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South Africa are tasked with ending their Rugby World Cup pool campaign in fine style when they face Tonga later today.

A recent book, Queer Bodies in African Films, studies the growing LGBTIQ+ output from film-makers around the continent, from Morocco to South Africa. In the process it analyses what queerness is and means within the context of African countries. Its author, Gibson Ncube, is a lecturer and scholar who focuses…

South Africa tonight face Ireland in a hugely anticipated Rugby World Cup encounter.

After seven years of advocating for full membership, the African Union (AU) will join the Group of 20 “most important industrialised and developing economies”. It becomes the second regional bloc to join the group after the 27-member European Union (EU).

Fossilised urine from a small African mammal helps us understand past environments

South Africa 76-0 Romania: The Springboks thump the Oaks with a 12-try thrashing in Bordeaux

La vente des droits de télévision est la principale source de revenus pour les organisations de football dans le monde entier, mais elle revêt une importance particulière en Afrique. Pourtant, la Confédération africaine de football (Caf) ne cesse de faire la une des journaux pour avoir renvoyé ses diffuseurs partenaires.…

Africa’s largest meeting on the crisis finished last week amid arguments over ‘false solutions’ and unfulfilled promises. But will the lofty ideals presented translate into better lives for Africans?

The press in G20’s several Global South participants – including China, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, South Africa and Indonesia – largely gave a miss to G20 coverage on the front pages of their Sunday editions. 

India’s Narendra Modi welcomes AU as a ‘permanent member of the G20 family’

The Rugby World Cup pool stage is over after Fiji squeezed into the knockouts with a bonus-point defeat to Portugal.