PRETORIA, South Africa — South African athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released from prison on parole and is now at home, South Africa’s Department of Corrections said Friday. The department gave no more details of Pistorius’ release. The announcement came at around 8:30 a.m., indicating corrections officials had released the world-famous double-amputee Olympic runner from … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Peter Magubane, a South African photojournalist who documented apartheid’s unrest and repression and was also caught in its grip, once jailed in solitary confinement for 586 days and banned from work for five years by the White-rule regime, died Jan. 1 at 91. The death was announced … Read more
CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died. He was 91. Magubane died Monday, according to the South African National Editors’ … Read more
Speaking out for the first time, the son of a wealthy Pennsylvania dentist who murdered his own wife on an African vacation — and then tried to cover it up — says he didn’t believe his father, Larry Rudolph, could do such a thing until he saw “horrifying” photos from the scene and heard soul-crushing … Read more
KAMPALA, Uganda — Lilian Nabulime hasn’t forgotten the time in the 1990s when the Ugandan capital had just one commercial art gallery, a small space that emerging artists struggled to get into. Now, there are at least six in Kampala, including one whose curator recently exhibited the sculptor’s contrarian work. Nabulime’s show, which has attracted … Read more
TUNL, a South African parcel shipping platform, has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding from investors, including Founders Factory Africa, Digital Africa Ventures, E4E Africa, and Jozi Angels. The platform, which claims to help e-commerce merchants save between 50% and 80% on international shipping costs, said the funding will fuel its expansion in its primary … Read more
JOHANNESBURG — A South African court has overturned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to recognize Misuzulu kaZwelithini as the king of the country’s 15 million-strong Zulu nation in what may spark a lengthy battle for the throne. Ramaphosa has now been ordered to launch an investigation into objections by some members of the Zulu royal house … Read more
A man charged with terrorism and other offenses over a 2022 fire that badly damaged South Africa’s historic Parliament complex in Cape Town has been declared unfit to stand trial ByGERALD IMRAY Associated Press December 11, 2023, 10:30 AM FILE – Smoke rises from the Parliament in Cape Town, South Africa, Monday, Jan 3, 2022 … Read more
ABUJA, Nigeria — In a renewed push for respect for democracy in coup-hit West Africa, leaders from across the region kicked off a crucial meeting in Nigeria on Sunday and acknowledged for the first time that their efforts to stem the tide of coups have so far met with little success. The 15-nation regional bloc, … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave At the Paris funeral of Congolese writer Henri Lopes, mourners from literary communities on two continents praised the searing truths of his novels that used fictional strongmen to ridicule political corruption and brutality in Africa. Also in attendance at the Nov. 14 service was a high-level delegation … Read more