Tag: South Africa
In the midst of an energy crisis, South Africa is delaying its exit from coal
South Africa recommends delaying the decommissioning of its coal-fired power plants. The country has been facing a severe electricity crisis for months, but has pledged to abandon fossil emissions. Despite…
30 years after his assassination, the legend of Chris Hani, “giant of integrity and intelligence”
Thirty years ago, Chris Hani, charismatic leader of the ANC and leader of the South African Communist Party, fell under the bullets of an assassin from the white far right.…
End of the run for South African serial rapist Thabo Bester and his girlfriend
While he was given for dead, Thabo Bester was arrested in Tanzania on Friday evening April 7 while he was probably heading for Kenya, with his partner and accomplice, the…
The amapiano, this South African electronic music conquering the world
It is a musical style which is spreading all over the planet and which comes to us from South Africa: the amapiano. This electronic musical genre is partly responsible for…
“We are enough”, the exhibition of contemporary African art that awakens consciences
We are enough (“We are enough”), at the 193 Galerie and the Galerie Carole Kvasnevski in Paris, is a collective exhibition of contemporary African art. Eleven artists, Senegalese, Ivorians, South…
In South Africa, a Minister of Electricity to put an end to load shedding
After two months of waiting, and a few hours late, President Cyril Ramaphosa presented his new government during a televised address. A Minister of Electricity, an unprecedented position in South…
former Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius soon to be released?
South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, who killed his girlfriend a decade ago, will find out within a month whether he can be granted parole, his lawyer said on Thursday.…
South Africa joins the gray list, Morocco leaves it
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which fights against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, placed South Africa as well as Nigeria on its gray list this week. Morocco…
defenders of Ukraine lonely in the face of the neutrality displayed by their country
In South Africa, defenders of the Ukrainian cause are struggling to mobilize in the face of the neutrality displayed by their government in the face of the war launched by…
The South African government takes over half of the debt of the electricity company Eskom
In South Africa, the Minister of Finance presented his budget for 2023 to parliamentarians gathered in Cape Town on Wednesday. And faced with an unprecedented electricity crisis, the South African…