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Saving the rhino with U.S. military surveillance drones
South African farmer plans to put 30 drones in the air to help combat poachers A rhino farmer in South Africa is planning to use surveillance drones designed for the US military to combat poachers who are driving the animals towards extinction. Clive Vivier, cofounder of the Zululand rhino reserve in…
iTunes launches in South Africa
Apple expanded its ultra-successful online store iTunes to South Africa on Tuesday, giving music fans access to a library of local and international hits. In a statement Apple said customers would be able to choose from over 20 million songs available to purchase and download. Announcing the shop’s roll-out across…
South Africa marks World AIDS Day with record ribbon
South Africa, home to the world’s largest HIV caseload, on Saturday unveiled a 1.5 kilometre AIDS ribbon in Johannesburg, with activists and officials pledging to curb the epidemic. Created from over 6,000 red T-shirts pinned together, the ribbon was rolled out at Constitution Hill, which houses the country’s Constitutional Court,…
Anglicans ordain Africa’s first woman bishop
JOHANNESBURG — The Anglican Church of Southern Africa has ordained the first woman bishop on the African continent, officials said Monday, in a historic move that comes as the Church of England in London prepares to vote on whether to allow female bishops. The consecration of Ellinah Wamukoya, originally from…
Man made stone tools thousands of years earlier than previously thought
Paleontologists said Wednesday they have found small blades in a South African cave proving that Man was an advanced thinker making stone tools 71,000 years ago — millennia earlier than thought. The find suggests early humans from Africa had a capacity for complex thought and weapons production that gave them…
Anthrax outbreak kills 30 hippos in South Africa
An outbreak of anthrax has killed at least 30 hippopotamus in South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park wildlife reserve, the country’s parks authority said on Tuesday. Officials believe the deaths are linked to a flare-up of the highly infectious disease in the giant park which has killed 45 roan antelope…
Workers end strike at South Africa coal mine
Miners have ended a six-week strike and returned to work at the Mooiplaats coal mine in northeastern South Africa after the company agreed to a 26 percent pay increase, Coal of Africa said Friday. The legal strike had begun on September 25 and staff returned to work at the colliery…
Census: Black South African household incomes surge but lag behind whites
Incomes of black South African households have surged 169 percent in a decade, but whites still take home six times more money 18 years into all-race democracy, a national census showed Tuesday. The country’s third democratic survey Census 2011 highlighted apartheid-era inequalities despite blacks making up nearly 80 percent of…
South African mine violence investigation reopens
An inquiry into 46 deaths during a violent mine strike in South Africa reopened Monday after it was postponed for victims’ families to travel and hear how their loved ones died. Police lawyers told the commission that officers fired live ammunition at strikers at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana…
South Africa’s children still face apartheid-like inequality
CAPE TOWN — South Africa’s children still face apartheid-like inequalities with a black child 18 times more likely to grow up poor than his or her white counterpart, a report said Wednesday. The 2012 “South African Child Gauge,” which provides an annual snapshot of the state of children in Africa’s…
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