Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua (59) who has been ousted from office after being impeached in an unprecedented political saga, on Sunday labelled President William Ruto as ‘vicious’ and warned that his life could be in danger. Legalbrief reports ... Read More
A man who paid more than $32 000 child maintenance for a non-existent child, had his former partner arrested for theft by false pretences. eSwatini national Babongile Mkhonta is accused of fraudulently receiving maintenance money from Sihle Ndlovu for a ... Read More
King Mswati's upcoming overseas trip with his new wife, Inkhosikati Nomcebo Zuma, daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma, is expected to cost taxpayers more than R200m. According to the Swaziland News, the costs include allowances for the ... Read More
Mercury is increasingly being used to extract gold by miners digging on a massive scale in Ghana’s forests and farms, degrading land and polluting rivers to such an extent that the charity WaterAid has called it ‘ecocide’. ‘I could actually ... Read More
The French judiciary has discontinued its investigation into Callixte Mbarushimana, a former UN employee accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, citing insufficient evidence. Mbarushimana, who has held political refugee status in France for the past 20 years ... Read More
The UN envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, has floated the idea of dividing the territory between Morocco and the Polisario Front as a solution to the near five-decades-old dispute, according to a report on the Club of Mozambique ... Read More
US President Joe Biden will finally make his long-awaited African trip a month after the presidential elections slated for 5 November, the White House has confirmed. News24 reports that it will fulfil his promise to visit Africa while in office ... Read More
International Relations & Co-operation Minister Ronald Lamola has defended the government’s global diplomatic strategy, saying that President Cyril Ramaphosa has not focused on conflicts on other continents at the expense of peacekeeping and good governance efforts in Africa. The Daily ... Read More
An accused in a fraud investigation spanning SA, Ghana and the US has died. Nishani Singh died in Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg on Saturday. She was in a wheelchair when she appeared in court recently when she revealed ... Read More
A South African company awarded a tender to print the ballot papers for Namibia’s November elections has been embroiled in a N$570m 32m)scandal in Zimbabwe. The Electoral Commission of Namibia last week announced that the Johannesburg printing firm ... Read More
President Cyril Ramaphosa has referred a Bill that could make published work more accessible for the blind or visually impaired to the Constitutional Court, reports The Citizen. The Presidency confirmed this week that Ramaphosa had referred the Copyright Amendment Bill ... Read More
Is Brics a broadly useful association to reduce much of the world’s dependence on the West? Or is it becoming an instrument to help Russia – and to an extent China – counter their own growing tensions with the West ... Read More
African billionaire Aliko Dangote is wealthier than ever now that his long-awaited Nigerian oil refinery is up and running. Moneyweb reports that the Dangote Refinery outside Lagos is the biggest single-train oil refinery in the world and one of the ... Read More
Malawi’s High Court has identified major lapses in government provisions for validating customary marriages in that country, and has ordered that these be rectified urgently. Among other orders, the judge hearing the case, Zione Ntaba, gave the government a month ... Read More
21: The multi-million dollar graft case against fugitive pastor Shepherd Bushiri, his wife Mary and seven accomplices allegedly is expected to begin in the Gauteng High Court. The Bushiris and their accomplices are facing at least 350 counts, ranging from ... Read More
‘They were brutally assassinated (in a) cold-blooded murder.’ – The Centre for Democracy and Human Rights on the killing of Mozambican lawyer and lawmaker Elvino Dias and Venâncio Mondlane in Maputo this weekend ‘The shortcomings of the ... Read More
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans.’ – Abhijit Naskar, We Are All Black: A Treatise on Racism Read More
South Africa has the most equal official languages in the world with 11 official languages. It is the only country in the world with three capital cities – Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Yown (legislative) and Pretoria (executive). SA was the ... Read More
