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  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
    South Africa’s indigenous rooibos tea farmers seek a fairer deal

    Khoi and San people stand to benefit from the drink’s growing global popularity

  • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    South Africa counts the cost of its worst unrest since apartheid

    Hopes of economic renaissance dashed after warehouses and factories targeted for looting

  • Friday, 16 July, 2021
    South Africa
    Ramaphosa says unrest is ‘co-ordinated, well-planned attack’ on democracy

    South African army moves in to restore order as president tells nation looting is a ‘smokescreen’ for sabotage

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    ‘We can’t sit back’: South Africans reel from riots

    Jailing of former president ignites slow-burning tensions over unemployment and long lockdowns

  • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
    South Africa
    South Africa struggles to contain worst unrest in decades

    Domestic spy agency investigates whether former agents loyal to ex-president orchestrated turmoil

  • Monday, 12 July, 2021
    South Africa
    Unrest spreads in South Africa after Zuma is jailed

    Army deployed on streets as tensions rise over 15-month prison term for former president

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    African National Congress
    Shadow of jailed Zuma hangs over ‘dysfunctional’ ANC

    Ramaphosa faces daunting task to clean up party riven by factions and cronyism

  • Wednesday, 7 July, 2021
    Jacob Zuma
    Jacob Zuma begins jail term for contempt of court

    South Africa’s ex-president complies with judgment over his defiance of corruption inquiry

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    Jacob Zuma
    South African police hold back on Zuma arrest

    Legal letter fuels concerns that governing ANC does not want former president sent to jail

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  • Sunday, 4 July, 2021
    South Africa
    Zuma launches legal challenges to avoid imprisonment

    South Africa’s former president says he is too frail to survive jail term for missing corruption inquiry

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Kudakwashe Tagwirei
    The offshore hive of Zimbabwe’s ‘Queen Bee’

    Unravelling a US-sanctioned magnate’s links to a complex mining and trading empire

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Rugby
    South Africa looks to Lions rugby tour to avert financial crisis

    British and Irish team will play eight-game series in empty stadiums because of virus

  • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
    Southern Africa
    Dozens believed killed in crackdown in Africa’s last absolute monarchy

    Army deployed against pro-democracy protesters as Eswatini is swept by demonstrations

  • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
    News in-depthSouth Africa
    How South Africa’s courts stood up to Jacob Zuma

    Decision to sentence former president to jail time confirms constitutional court’s status as bulwark of democracy

  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    South Africa
    South Africa’s top court orders Jacob Zuma to go to jail

    Civil society activists hail sentencing of former president over failure to attend inquiry into corruption

  • Sunday, 27 June, 2021
    South Africa
    Central bank head confident South Africa can weather global interest rate rises

    Continent’s most industrialised country is less vulnerable now than last year, says Lesetja Kganyago

  • Thursday, 24 June, 2021
    South Africa
    South Africa rejects power ships on environmental grounds

    Ministry’s move scuppers attempt to relieve rolling electricity blackouts

  • Wednesday, 23 June, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Africa’s third wave: ‘What haunts me a lot is the Indian scenario’

    Cases surge across the continent as vaccine rollout moves slowly

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    Diamonds and gemstones
    Botswana discovers third-largest diamond just as market recovers

    US jewellery sales rebound as the country’s economy gets back on track after Covid-19

  • Thursday, 17 June, 2021
    Zambia
    Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president, dies aged 97

    Leader governed with iron fist for decades but became example to region’s strongmen by restoring democracy

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Airlines
    South Africa to sell its majority stake in collapsed flag carrier

    Local investors to take a 51% holding in state-owned SAA after decade of decline

  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    South Africa
    South Africa eases path for companies to generate power

    President Cyril Ramaphosa says country needs to liberalise energy supplies to avert ‘massive risk’ of blackouts

  • Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
    Lesotho
    German solar company pursues assets of tiny kingdom of Lesotho

    Frazer Solar takes action after southern African country reneges on contract to build power station

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Covid-19 vaccines burnt as shelf-life complicates global rollout

    Dose expiry dates and delayed international deliveries mean some jabs arrive too late to be used

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    Special ReportInvesting in African Infrastructure
    Africa races to establish better high-speed connections

    African countries are some of the fastest-growing internet markets, but lack the necessary digital infrastructure

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