Basketball is one of the fastest growing sports in South Africa, with junior leagues exploding thanks in part to the Basketball Africa League (BAL).
The group, Sunshine Cinema, currently works in four countries aiming to inspire more youth on the continent through African films
The University of Johannesburg has launched a 3D printing technique that can build a house in one day. The university is working on a government pilot project to build low-cost homes in South Africa, which has a severe housing shortage
Soweto Creamery opened its doors with government COVID grants but now faces new epidemic: power cuts
Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress may have brought freedom to South Africa, but that freedom has been marred by corruption allegations at the party’s highest levels
Peace talks held in Pretoria between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front were due to end Sunday
The brain and wealth drains are hitting the country's tax budget revenues
Between regular blackouts and a heavy reliance on coal, the country’s largest industry, mining is turning to solar, wind energy
The biggest retail chains are increasing the share of locally-produced clothes and textiles, cutting the need for foreign-made goods
Flood victims in the port city of Durban say there needs to be more action from government to protect the public from further flooding
Critics say apartheid-era legislation has made thousands of books inaccessible to blind people, affecting their education and job prospects
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has left a sour taste for South Africa’s citrus farmers, who are facing millions of dollars in losses over sanctions that have closed off the Russian market. South Africa is the world’s second largest citrus exporter and farmers are scrambling to find other markets before the fruit spoils. For VOA, Linda Givetash reports from Groblersdal, South Africa.
Tourism operators are seeing early signs of recovery while South Africa’s unemployment rate tops 35%
The World Bank finds South Africans suffer the greatest inequality
Diagnosis and treatment for TB dropped 20% during the pandemic
With COVID numbers reducing, South Africa’s health experts are scrambling to ramp up HIV programs. Linda Givetash reports from Johannesburg, Camera: Zaheer Cassim
Thando Makhubu, 30, opened the Soweto Creamery using $46 from an unemployment grant
The variant was found to be 25% less virulent than delta, but similar to the first wave, the study says . Linda Givetash reports from Johannesburg.
From the peak of over 1 million vaccines administered in one week in August, numbers have plummeted to under 150,000 last week.
Government, with help of nonprofits, is offering vaccines to country’s estimated 2 million undocumented
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