Category South Africa

24 hours in pictures, 28 April 2026

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world. A Blackheath resident has erected a sign that reads “Chips… kak big potholes” along Pasteur Road, seen 28 April 2026 as…

Botswana formally removes same-sex ban from law

Botswana activists said the amendment sends a clear message that LGBTIQ+ people are not criminals. Botswana has officially removed the remaining colonial-era provisions that criminalised consensual same-sex intimacy, more than six years after the courts first struck them down. Removing…