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Humble South African Golfer Comes Out of Nowhere to Win British Open on Mandela’s Bday

South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen, who had missed the cut in all his three previous Opens and was a 250-1 outsider before the tournament started,...
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Solar Powered Traffic Lights Move Cars in South Africa

Solar powered traffic lights are set to become an increasingly common phenomenon in South Africa as the National Energy Efficiency Agency (NEEA)...
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South African Prisoners Embrace Yoga

A new program of yoga lessons is helping prisoners at Gruoenpunt Maximum Security prison in South Africa to discover ways to stay calm...
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South Africans Unite for Immigrants Suffering Violence

Waves of xenophobic violence against immigrants this week has led to an overwhelming positive response by the South African public, through an outpouring of...

‘Black Billy Elliot’ Pirouettes Past South African Prejudices

His chosen vocation ridiculed by peers and elders alike, a South African teenager remains unwavering in his ambition to become a world-class ballet dancer....

South African Corporations Thinking Green

South African banking giant ABN AMRO says climate change is a big factor in choosing who to do business with in the future. "If...
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Poem From South Africa: Time Turns

Editor's Note- Today seems like a perfect day for publishing poems, so we're choosing this day in April to celebrate "Poetry Month" in America....

Cape Verde Becomes the First African Country in 50 Years to Eradicate Malaria

Becoming the first sub-Saharan African country to eliminate Malaria in half a century, Cape Verde has gone three years without a single case of...

Guy Cycles Across Africa Hoping to be Accepted at Prestigious University in Egypt–Gets Full Scholarship

Our moms and dads used to tell us about their mile-long walk to school, which they did in the rain and the snow, and...

Africa NGO Purchases World’s Largest Captive Rhino Population to Rewild 2,000 Across the Continent

A giant conservation NGO has purchased the largest privately-owned rhino herd on earth to rewild them in secret locations over the next 10 years. More...

‘World’s Loneliest Lion’ Returns to Africa After Years Alone in Zoo–WATCH His First Steps

The 'world's loneliest lion' has returned to his natural habitat after he was abandoned in a private zoo in Armenia for five years. 15-year-old lion...

New Species of Owl Discovered on Tiny Island off African Coast – And it was Named After ‘Unflinching’ Park Ranger

A new species of owl has joined the tree of life after having been documented as unique this year—and its Latin name was christened...

Scientists Unearth Africa’s Oldest Known Dinosaur, Filling a Critical Gap in the Fossil Record

Paleontologists have discovered the oldest dinosaur ever found in Africa, and one of the earliest to ever evolve. Stories are difficult to understand without starting...

How Fog Nets Are Making Water Abundant in Arid Africa – And May Be Useful in California

During the Moroccan desert summertime drought, fog nets are being used to provide drinking water to hundreds of thousands of people in remote mountain...

A New Species of Human Ancestor was Just Named Homo Bodoensis – A Direct Line from Africa to Modern Man

An international team of researchers has announced the naming of a new species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. This species lived in Africa during...

Walking Storyteller Continues Historic 24,000-Mile Trek Retracing Passage of Human Ancestors Out of Africa

The Out of Eden Walk, a National Geographic-sponsored retracing of our ancestor's slow-motion exodus from Africa, through time and countless footsteps, is finally resuming...

Couple Gives $100 Million to Conservation of 57,000 Square Miles of African Protected Areas

A South Africa-based nonprofit conservation group that manages 19 protected areas on the continent has secured a donation of $100,000,000. The grant from the Rob...

Siri and Alexa Don’t Support African Languages But This Nonprofit Swooped in to Offer 60 New Voices – Including Welsh

Not Apple's Siri, Google Home, Amazon's Alexa, or any other speech platform can hear or respond to a single African language, but as speech...

In World First, Key African Species Will be Relocated to Another Continent After it Became Extinct in India

A team of experts from South Africa and Namibia are helping to relocate a population of cheetahs to India in an ambitious restoration program...

Africans Are Being Empowered to Write and Edit Wikipedia Articles About Their Own Countries and Culture

As the 10th most-visited website on Earth, and the largest repository of human knowledge there is, school curriculums and even entire worldviews can be...