Covering all Southern African stories is The African Exponent's Busisiwe. She bases in Pretoria to deliver all significant stories that matter right onto your computer. Storytelling defines her life.
You must have seen the viral little orange seller identified as Ayomide with an amtazing voice who sang melodiously on the street while hawking? His story has started to change. Favour has found him after the video of him singing at a junction while hawking oranges went viral last week.
Some of the stories that come from Zimbabwe do read like a movie script. Except that this is real life, and real people are being affected. And yet, despite overwhelming evidence of wrongdoing with the country's finances from the politicians, impunity reigns supreme. Some few years back, Zimbabwe
Softlogic Group, one of Sri Lanka's largest conglomerates, is eyeing Africa for expansion. The group, which deals in ICT, healthcare, retail, financial services, automobile, and leisure, rose in revenue by 14 percent to Rs.75.1 billion in the latest financial year against Rs.66 billion in 2017/
Senegal’s hopes of winning the African Cup of Nations will have to wait until subsequent occasions after they lost 0 – 1 to a determined Algerian side on Friday night. Carrying the hopes of over 15.9 million people on his shoulders, UEFA Champions League winner, Sadio Mane, and his
Something is not right in Sudan, and it is high time we started asking the right questions. Who is truly in charge? Who calls the shorts and who is in charge of Sudan? We must come to terms with the fact that the age of Neo-colonialism is upon us and
The country has doubled its fish stocks since the launch of the Kenya Coast Services Guards six months ago, reports show. According to records in Liwatoni, Mombasa County, the stock has increased by 155,000 tonnes after the KCGS and international security teams stopped illegal fishing vessels from operating in
Nigerian-born British boxer, Anthony Joshua, on Saturday, visited popular Lagos slum, Makoko. This is his first time of visiting the country. AJ, as he is popularly called visited the Slum2School initiative located in Makoko, where he spent time with the children. From videos shared on the verified Instagram page of
The social media ban in Chad that has lasted for 16 months is soon to be lifted. Speaking at a conference today, President Idriss Deby has announced that the ban which has been in place since 28th March 2018 will be lifted. Previously, lawyers in Chad had presented an application
Just a month ago we carried a report on the once bustling scheme which was being run in Ladysmith, South Africa. The popular ponzi scheme, dubbed Bitcoin Wallet, which hoodwinked desperate investors to believe they could make a tenfold return on money invested has reportedly run out of cash. Investors
Speculation about a failed trip to China is rife in Kenya after President Uhuru Kenyatta disappeared for ten days. A government spokeswoman sought to reassure the public: Mr Kenyatta had been in his office “meditating”. After an impressive run of a good relationship with China, scooping up at least $9.
How will you cope if you had no access to the Internet for about 5 days? Well, that is what Ethiopians just passed through. In what appears to new countermeasure tactics by African governments, the Internet was shut down in Ethiopia after the failed coup attempt on Saturday, June 22.
A former Central Bank of Nigeria Boss turned Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, revealed shocking details regarding the state of Africa's Iargest economy. He submitted that Nigeria was on the verge of bankruptcy, and urgently needs to curb its subsidy policy on petroleum products and electricity.
Three key things have happened in recent history in Kenya pertaining to the Rights of Homosexuals. Firstly, President Kenyatta, in a press conference held with Barack Obama in 2015 stated that “The issue of gay rights is really a non-issue” in Kenya, and that “There are some things we must
Can a simple experiment involving dropping off wallets at public places determine honesty? According to the Global Honesty Index, it can. To determine global honesty, an experiment was carried out across 355 cities in 40 countries of the world. Kenya and Morocco were among the countries studied and they both
It has arguably been stated by many scholars that in the last decade, people have become less altruistic and more greedy. Some have gone further to argue that individualism has destroyed the idea of good samaritans and that those who purport to be good samaritans purely do it for money
What would you do if you woke up one morning to find out that your account balance has increased? You were not expecting any credit transaction and your bank statement doesn’t show any detail of such! But as at the previous night, your balance was zero, and now it
