South Africa has over 700,000 registered small businesses. In the townships these include hair salons, taverns, car repair shops, laundromats and others sometimes operating out of people’s homes.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has visited the sites of devastating floods that have left at least 78 people dead in the southeast of the country.

At least 49 people have died in heavy flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province after an extreme cold front brought torrential rain and blanketed snow in parts of the country, officials ...

Motoring Volkswagen’s new compact SUV gears up for Africa, with a new name you can vote for Backed by a R4b investment, Volkswagen is preparing to launch its locally built Tera SUV under a new ...

Wounded SAPS officer’s plea highlights trauma, dangers of policing in SA A stabbed officer’s message has reignited debate over the dangers and emotional toll faced by South Africa’s police ...

This open call offers use of the Goethe-Institut Gallery and other negotiated spaces within the Institut, marketing, PR and social media support. We encourage proposals which take a dynamic approach ...

Contact For information on supporting the Africa Programme, please contact Rebecca Dugard. Funding The Africa programme funds its activities through a combination of project grants from international ...

Research Africa, a Nigerian books publishing initiative, has announced that its first digitised academic journal has been indexed on Google Scholar. The development was made known in a press ...

The Goethe-Institut Johannesburg, the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS), and the South African Podcasters Guild (SAPG) announced an open call 'Sound Waves'. Applications were open from 29 April ...