London, April 4, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South Africa’s Telkom, Samsung and the government have teamed up to develop a track and trace mobile app database to identify the whereabouts of people who may have contracted coronavirus. The virus has infected 1,462 people in the country and killed five. Telkom has been working with the National Institute for ...

London, March 30, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Homeless people in South Africa have been encouraged to move to temporary shelters provided by their respective provinces during the 21-day Covid-19 lockdown In his nationwide address to announce the lockdown, President Cyril Ramaphosa said temporary shelters must be identified to accommodate homeless people for at least 21 days. Provincial and ...

London, March 24, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa has imposed a 21-day total lockdown on the 56 million inhabitants of South Africa, telling them in an address that the unprecedented and sweeping measures were necessary to avoid a “catastrophe of huge proportions”. The lockdown will come into effect on Thursday night and be enforced by ...

London, March 21, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The number of confirmed positive cases of the coronavirus in South Africa rose to 240, the country’s Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize said on Saturday. The latest figures represent an increase of 38 cases from Friday when the government reported that there were 202 cases. Among the countries that some of ...

London, March 3, 2020 (AltAfrica)- South African Statistical officials have released latest economic figures that showed that the country is back to recession The South African economy shrank by 1.4% in the fourth quarter of 2019, according to new Gross Domestic Product (GDP) numbers. READ ALSO: TOP CAF OFFICIAL RESIGNS AT IN TROUBLED AFRICAN SOCCER ...

London, March 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South African government is to install wifi-enabled solar street lights to a community in the Western Cape, South Africa. Already, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deliver the ambitious project has been signed between Think WiFi and GreenCape READ ALSO: RWANDAN DRONES FOR BLOOD PROJECT SAVES THOUSANDS OF LIVES IN 25,000 ...

London, Feb. 11, 2020 (AltAfrica)- Thirty years ago, Nelson Mandela was released from 27 years of imprisonment by South Africa’s apartheid regime and instantly galvanised the country, and the world, to dismantle the brutal system of racial oppression. Raising a clenched-fist salute and striding purposefully from the gates of Victor Verster prison, Mandela, then 71, made it ...

Edited by Olabisi Adesina London, Feb. 4, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The latest attempt at an HIV vaccine has failed, as researchers announced Monday they have stopped giving the experimental shots in a major study. READ ALSO: SLOVENIA INAUGURATES FIRST MOSQUE AFTER 50 YEARS The study had enrolled more than 5,400 people since 2016 in South Africa, a ...

London, Feb. 4, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Roger Federer shakes his head and sounds a bit embarrassed when he’s asked why he’s never played a tennis match in South Africa until now. It is, after all, where his mother was born. “I don’t know what took me so long, to be quite honest,” the 20-time Grand Slam champion ...

London, Feb. 2, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Conflicts in Africa are one of the biggest impediments to the continent reaching its full potential. It leads to the loss of lives, displaces families, creates conditions for instability, human rights violations and undermines development. Sadly, the continent continues to be plagued by conflict in a number of countries. READ ALSO: ...