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Construction & Engineering

Africa’s builders get a resilience wake-up: 51% see higher value now

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Infectious Diseases

Congo’s Ebola outbreak spirals faster than global response

Jennifer Rigby, Aaron Ross, Olivia Le Poidevin, Clement Bonnerot and Silvia Aloisi 1 day

2026 Africa Elevate Scholarship recipients announced

Media

2026 Africa Elevate Scholarship recipients announced

1 day

Logistics helps African businesses expand into new markets

Logistics & Transport

Logistics helps African businesses expand into new markets

1 day

Woodstock Brewery’s Funky Monk’s wins “Best Beer in Africa”

Food & Wine

Woodstock Brewery’s Funky Monk’s wins “Best Beer in Africa”

1 day

Countries tighten travel measures following Ebola outbreak

Travel

Countries tighten travel measures following Ebola outbreak

Mirko Miorelli, Alexander Klyve Gudbrandsen and Arda Dipova 2 days

Source: Supplied. Ola Oyetayo, chief executive officer and co-founder of Verto.

Fintech

#AfricaMonth | Paying Lagos is still harder than paying London

3 days

Wonga takes the highest accolade of the night at the 2026 Africa Tech Week Awards

Technology

Wonga takes the highest accolade of the night at the 2026 Africa Tech Week Awards

Issued by Topco Media 3 days

Gibs recognised with 2 Silver Awards in EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2026

Higher Education

Gibs recognised with 2 Silver Awards in EFMD Excellence in Practice Awards 2026

Issued by Gordon Institute of Business Science 3 days

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Climate Change

A storm is brewing as experts warn of a “super” El Niño

3 days

The growing impact of MultiChoice Talent Factory across Africa’s film industry

Film & Cinematography

The growing impact of MultiChoice Talent Factory across Africa’s film industry

Issued by MultiChoice 3 days

Africa’s luxury travel shift creates new opportunities

Travel

Africa’s luxury travel shift creates new opportunities

Clinton Els 26 May 2026

#AfricaMonth: Expertise to unlock mining’s catalytic impact on Africa’s infrastructure

Mining

#AfricaMonth: Expertise to unlock mining’s catalytic impact on Africa’s infrastructure

Issued by SRK Consulting 26 May 2026

Exclusive: Consumers embrace digital ecosystems cautiously, prioritising trust over convenience

CRM

Exclusive: Consumers embrace digital ecosystems cautiously, prioritising trust over convenience

Tshepo Moila 26 May 2026

Lexi Venter stars in Don't let's go to the dogs tonight. Source: YouTube

Film & Cinematography

SA Film Festival 2026 to screen across Australia, New Zealand

26 May 2026

#AfricaMonth | Africa must tell its own tourism story

Tourism

#AfricaMonth | Africa must tell its own tourism story

Robin Fredericks 26 May 2026

Branding

Africa 200 ranking reflects growing confidence of Pan-African brands

26 May 2026

'The Return of the Arab Priest', exhibition at UP Museums

Art

UP Museums presents Irma Stern’s Arab Priest - a rare homecoming on view in Pretoria

Issued by University of Pretoria 25 May 2026

Graham Cruikshanks, director of Africa operations at TBWA says there is a strong desire to recognise African advertising talent (Image supplied)

Africa Month

#AfricaMonth | Recognising Africa's unique advertising voice

Danette Breitenbach 25 May 2026

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Banking

Afreximbank posts strong Q1 2026 growth amid global headwinds

25 May 2026

WHO workers mobilised 4.7 tonnes of essential medical supplies and emergency kits to support the affected regions in response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya. Image credit: World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Infectious Diseases

Gates Foundation commits $15m to Ebola response as WHO suspects 900 cases

25 May 2026

The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) African Regional Certification Commission declared South Africa polio-free in 2019. Image credit: , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Public Health

NICD detects 2 polio virus strains in Cape Town wastewater

22 May 2026

African food producers move up the value chain

Agriculture

African food producers move up the value chain

25 May 2026

SA Poultry cries industry sacrifice, heads to court over shaky AGOA poultry quota

Agriculture

SA Poultry cries industry sacrifice, heads to court over shaky AGOA poultry quota

Issued by AMIE 22 May 2026

Seynabou Diop works at a station in a laboratory where the hantavirus genome was sequenced from the April 2026 outbreak, at Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal. Image credit: Reuters/Ricci Shryock

Infectious Diseases

Hantavirus in Africa: why climate change, rats and weak surveillance are worrying scientists

Wolfgang Preiser, Carla Mavian, Cheryl Baxter, Richard Lessells and Tulio de Oliveira 22 May 2026

Trialogue Business in Society Conference 2026 urges business to turn values into collective action

CSI & Philanthropy

Trialogue Business in Society Conference 2026 urges business to turn values into collective action

Issued by Trialogue 21 May 2026

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Energy

Eskom in talks with World Bank over nuclear expansion in SA

Wendell Roelf 21 May 2026

Significant adjustment on the horizon needed for tertiary education

Higher Education

Significant adjustment on the horizon needed for tertiary education

Issued by Bullion PR & Communication 20 May 2026

Volkswagen and Mastertons launch limited-edition People’s Blend coffee

FMCG

Volkswagen and Mastertons launch limited-edition People’s Blend coffee

20 May 2026

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4th Industrial Revolution

Why simply adding AI tools is failing to deliver productivity

20 May 2026

South African student selected as inaugural 2026 Effie Lions Foundation Voices of the Future fellow

Effie Awards

South African student selected as inaugural 2026 Effie Lions Foundation Voices of the Future fellow

Issued by Association for Communication and Advertising 20 May 2026

An immersive Table Mountain experience by Chaos Theory and the Millat Group has won a global event award (Image supplied)

Events & Conferencing

African-led events worldclass as Table Mountain immersive experience wins global award

19 May 2026

Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria to pilot AfCFTA digital trade system

Logistics & Transport

Kenya, Morocco and Nigeria to pilot AfCFTA digital trade system

19 May 2026

Global survey highlights the balance between human experience and AI innovation

PR & Communications

Global survey highlights the balance between human experience and AI innovation

Nicole Capper, Issued by MANGO-OMC 19 May 2026

South Africa will be the country in focus, pictured is stakeholders at the signing of the agreement. Source: Supplied.

Film & Cinematography

Berlinale EFM names South Africa 2027 country in focus

19 May 2026

A Congolese health worker checks the temperature to screen a traveller at the Grande Barrier border following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak involving the Bundibugyo strain, at the border crossing point between Congo and Rwanda, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Reuters/Arlette Bashizi

Infectious Diseases

Cross-border Ebola threat sparks Africa CDC alert as SA urged vigilance

19 May 2026

Cannes Lions

#CannesLions2026 | Creative Marketer of the Year named

18 May 2026

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Tourism

Africa’s Travel Indaba fuels R835m boost for Durban tourism

18 May 2026

Isu Elihle Awards open for entries with R30,000 for first place

Media

Isu Elihle Awards open for entries with R30,000 for first place

18 May 2026

Protesters outside the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition’s offices in Cape Town in August 2025. Archive photo: Matthew Hirsch

Coal, Oil & Gas

No plan to review SA’s coal exports to Israel, says Parks Tau

Matthew Hirsch 18 May 2026

Garth van der Horst, new head of schools for Spark Schools

Primary & Secondary Education

Spark Schools appoints new head of schools

18 May 2026

Workers stand guard at the gate of the Kibuli Muslim Hospital, where a Congolese man died of the Ebola Bundibugyo virus in Kibuli suburb of Kampala, Uganda. Image credit: Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa

Infectious Diseases

Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda triggers WHO emergency alert

Disha Mishra and Akanksha Khushi 18 May 2026

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Agriculture

Biofuels push could unlock 25,000 rural jobs

15 May 2026

Vinayak Sasitharan named Mondelēz International senior finance director for SSA

Banking & Finance

Vinayak Sasitharan named Mondelēz International senior finance director for SSA

15 May 2026

In 2025, KFC Add Hope open-sourced its entire child-feeding blueprint and invited Gen Z innovators to improve it. Image supplied.

Food, Water & Energy Security

How SA's young innovators help KFC Add Hope feed more children

15 May 2026

MEA region has done well at The One Show. Source: Supplied.

The One Club for Creativity

Accenture Song SA dominates One Show MEA with 3 Golds

15 May 2026

The Constitutional Court has ruled that rejected asylum seekers cannot reapply. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Immigration & Citizenship Law

Constitutional Court rules asylum seekers once rejected cannot reapply

Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti 14 May 2026

Global health progress at risk without stronger systems, warns WHO

Healthcare

Global health progress at risk without stronger systems, warns WHO

Issued by COHSASA 14 May 2026