Tag: South Africa
women’s football hopes for a spotlight after the success of the “Banyana Banyana” at CAN
The South African football team won its first women’s CAN 2-1 on Saturday. The “Banyana Banyana” – the nickname given to South Africans, which means “girls” in Zulu – were…
South Africa tries to put a difficult energy transition on track
In South Africa, power cuts are expected to continue at least until this weekend, as aging power plants can no longer meet overall demand in the middle of the southern…
That substance was found in the blood of 21 young people who lost their lives in a nightclub in South Africa!
The investigation continues into the incident in which 21 young people mysteriously lost their lives in a nightclub in East London, South Africa. In a statement made by Doctor Litha…
gigantic concert in tribute to Johnny Clegg
Three years after the death of the “White Zulu”, a concert was given in tribute to Johnny Clegg on Sunday July 17 in Johannesburg. His music, committed against discrimination, marked…
One land, one author: in South Africa with Sindiwe Magona
Born in 1943 in South Africa, having grown up in Gugulethu, a township near Cape Town, Sindiwe Magona is the author of an autobiography, poet, playwright, novelist, she writes in…
South Africa at the World Cup, no half for Tunisia
The South African team has validated its ticket for the semi-finals of the Women’s African Cup of Nations (CAN 2022) as well as for the next World Cup, this July…
Avignon Festival: “Via Injabulo”, the Pantsula dance as a hymn to life
The South African company Via Kathlehong, named after the eponymous township located southeast of Johannesburg, has two choreographers, a Portuguese and a Franco-Senegalese, to carry the Pantsula culture from the…
deadly shootings in Soweto and Pietermaritzburg
In South Africa, two shootings took place in the night from Saturday to Sunday, in a bar in Soweto, near Johannesburg, and in a bar in Pietermaritzburg, in the east…
“The promise” of Damon Galgut, or the discomfiture of white South Africa
Booker Prize 2021 for his latest novel, South African Damon Galgut delivers with The promise a family saga that deals with the decline of white South Africa. The latest novel…
Australopithecus “Madame Ples” is finally a contemporary of Lucy
Lucy, the Australopithecus fossil that helped locate the cradle of humanity in East Africa, had a cousin living in southern Africa. An analysis published Monday, June 27 in an American…