Originally home to the indigenous San peoples, they were displaced by migrating Tswana in the 17th century. In 1885, under the urging of Cecil Rhodes, the region became the Bechuanaland ... Read More

From an ancient African civilisation which developed writing and agriculture, Egypt underwent several periods of foreign domination: starting with Alexander the Great in 330 BCE, cycling through the Ptolemaic Greeks, ... Read More

Now recognized as the Cradle of Humankind, southern Africa has been the home of many African societies. Although overshadowed by the era of Apartheid, this region has a rich and ... Read More

10 Years 100 Artists: Art in a Democratic South Africa is a showcase of what South African art looks like after a decade of democracy, the end of the cultural ... Read More

Each year Literary Review, a London-based magazine, awards novelists a prize they really don't want to win -- the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, the aim of which is "to ... Read More

One of South Africa's foremost architects, Revel Fox, has died at the age of 79 at his home in Cape Town. Recent projects of Revel Fox & Partners Architects and ... Read More

Two journals containing the drafts of letters Nelson Mandela wrote while in prison between 1969 and 1971 have been returned to him reports the Sunday Times. Verne Harris of the ... Read More

Rats are being used to detect landmines in Mozambique where thousands of landmines still remain a decade after the end of the civil war, reports News 24.com. Apparently rats are ... Read More

In a judgement that has predictably angered conservative groups, the South African Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that the definition of marriage should be changed from being between a ... Read More