Filmed over six months, BBC Africa Eye follows Tshego, a nurse and mother from the Alexandra Township in Johannesburg, fighting a virus that brought her face to face with stigma, poverty and corruption.
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Grade 7 students at Johannesburg's City Kidz Pre & Primary School share how they feel about the coronavirus, life during lockdown and their socially-distanced return to school.
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South Africa came under a nationwide military-patrolled lockdown on March 27th, joining other African countries imposing strict curfews and shutdowns in an attempt to halt the spread of the coronavirus across the continent.
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Sports have historically been organized into two strict categories: male and female. But what about those who challenge the binary? VICE correspondent Gianna Toboni explores the debate over policies for transgender and intersex athletes.
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When it comes to finance and auditing, there are few on a global stage that can compare to PricewaterhouseCoopers. Eleni Giokos sits down with Shirley Machaba, PwC's Southern Africa CEO, for a look at how she became the first female CEO in company history.
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On April 15, TIME met with President Cyril Ramaphosa at his official residence, three weeks before the May 8 election.
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Manara Asad Begira is UNICEF Sudan’s First Youth Advocate. Manara and her team won the Generation Unlimited contest with a project that empowers youth in IDP camps in Sudan through local handicrafts.
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“There are two types of people in this world. There are polite people — people who respect people. People who let people be who they are, who they want to be. My parents are polite people. My family are polite people. I am polite. I respect you when you tell me who you are and I see who you are.
And then there are the other people. People who are threatened by greatness. People who are insecure or have to criticize other people for who they are. Those are the people I ignore. They do not exist. I shut them out.”
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North Kivu, Ituri and South Kivu provinces in DRC were hit by the world’s second-deadliest outbreak of Ebola in August 2018. The outbreak evolved in an extremely complex environment, marked by poor health infrastructure, political instability, community mistrust and ongoing conflict involving scores of armed groups.
Led by UNICEF with the support of international partners, thousands of Congolese responders and associations engaged with community and religious leaders, and Ebola survivors to bring crucial knowledge to the communities most at risk.
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It’s hard to catch a poacher in the wild. Now, a pioneering group of conservationists, entrepreneurs and researchers say the combination of drones and artificial intelligence may change the game and solve the night vision problem.
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Francisca*, 11, lost her home to Cyclone Idai, the worst natural disaster to hit southern Africa in at least two decades. An orphan, she was living alone with her two brothers in Manga, Mozambique, when the cyclone made landfall and the roof of her house collapsed. She was then moved to a children’s home in Beira.
UNICEF helped to reunite separated families by Cyclone Idai and Kenneth in 2019 and looked after orphaned children.
*Not her real name.
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Members of pro-Palestinian and other civil society groups demonstrated outside the U.S. Consulate General in Johannesburg, South Africa, on May 15, 2018. One day earlier, the U.S. formally moved its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in defiance of international outrage.
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For Debi Steven, a South African rape survivor, the only way to overcome her trauma was that of helping others. Action Breaks Silence, the charity she founded, aims at teaching empowerment through self-defence to girls and empathy to boys in order to fight rape, one of the most pressing issues in the country.
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Watching these two little lion cubs boisterously play with each other at a conservation centre outside of Pretoria, it's hard to see anything out of the ordinary. But these cubs are unique. They are the first ever lion cubs to be born by means of artificial insemination.
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Between 18 and 21 people die due to gun violence in South Africa every day. A group of young reporters from the Alexandra township in Johannesburg is hoping to tackle this scourge in a rather peculiar way - by producing and hosting their own radio show.
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As South Africa mourns the loss of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the death of 14-year-old activist Stompie Seipei in 1989 still taints the anti-apartheid stalwart's legacy.
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Conservationists in Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa are encouraging farmers to grow coffee in the shade of hardwood trees as a way to improve their lot and reverse deforestation at the same time.
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Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe stepped down on November 21, 2017, bringing an end to nearly 40 years of iron-fisted rule. His resignation came days after military tanks rolled through the capital Harare. The coup was greeted with euphoria with tens of thousands of people pouring into the streets to celebrate.
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Toxic water and dust are endangering the lives of tens of thousands of South Africans living in Soweto, where residents have no choice but to live near mounds of toxic waste produced during the 19th century gold rush.
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