Via Instagram, December 27, 2017, singer Solange revealed to fans that she’d been battling an autonomic disorder for some time. For the last 5 months, she explains being diagnosed and trying to learn more about the disease. In a lengthy Instagram paragraph, Solange explains how she won’t be attending an NYE performance in South Africa because […]
Miss South Africa Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters was named the winner of the 2017 Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
Priscillah Mabelane knew when she was a teenager in South Africa that she wanted to be a chartered accountant, a career path her father didn’t understand. She’s achieved her goal and then some, after being named South Africa BP’s first female CEO becoming the first woman to do so in South Africa’s oil industry. Mabelane […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Jazz musician Roy Ayers on Friday offered some rhythmic advice for youths in Johannesburg’s Soweto area: Get serious, be inspired, rap on, keep on and “eventually you’ll get it.” Ayers, who is in South Africa for a music festival, radiated enthusiasm while urging a couple of dozen people at an arts center […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa‘s parliament prepared to vote Tuesday on a motion of no confidence in embattled South African President Jacob Zuma that could force him to resign after months of growing anger over alleged corruption. Zuma has survived six previous no-confidence votes in parliament, but this is the first to be held by […]
The intersections of Black womanhood was once again under threat at a South African restaurant on Sunday. A video has gone viral of a White man threatening to attack a Black woman in front of her kids in a Texamo Spur restaurant. According to TimesLive, the incident started when the White man’s daughter came crying to […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A new vaccine against HIV, to be tested in a trial to be launched in South Africa Wednesday, could be “the final nail in the coffin” for the disease if it is successful, scientists say. The study, called HVTN 702, aims to enroll 5,400 sexually active men and women aged between 18 […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — An American pastor who has made anti-gay comments has been barred from entering South Africa, the government said Tuesday. Steven Anderson and members of the Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona will not be allowed to travel to South Africa because they allegedly promote hate speech and “social violence,” said Malusi […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Retired archbishop Desmond Tutu has defended the reconciliation policy that ended white minority rule in South Africa, saying the country has social and economic problems largely because of later mismanagement. Some South Africans have described what they call entrenched racism in recent social media posts, and there have been growing allegations that […]
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa has celebrated Nelson Mandela by crafting numerous statues and portraits of the country’s first black president. Now there’s a sculpture of the late leader’s signature shirt. A university in the city of Port Elizabeth last week unveiled a 10-foot-high (3-meter-high) sculpture inspired by the colorful shirts that Mandela, who died […]
The world’s first penis transplant has been performed by surgeons in South Africa, Bloomberg News reported. The 21-year-old recipient has made a full recovery and…
I’m Safe & sound. Here’s how it all happnd. http://t.co/GjUaByZV6w via @youtube — vuyo mvoko (@vuyo_mvoko) March 10, 2015 South African journalist Vuyo Mvoko was robbed…
