30 April – 6 MayZambian president Kenneth David Kaunda meets with South African president PW Botha in Botswana, Pope John Paul II begins his tour of Africa, Emperor Haile Selassie ... Read More

South Africans enjoy the first of two public holidays less than a week apart today – in celebration of the first multi-racial democratic elections held on 27th April 1994, Freedom ... Read More

A report issued by Save the Children entitled Forgotten Casualties of War: Girls in Armed Conflict contains some damning facts about girls being compelled to be part of armed forces, ... Read More

23 – 29 April Oliver Tambo, South African political leader, co-founder of the ANC's Youth League, and president of the ANC from 1980 to 1991 dies; Kwame Nkrumah, nationalist leader and ... Read More

A South African company, Roundabout Outdoor, has come up with an ingenious design that will aid the campaign to get clean water supplies in rural areas. Instead of using a ... Read More

16 – 22 AprilHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery, Zimbabwe proclaimed an independent republic, British troops are called out to quell Zulu aggression in Natal, and the first reports ... Read More

The outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever (a 'cousin' of the more infamous Ebola virus) in Angola continues to claim lives. Zoe Young, working with Medecins Sans Frontieres, is writing a ... Read More

The United National Environment Programme has awarded this year's African

The assassination on 10 April 1993 of Chris Hani, the charismatic leader of the South African Communist Party, in Dawn Park Johannesburg was pivotal in the ending of Apartheid. Why ... Read More

9 – 15 AprilSouth African president Hendrik Verwoerd is wounded in an attempted assassination at the Rand Easter Show, Chris Hani is assassinated in South Africa, Desmond Tutu is selected ... Read More

A campaign in Uganda to stop mosquito nets being cut up to make wedding dresses seems to be working, reports BBC News. The nets, which are available cheapily as they ... Read More

Just the words "haemorrhagic fever" and "Ebola" makes most people come out in a cold sweat, never mind living in an area where there is an outbreak. In the latest ... Read More

2 – 8 AprilGerman forces are defeated by Herero tribesmen near Okaharui, Egyptologist Lord Carnarvon dies from an insect bite in Egypt, UN anti-Apartheid sanctions against South Africa are opposed ... Read More