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.
The Food and Agriculture Organization estimates food waste across the globe to be 1.3 billion tones. Food currently lost in Africa could feed 300 million people. Ironically, thousands die on the continent due to hunger and malnutrition. Fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers account for the highest wastage rates of
It can be said that the United States of America is a bully when it comes to matters of foreign policy. The US president Donald Trump issued a declaration stating Jerusalem as the new capital of Israel, a move that was boldly and overwhelmingly denounced by many countries, including Tanzania.
In her line of defence, she has vehemently stressed that she did not have any knowledge that the drug she possessed was illegal in Egypt. Perhaps, ignorance of the law excuses no one after all. A British woman named Laura Plummer is serving a three-year jail sentence in Egypt for
On the 25th of August, the United States of America’s military led an operation in Somalia's Bariire region that resulted in the death of 10 civilians and at least one child on the 25th of August. It was a massacre whose taint on the U.S. forces’
When Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe resigned, the African Union Commission said he would be “remembered as a fearless pan-Africanist liberation fighter, and the father of the independent Zimbabwean nation”. Mugabe was a bold leader who openly defied colonial powers on high stages with little fear for repercussions but even then,
China, one of the world’s biggest emitters has unveiled world’s biggest mechanism to reduce carbon in the form of carbon market in a bid to avert climate change. Preceding the Paris Climate Summit in 2015, premier Xi Jinping announced his country’s plan to launch a carbon market
Social media users in South Africa are decrying Rhodes University’s authoritarian action which has left two students banned from the university and may never complete their studies. The two female students participated in an anti-rape protest at Rhodes University in Grahamstown in April 2016. This is according to SABC
God made this world for all of us to be happy and then share His glory in heaven. Therefore no religion has a right to make life difficult for others whatever their belief or dogma. We must write and discuss about violence openly so that we live in a peaceful
A prominent Liberian youth activist and writer Martin K. N. Kollie has been elected as the Deputy Chief of Secretariat of the African Youth Forum, which was organized by the PLO Lumumba Foundation under the auspices of the learned Kenyan Lawyer and Director of Kenya School of Law, Professor Patrick
RankLogoUniversityCountryCity1University of Cape TownSouth AfricaCape Town2University of the WitwatersrandSouth AfricaJohannesburg3Stellenbosch UniversitySouth AfricaStellenbosch4University of KwaZulu-NatalSouth AfricaDurban4Makerere UniversityUgandaKampala6American University in CairoEgyptCairo6Beni-Suef UniversityEgyptBeni Suef6University of JohannesburgSouth AfricaJohannesburg6University of PretoriaSouth AfricaPretoria6University of the Western CapeSouth AfricaCape Town11Ain Shams UniversityE
Over the last few years, quite a number of African countries have been threatening to leave the International Criminal Court (ICC). Burundi is among these countries, and they have finally left the ICC. The country announced its plans to withdraw a year ago and has finally decided to stand by
Africa has witnessed dictators who have done absurd things and who have plundered their countries beyond redemption. The level of damage that Mobutu Sese Seko inflicted on the Democratic Republic of Congo is unprecedented. His greed and insanity were above the comprehension of feeble minds. By the time he fled
Forbes Africa earlier this year released another list of 30 most promising young entrepreneurs. Rightly branded the most talked about list the magazine publishes, this list is the only sort of prophecy that makes sense. It identifies bright sparks and encourages conversations about all the right things that make Africa
The late 60’s were a period of international turmoil. The Vietnam War was on every household TV screen. Student protests met violent repercussions in many places. A time of cold war on the one side and détente on the other. Symbols of flower power, peace and love, competed with
Africa is an Autonomous continent. Before I go into a slight review of history for us all, and make my plea for Ubuntu to prevail, this is a notion you must understand about my people. What affects one Nation, affects us all, in some way or another. And considering the
Until recently, this question had always been a subject of taboo in South Africa. Nelson Mandela is one of the greatly revered African revolutionaries in Africa and in the world. When South Africa got its independence in 1994, others have been of the opinion which says Mandela sold out the
