Don't miss Thursday, 13 February's riveting episode of South African soapie Smoke and Mirrors on e.tv on DStv channel 194.

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Not much is known about the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, save that it's regarded as the shortest war in history, lasting a ...