South Africa

After Rwanda, Emmanuel Macron is in South Africa this Friday 28 May. A journey with a focus on health, while this country is the one that has been hit hardest by the Covid crisis on the African continent. With our special correspondent in Pretoria, Pierre FirtionAs soon as they arrived in South Africa, Emmanuel Macron was…

The ruling party has always been an ally of the Palestinian cause, in its fight against Israel, described as an apartheid regime. In May 2018, South Africa withdrew its ambassador from Tel Aviv and demoted the embassy to a simple contact office. Within the ANC's leadership, some activists are demanding to move on and break diplomatic ties with Tel Aviv. They were almost 200 gathered in front of the…

Like the rest of the world, the South African economy has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. The country most affected by Covid-19 on the continent was already struggling to renew its economic model even before the pandemic. The health crisis has therefore stopped the recovery work. A fatal blow? President Cyril Ramaphosa still hopes to rectify the situation, especially thanks to a recovery…

South Africa is the world's eighth largest producer of wine. The sector employs almost 300,000 people directly or indirectly and seeks to reorganize, while being overwhelmed by unsold goods. From our special correspondent in Cape Town,The harvest ended in the wine region around the city of Cape Town, and especially on Rob…

Between the 2018-2019 season and today, the cultivated areas have 10,000 hectares. South Africa is a very small producer country on an African and even regional scale, behind Zimbabwe and Zambia. So if its surface area thereby decreases, what future for the sector? From our correspondent in Johannesburg,The harvest is taking…

In South Africa, a research group is trying to make the rhino's horn radioactive with nuclear technology. This project aims to make ivory trading much more difficult. The project was initiated by the University of the Witwatersrand in collaboration with an American university, an Australian organization and the Russian Federal…

On Saturday, May 22, President Cyril Ramaphosa traveled to the north of the country, to Tafelkop, in the Limpopo region, to give 30 black farmers ownership of state land. A very political ceremony before the local elections, planned for the end of the year. The issue of land distribution continues to burn in the country and the promised reforms are taking place very slowly.…

In South Africa, whereas males are already legally allowed to have a number of wives, a debate has begun over polyandry or the proven fact that a girl has a number of husbands. A style of marriage that continues to be very uncommon on this planet. The federal government has revealed a doc inspecting the varied factors in a doable reform of South Africa's marriage legislation. And among the many choices…

In reference to the World Day towards Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, on Could 17, two Africans testify about their lives, poles aside: one, a gay in Senegal, have to be hidden to keep away from imprisonment, whereas the opposite, a lesbian in South Africa , asserts itself in daylight. Habibou, 25, is a younger Dakarois…

Former South African President Jacob Zuma is resulting from seem in court docket on Monday, Could 17, within the Supreme Courtroom of Pietermaritzburg in his province of KwaZulu-Natal. Zuma is being sued in a corruption case with the French military-industrial Thalès. as reported from Johannesburg, Romain MusicInformation…