South African government says it won’t help thousands of illegal miners inside a closed mine
South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...
How the Protea Became a Symbol for South Africa
The resilient species — which regrow after wildfires — are said to capture the spirit of a nation reborn.
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Inside South Africa's Operation Dudula: 'Why we hate foreigners'
South African anti-migrant group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to ...
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Africa’s Super Park
In 1990, when Namibia at last gained independence from South Africa, it was one of the first ... an inadvertent memorial to the labor of those men who crawled across the desert sifting the gravel ...
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South Africa: Walking Joburg's Biggest Baddest River - a Very Old Church and a Mermaid
As the magnitude of Johannesburg's water crisis becomes clear, water authorities are beginning to look at what it would take to use water from alternative sources, including Joburg's rivers. To gauge ...
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Mild stretch of weather continues for Calgary
We are almost half way through November and so far overall conditions have been warm and dry. That trend isn’t expected to ...
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South Africa: Walking Joburg's Biggest, Baddest River - Gold Dust and Gunk
The De Villiers Graaff Motorway embankment rose in front of us, its golden sands deeply fissured by water run-off. From the top, Barker, a city planner by profession, explained how the landscape to ...
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Andrew Harding: A fond farewell to an uneasy South Africa
As he prepares to leave South Africa ... the men. "We'll fix our problems here. We'll even fix the load-shedding." That's another South African euphemism - for power cuts. We laughed - half ...
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Africa’s Unequal Pandemic
The Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa have initiated a range of fiscal ... it found that the shift to more employment in services is two and a half times larger for women than for men ...
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How Lagos has become Africa’s boom town
Adeoti walked inside to find six young men wedged behind desks with computer ... As a result, Nigeria determined that its GDP surpassed South Africa’s in 2012 to become the continent’s largest ...
More than 800 million adults have diabetes globally, many untreated, study suggests
More than 800 million adults have diabetes worldwide – almost twice as many as previous estimates have suggested – and more ...
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Africa’s largest dam powers dreams of prosperity in Ethiopia — and fears of hunger in Egypt
Ethiopians see building the dam as a fundamental right, one that could bring electricity to the more than half of Ethiopians ... the largest hydropower plant in Africa. Across Ethiopia, poor ...