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Health Minister Zweli Mkhize wants to secure 40 million vaccines - but what has convinced Mbuyiseni Ndlozi into thinking we only need one?
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
A Queer Visual Activist
South African photographer and self-identified visual activist Zanele Muholi celebrates the black queer experience in South Africa by way of portraits (and self-portraits) that capture the beauty, creativity and intimacy of a community facing tremendous persecution and abuse.
Her first major exhibition in the UK — originally scheduled to open in April, then in November, is once again being delayed due to the second UK lockdown in light of the covid-19 pandemic. Sarah Allen, the Assistant Curator of International Art, Tate Modern, is still hopeful about the eventual opening of the highly-anticipated exhibition, \"It (Muholi's work) needs to be seen and it will be seen. We very much hope to reopen in December along with government guidance. A colleague had this really lovely expression to me yesterday, that this is a 'sleeping beauty of an exhibition', and it's just going to wait for that moment to wake up and to reinvigorate the public, and I have no doubt that people will be ready and people will hopefully want to come and see and be inspired by this work.\"
Black and Queer in South Africa's Apartheid
Born in 1972 and raised in Umlazi, a township on South Africa’s eastern coast, Muholi’s childhood was marked by the racial brutality of Apartheid — a white supremacist regime that systematically oppressed non-white people in the country and whose systems still linger today. Muholi - on a mission to commemorate the battles and triumphs of her community, has spent the previous two decades creating and tracing a visual history of South Africa’s LGBTQIA+ population.
The collection of images to be displayed at the Tate Modern art gallery showcase same-sex intimacy as well as trauma and seek to empower the queer community — black lesbians, black gay men, black transgender people and all non-binary people alike.
#BlackQueerLivesMatter
Allen shares her impression of the visual impact of Muholi’s visual art pieces, \"Definitely that sense of gaze is so important. In these photographs here 'Faces and Phases' (collection), but also in the adjoining room 'Somnyama Ngonyama' (collection of self-portraits) — so it goes back to what we were talking about there about power dynamics and about the camera and the history of photography: who holds the power? In these images, the participants dare the camera down and they engage the viewer in this amazing dialogue.\" The 260 artistic images on display which critique centuries of anti-Black sentiment, oppression and erasure are in line with the recent global racial injustice movement as they cry, \"Black Queer Lives Matter.\"
The Cheetahs have not ruled out taking legal action against SA Rugby after being excluded from next season's expanded PRO16 tournament.
A year after becoming the first black African woman to scale the world’s highest mountain, Saray Khumalo seems to have set a Guinness World Record for the most money raised during an eight-hour stationary cycling fundraiser, a report by VOA said. The award-winning mountaineer and entrepreneur raised nearly $44,000 after eight hours of spinning to support an...
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Africa Check said that the claim that commercial farmers had declined from 120 000 to 38 000 since 1994 is based on erroneous data.
[Balancing Act] London -- After rumbling sounds for many years, continental pay TV operator MultiChoice finds itself in the sights of legislators and broadcasters in Sub-Saharan Africa's two biggest markets, Nigeria and South Africa. Russell Southwood looks at what's being proposed.
The kick-off time for Mamelodi Sundowns' CAF Champions League second leg match against Jwaneng Galaxy on Tuesday, 5 December has been changed.
President Cyril Ramaphosa says signs of a resurgence in Covid-19 cases in the Eastern Cape should serve as a warning to citizens to remain vigilant.
The DA unanimously agreed to ensure that all of SA's 11 official languages are made available at universities and schools.
BySam Roberts E.S. Reddy, an Indian-born acolyte of Gandhi who spearheaded efforts at the United Nations to end apartheid in South Africa, died on Sunday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 96. His death was announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, who hailed Mr. […]
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The Springbok management team is looking for suitable opposition to help prepare the world champions for their British & Irish Lions series.
Faf du Plessis is among 21 overseas players to agree to take part in the PSL playoffs which start this weekend in Karachi.
Award-winning South African singer and actress Simphiwe Dana has officially announced she is gay through a series of Twitter posts last week.
Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola named Malawi specifically in pointing out that the nation is a signatory of the SADC extradition protocol, among others.
BY VANESSA GONYE ZIMBABWE has reportedly lost between 30 and 34 tonnes of gold which was smuggled to South Africa last year in a new wave of illicit financial flows (IFFs) that are affecting the country, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has said. In a recent report on IFFs, Zimcodd said the bulk of capital flight currently affecting Zimbabwe was happening in the gold mining sector. The revelations also come at a time suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya is in custody following her arrest last week at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on charges of attempting to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai. Zimcodd said a recent study by the African Forum and Network on Debt and Development estimated that between the period of 2009 and 2013, Zimbabwe also lost US$2,83 billion through IFFs, which translates to an annual average of US$570,75 million. It said this was the number one cause for the country’s loss of money, which has led to underdevelopment. “Of the cumulative outflows, 97,88% of US$6 billion IFFs were in the mining sector. In 2019, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development (Mthuli Ncube) is quoted to have said that Zimbabwe may have lost between 30 tonnes and 34 tonnes of gold to smuggling in the neighbouring South Africa,” Zimcodd said. “During this week, both mainstream and social media platforms were awash with stories of the arrest of Rushwaya at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport while trying to smuggle 6kg of gold to Dubai in contravention of section 182 of the Customs and Excise Act, which sets out penalties for any person found smuggling goods into or outside the country. “The attempt by Rushwaya to smuggle gold with an estimated worth of US$333 000 is only a microcosm of the macrocosm of the huge sums of gold and other precious minerals smuggled out of the country. If the figure is anything to go by, if sold officially, the amount from the gold would go a long way in covering the financial gap existing in the public service delivery sector.” The debt watchdog said government must now consider an upward review of the foreign currency retention threshold in the gold sector to motivate gold producers to sell their gold through the formal market in order to curb gold leakages. “Lack of political will and political interference in the operations of the anti-corruption institutions undermines the effectiveness of institutions and legislation responsible for combating illicit financial flows. There is need for the government to demonstrate political will to arrest and prosecute perpetrators and guarantee the independence of the responsible institutions,” Zimcodd said, adding that government should invest in information communication technologies to curb under declarations of minerals.
The justice system that has been a place of unfairness, against minority males for quite some time. This year we seen major attention given to multiple agencies around the world, thus creating long awaited talks and plans of change. However, there is another place of systematic inequality founded in the education system. A fact that […]
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Dawn Wing, a South African courier company, are partnering with What3words to accurately deliver parcels within 3 metres of your location.
The Department of Home Affairs said it had followed \"due process,\" adding that \"the affected foreign nationals have already been transferred to Lindela Repatriation Centre.
A Zambian man accused in the fraud and money laundering case along with self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary, is allegedly an undocumented immigrant.
Kenya’s tourism sector has been showing massive growth in the last decade. The tourism sector has risen to become the second-largest foreign exchange earner for the country despite recent terrorism threats and other incidents of insecurity. Also, the tourism and travel sector contributed 3.7% to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2016 and around...
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Ace Magashule is facing charges of corruption, money laundering and fraud for his alleged involvement in the R255 million asbestos debacle.