Soweto Film Market and SIFF add to the local pool of film festivals that include Cape Town International Film Market and Festival; Durban International Film Festival and Joburg Film Festival. Due to this small pool compared to other countries, any film festival goes a long way in growing the South African TV and film industry.

33 Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie comedy from South Africa titled Soweto Blaze, the latest from South African filmmaker Brad Katzen. This initially premiered at the 2023 Austin Film Festival last year, and it's now set for release starting on 4/20 on Netflix this wekend - in celebration of international cannabis day.

MUMBAI - India sees the G20 in South Africa as more than a diplomatic gathering; it is a civilisational moment where two major democracies of the Global South can reshape the grammar of global governance.

Seth Mazibuko strides into the intersection of Moema and Vilakazi Street in Soweto, gesturing to the spot that changed South African history. “This is where the students who were marching peacefully had a first confrontation with the police,” he says.

Researchers in South Africa have launched clinical trials for the first vaccine developed entirely in the country.

Made up of five smaller townships, Snake Park is home to about 5,000 properties built under South Africa's Reconstruction and Development Programme, an ongoing government-funded social housing project that began in 1994.

For 140 years, gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa have been leaking wastewater contaminated with heavy metals. The acid mine drainage from Johannesburg's estimated 278 abandoned mines and 200 mine dumps includes uranium (a radioactive metal), toxic ...

JOHANNESBURGJOHANNESBURG — South African boxer Dingaan Thobela, a two-weight world champion known as “The Rose of Soweto,” has died, the ministry of sports said on Tuesday. He was 57. Thobela won the WBO lightweight title in 1990 and the WBA ...