South Africa

December 03, (THEWILL) - Two members of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s security team have reportedly tested positive for COVID-19, in Nigeria. South Africa's President, Ramaphosa had landed in Nigeria on Tuesday night for the first leg of his West African tour, amid...

July 27, (THEWILL) - South Africa’s state-owned logistics firm Transnet says its main port terminals have been hit by a major cyber attack, prompting it to turn to a rarely-invoked clause releasing it from liability. In a letter to its customers,...

July 07, (THEWILL) - The African 100 metres' record set by Nigerian athlete Olusoji Fasuba, which had stood since 2006, was broken on Tuesday by South Africa's Akani Simbine who ran a winning race of 9.84 seconds at the...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 29, (THEWILL) – South Africa’s leading director Tebogo Malope has been tipped to direct an original documentary series telling the story of the launch and inaugural season of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). BAL, together with producer and...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 21, (THEWILL) - US retail giant, Amazon, says it plans to open its first African office in South Africa with a real estate investment of over R4 billion. The announcement is coming a week after Twitter chose to...

BEVERLY HILLS, April 12, (THEWILL) - The fiancée of popular South African hip hop artist, AKA, Nelli Tembe, has died after she from the 10th floor of a hotel. The incident happened on Sunday at the Pepperclub Hotel in Central Cape...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 16, (THEWILL) - South Africa today said it would offer its doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to the African Union (AU) after scrapping their use due to efficacy concerns. The country suspended its vaccine rollout (meant to...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 28, (THEWILL) - Bimpe Onakoya and her husband were robbed at gunpoint yesterday in Johannersburg, South Africa as they made their way into the city from the airport. The robbers robbed them of everything they had on...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 19, (THEWILL) – We have it on good authority that Nicki Minaj is having a swell time in South Africa, which is part of her Pink Print Tour. The rapper looked ravishing in a gold form fitting...