South Africa: Cape Mental Health Celebrates 30 Years of Its Colourful Kite Festival
[GroundUp] The organisations hosts the annual event to raise funds so it can continue offering mental health services to thousands of people
South Africa: Loaded for Bear – Shameful Hat-Trick – Three SA World Heritage Sites Are Threatened By Sewage
[Daily Maverick] South Africa has failed in its obligations as a signatory of the Unesco Convention to protect its World Heritage Sites.
South Africa: Mphela for 2024 Castle Lager Braai Festival
[The Herald] South African dancing sensation, Kamo Mphela, will perform at this year’s Castle Lager Braai Festival scheduled for Old Hararians Sports Club on Saturday.
South Africa: Reports of the Impending Death of Afrikaans Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
[Daily Maverick] Afrikaans is a uniquely southern African language. At least six million people in South Africa and Namibia speak Afrikaans, and there are probably many more of us (coloured people) than there are white people who speak the language.
South Africa: Petition Wants to Block Chris Brown’s South African Tour
[allAfrica] South African women’s rights campaigners have launched a petition calling for controversial U.S. award-winning singer Chris Brown to be barred from performing in December.
South Africa: South Africa’s 2wo Bunnies to Headline Vault Lounge’s 3rd Anniversary
[Nile Post] Vault Lounge, known for its high energy theme parties, will be celebrating three years on the Ugandan entertainment scene this Saturday.
Africa: Destruction of Libraries and Archives Is a Form of Book-Burning and Erasing History and Memory
[Daily Maverick] Libraries are not merely places that keep books by George Eliot, Charles Dickens or Joseph Conrad: they are repositories of written records of South African society over centuries – and over the past three decades.
Africa: Wretched of the Earth Has Been Translated Into South Africa’s Zulu Language – Why Frantz Fanon’s Revolutionary Book Still Matters
[The Conversation Africa] Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is …
South Africa: TV Producer Appears in Court On Charges of Tax Fraud
[SAnews.gov.za] Well-known television producer and businessman, Dumakude Mayivuke Ndlovu, has appeared in the Palm Ridge Specialised Commercial Crime Court, together with two others, on charges of tax fraud.
South Africa: Ancient Human DNA From a South African Rock Shelter Sheds Light On 10,000 Years of History
[The Conversation Africa] Oakhurst rock shelter is an archaeological site near the town of George on the southern coast of South Africa. It is set into a sandstone cliff above a stream in a valley forested by towering old yellowwood trees.