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Monday's fixtures [Round of 16] : Egypt vs. Benin and Nigeria vs. Mozambique.

Corporal punishment – usually referring to adults hitting children – was abolished in South Africa in 1997. The Constitutional Court had already ruled it incompatible with the bill of rights in 1995. In that judgement, the chief justice said that in his view, “juvenile whipping is cruel, it is inhuman…

Mohamed Salah looking to fire Pharaohs into Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals

Bafana Bafana meet the Indomitable Lions for a place in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals

Three species of the melodic African warbler bird refuse to get up early and sing their customary daybreak songs when the weather is cold. This new discovery was made recently by a team of soundscape ecologists in South Africa’s mountainous Golden Gate Highlands National Park. The team’s research co-leader, Mosikidi…

It's been an incredibly stupid year, and one man is at the center of it all!

Bafana Bafana now know their next opposition at the Africa Cup of Nations

Authorities said the deaths were linked to traditional initiation activities in November and December

In South Africa, manufacturers of pineapple juice and other pineapple products discard thousands of tons of pineapple leaves every year, with most ending up in dumpsites.