The power of stokvels: From saving circles to investment powerhousesHow a centuries-old African tradition is evolving into a sophisticated financial force and what it means for the future of community ...

As electricity tariffs continue to rise, squeezing household and small business budgets, a new solar company has entered the market with stokvel and crowdfunding models aimed at making renewable ...

The wife of slain South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Chris Hani, Limpho Hani, says she and her family walked out of the wreath-laying ceremony for her husband after the City of Ekurhuleni ...

Ambitious plans are underway to build a high-speed rail network across Africa, connecting countries, regions and creating a transcontinental beltway that can transport people at up to 320 kilometers ...

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In the mid-1990s the UN built an airstrip in Ngara, in the far west of Tanzania, to supply refugee camps near the border with Burundi. Three decades later it has a different use. Over the past year ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The new U.S. ambassador to South Africa has been summoned to explain his criticism, the country's foreign minister said Wednesday, as a diplomatic rift continues over foreign ...

The global economy is under a cloud of uncertainty. Trade disruptions, wars, aid retrenchment, and geopolitical realignment have forced governments and investors to reassess risk. Africa is often ...

Black women remain the unsung architects of the global Black middle class, turning collective drops into an ocean of opportunity that no bank could ever provide. In honor of International Women’s Day, ...

Bernard Monnaapula, my guide at Gomoti Plains, and I have been trailing a male leopard across the Okavango Delta for more than an hour when we realize it has led us to an unexpected prize: African ...