life can be for those who try to chart their own course outside the liberation movement. In 1988…
The last stretch of talks mediated by President Thabo Mbeki will be a key test of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) ability to press meaningful…
The jailed leader of a separatist movement in the south-east of Nigeria — known formerly as Biafra — was released from detention at the end of October in a move analysts hailed…
Just four months before scheduled elections, and with a breakthrough in talks brokered by President Thabo Mbeki in sight, Zimbabweans are watching in dismay as the opposition…
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party and the opposition MDC were the "closest they have been" to reaching an agreement over key sections of a new constitution this week, but rowed…
President Thabo Mbeki has appointed former National Assembly speaker Frene Ginwala to conduct the enquiry into whether National Director of Public Prosecutions Vusi Pikoli is fit…
Zimbabwe’s opposition might have agreed to an accommodation with Zanu-PF after the ruling party told South African President Thabo Mbeki’s mediators the next phase of the talks…
Zimbabwean businesses have warned Robert Mugabe’s government that legislation allowing for the seizure of foreign-owned companies will have dire consequences on an economy that…
Stiff challenges to President Robert Mugabe’s controversial economic policies are now coming from within his own party. In a move that is likely to rankle Mugabe, his own…
Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party has called a surprise special congress for December, setting the stage for a showdown between President Robert Mugabe and rivals within his party,…
They have fought over Zimbabwe’s best farms, and now senior figures in Zanu-PF are limbering up for a new battle — this time over an array of foreign assets that will be put up…
In the five months since the Southern African Development Community (SADC) asked President Thabo Mbeki to mediate in the Zimbabwe crisis, Robert Mugabe has pushed through…
The 2007 Africa Competitiveness Report — a joint effort of the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and the African Development Bank — identifies low overall competitiveness as…
Four automated teller machines (ATMs) were blown up in separate incidents around the country in the past week. However, the South African Banking Risk Information Centre is…
