Three is family: South African X Factor UK entrant Jeanette Akua was dropped in the X Factor Bootcamp stage but given another chance at stardom by judge Gary Barlow, who united her with two other rejected contestants to form a formidable girl group.
Conservationists are implementing unmanned airplane programmes that will see drones used to track rhino and poacher movements in a bid to stop poaching
Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) foundation Bunengi announced a partnership with CRDF Global on Friday aimed at increasing opportunities for African women to study and pursue careers in the important STEM sectors
The Red October group plans to protest outside South Africa House, Trafalgar Square against the ‘oppression and murder of white people’ in South Africa and for the protection of their ethnic minority rights.
South African clients who intend to submit UK visa applications towards the end of the year, or early in 2014, should take note of the fact that the TB screening offices in South Africa will be closed during December 2013
Too much talk and too little reform, President Jacob Zuma said at the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
Thanks to a quick-thinking South African teenager, his family and a wounded stranger managed to escape the Nairobi terror attack with their lives.
‘The White Widow’ allegedly behind the Kenya mall attacks has racked up thousands of rands in debt while living in Johannesburg using a false South African passport.
World-renowned deafblind priest Fr Axelrod bears a powerful and liberating message of coming to know yourself by overcoming personal challenges. He is the first deafblind person to receive the OBE
Whether you are reading this in Putney, Perth or Port Elizabeth, it’s your election – here’s why…
Kurt Won has been nominated for Rising Star of the Year in the South African Chamber of Commerce Business Awards 2013. Read his profile and vote for him here.
Andrew Feinstein will be discussing the current state of South Africa and the ANC – the state of the party, internal dynamics and power struggles and what he thinks the next few years will hold. Andrew will also be informing us of the progress of the Arms Deal Commission of Enquiry.
According to RMB’s John Cairns “The Rand pullback reflects the global pattern: the market thinking is that the reaction to the Fed decision was overdone. After all, tapering has just been postponed”
Outspoken and engaging Labour Party politician Peter Hain, who was raised in Pretoria, said despite the massive challenges South Africa faces, he remains optimistic about the country’s future – and expats can play a role in South Africa’s success.
Iconic London pub Shepherd’s Bush Walkabout is set to call last drinks for the final time on 6 October, after the pub’s operator Intertain confirmed the property had been sold for an undisclosed sum.
The South African man killed in the Nairobi Westgate mall terrorist attack has been named as ‘gentle giant’ James Thomas.
Militant group al-Shabaab denies reports that Kenya terror suspect with forged South African passport is dead.
The South African annual crime statistics report shows that murder levels increased in the last year by 0.6%, following a 27.2% decrease over the previous nine years. Although levels of rape have dipped, the statistics came under fire from critics who say not enough has changed.
The We Love Mandela exhibition at South Africa House will showcase a significant collection of artworks in the image of, and inspired by Nelson Mandela, including paintings, sculpture, photography, cartoons, beadwork, prints. Entry is free to the public.
The scrapping of the migrant labour system in South Africa is the subject of ongoing discussion between the government and the mining companies, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu told mine investors in London last week.
Mpumalanga and the Northern Cape, the only South African provinces that do not have a university, will finally get higher education institutions.
As the 2014 elections draw nearer, the National Assembly has approved the Electoral Amendment Bill, despite protests from the DA.
South Africa rolls out two new anti-poaching initiatives- injecting rhino horns with poison and selling endangered white rhinos to private reserves – in an effort to save the species.
With more than 600 rhinos already slaughtered this year, it is estimated that at least 300 more rhinos will be poached in South Africa by the end of 2013.
At least 59 civilians including a South African have been killed and many others wounded after terrorists stormed The Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital.