Southern Africa

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday,March 25, 2025 appointed the country’s army chief as sports minister. A statement from the presidency said Anselem Sanyatwe had been retired and reassigned to head the sports docket. The sports vacancy became available this month after Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee. …

A head-on collision between a bus and a truck killed 24 people near Beitbridge in Zimbabwe, according to reports. The bus was travelling from the capital, Harare, to Beitbridge with 65 passengers on board. Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said, the bus was trying to overtake another vehicle when it collided …

A seven-year-old Zimbabwean boy has been rescued after spending five days alone in a lion and elephant-inhabited game park. Tinotenda Pudu, from northern Zimbabwe, wandered 49 kilometers (30 miles) from his home into Matusadona National Park, a sprawling wilderness known for its dense population of predators and other dangerous wildlife. …

A 42-year-old man from Lusaka has initiated divorce proceedings after his wife posed for a controversial photograph with American R&B artist Chris Brown. The incident took place during a meet and greet session following Brown’s recent concert at the FNB Stadium in South Africa, where the woman, 34, had the pop star …

Zimbabwe has decided to abolish the death penalty almost 20 years after carrying out its last execution, a senior government official said. Martin Rushwaya, the Chief Cabinet Secretary, said in a government decree that President Emerson M’nangagwa had approved the law this week after the bill was passed by the …

A 57-year-old Zimbabwean woman is recovering in the hospital after managing to fight off a lion that attacked her in the wild. The woman displayed remarkable bravery when she grabbed the lion by the throat and choked it during the terrifying attack. The woman was heading to her fields to …

Ten miners died and five others survived despite their injuries after the mine where they were extracting gold collapsed in the Mumbwa district, around 150 kilometers west of Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. “An unspecified number of people had gone to carry out mining activities in the mine and in …

Four children were found dead while playing inside an unused freezer in the Zambezi region of northeastern Namibia. “The children found in the freezer were aged three and six,” reports said. The police believe the children were accidentally trapped while playing and suffocated inside. The Namibian police are investigating the …

A bus from Zimbabwe has overturned in Limpopo province in northeastern South Africa, killing at least five people, local authorities said Sunday, September 1, after a deadly week that left dozens dead on the road. “The province’s Department of Transport is sad to announce a second deadly bus accident in …

South Africa, which has one of the world’s highest crime rates, recorded nearly 6,200 murders between April and June, down 0.5 percent from the same period last year, according to police statistics released Friday. Crime is one of the main challenges facing the unity government formed after President Cyril Ramaphosa …