Africa’s oldest ... covering 18 miles, opened in 1987, connecting Helwan to Ramses Square. By 1990, Line 1 was completed, running from Helwan in the south to New El Marg in the northeast.

Lake Volta, located in Ghana, spans a staggering 8,502 square kilometres - about 3.6% of the country’s total land area. Stretching approximately 250 miles (400km) from north to south ...

A major scientific leap has been made with the creation of the longest ultra-secure quantum satellite link between China and ...

The developers of Westown Square, the mall at South Africa’s newest R15 billion city in Shongweni, west of eThekwini metro, have laid the final bricks to complete construction ahead of its ...

The US is stalling the distribution of $2.6 billion (~R47 billion) in climate finance to South Africa, stoking concerns the money might be blocked outright, people familiar with the situation said.

In 2024, Anglo signalled that it would scale back its platinum holdings in South Africa, following its exit from coal in 2021 and 2022. While Anglo American is not exiting South Africa in totality ...

The world’s longest quantum communications link has been set up between China and South Africa, spanning a record-breaking 12,900 km (8,015 miles). The connection takes advantage of quantum physics ...

Budget announcements are rarely memorable events in South Africa. But the statement on March 12th by Enoch Godongwana, the finance minister, was one of the most notable since the end of white rule ...

Opposition parties in South Africa have called on its president not to be "bullied" by the US after Washington expelled Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool, giving him just 72 hours to leave the country.

He never returned, but South Africa clearly stayed with him. Take his recent intervention into the debate over the country’s land reform as an example. In response to a bill passed in January ...

South Africa, Feb. 20, 2025 (AP photo by Jerome Delay). “We must chart [a new] path in a world that is rapidly changing,” President Cyril Ramaphosa told the South African people this month in ...

South Africa’s economy grew less than expected in 2024 but managed to dodge a technical recession after ending the year slightly higher and narrowly avoiding a technical recession in a year ...