South Africa team wins BBC hackathon

Dewani and Pistorius cases show South Africa now ruled by law

South Africa President Jacob Zuma hits back at the criticism of the country's team by his sports minister Fikile Mbalula.

Brand South Africa joins the rest of the country in condemning the acts of violence

 Brand South Africa (http://www.southafrica.info) joins the rest of the country in condemning the acts of violence that have been levelled against some foreign national residing in some of the nine provinces of South Africa.

We assure all our partners in the continent that South Africa stands firmly against all intolerances such as racism, xenophobia, homophobia and sexism. As such security forces are hard...

Nigeria and Liverpool forward Asisat Oshoala is named as the first BBC Women's Footballer of the Year.

Nigeria and Liverpool forward Asisat Oshoala wins the inaugural BBC Women's Footballer of the Year.

Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure is voted the BBC African Footballer of the Year 2015.

A Ugandan journalist, Nancy Kacungira has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. She’s a television anchor for Kenya's KTN television channel, was selected from nearly 200 applicants. She will spend three months at the BBC in London and also report from Africa for the BBC TV, radio and online.

A special edition of BBC World Service’s global radio programme, BBC Africa Debate, will be coming from the British Museum in London. Presented by the BBC’s Alex Jakana and Zeinab Badawi and recorded in front of an invited audience, it will ask if Africa has outgrown development aid.
Ten years ago the British Museum hosted the launch of the UK-government-led ‘Commission for Africa’. This was the time of a popular global movement to Make Poverty History in Africa, a revival of Live Aid...

*15 countries visited in 102 days covering 23,000 kilometers

*127,000 units of stationery distributed to children in need

The DHL Africa as One team, who departed from Cape Town in October 2014 in three Land Rover Discoveries, have completed almost a third of their journey, covering 15 countries in 102 days. During this period, they have crossed 40 border posts, travelled 23,000 kilometers and spent over 350 hours on the road – with the longest uninterrupted stretch of continuous driving...