Nick Dall

A quaint lo­cal fes­ti­val cel­e­brates the life of the first dog to re­ceive a Roy­al Navy rank

Chris­tians eat fish on Good Fri­day. But in Cape Town the fish is al­most al­ways smoth­ered in a sweet cur­ried sauce – and

A caf­feine-free ‘cof­fee’ in South Africa turns a prob­lem plant into a healthy drink – and in­come for a re­mote com­mu­ni­ty.

The sick­ly sweet tweegevri­etjie is a vi­su­al rep­re­sen­ta­tion of ‘the white man with a black heart who broke promis­es’.

Ten years af­ter Man­dela passed away, his kef­fiyeh mo­ment re­mains a sym­bol of South African warmth for Pales­tine.

The Makana Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion was an­oth­er way to re­sist apartheid by po­lit­i­cal pris­on­ers in the South African jail.

Waves for Change, which orig­i­nat­ed in South Africa, works with young peo­ple at high risk of ‘tox­ic stress’.

FIFA and CAF hope Africa’s newest club com­pe­ti­tion will boost fund­ing and help de­vel­op the game, but some have con­cerns.

With In­dia and Pak­istan fac­ing off at the ICC World Cup, we look at the long his­to­ry of crick­et as a diplo­mat­ic tool.