The commission probing widespread state corruption when Jacob Zuma was president of South Africa, on Monday requested the Supreme Court to hand down a two year jail time for Zuma over his refusal to testify. Since the creation of the commission in 2018, Jacob Zuma already implicated by some forty …
Read More »Mozambique loses its opposition leader Daviz Simango
The leader of the second-largest opposition party in Mozambique, Daviz Simango has died in neighbouring South Africa where he had been evacuated on Feburary 13. A few days earlier, Mr Simango was tested negative whereas his wife was tested positive for coronavirus. His brother Lutero Simango told journalists at the …
Read More »Corruption inquiry asks for prison for ex-president Zuma
The judicial inquiry into government corruption in South Africa has asked the Constitutional Court to sentence former President Jacob Zuma to two years in prison for contempt. This followed Mr Zuma’s failure to appear before the State Capture Commission last week, despite a summons and an order from the highest …
Read More »Seif Bamporiki, Rwandan exiled politician shot dead in SA
A Rwandan opposition politician, Seif Bamporiki, living in exile in South Africa, was shot dead while delivering a bed to a client in Nyanga on Sunday afternoon. Reports say Seif Bamporiki was killed while delivering furniture to a client on Sunday afternoon in Cape Town. It is not clear whether …
Read More »South Africa: a man jailed for killing a 28 years pregnant woman
A man has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for the brutal murder of a pregnant woman whose death galvanised protests in South Africa and prompted a speech by the president. The body of 28-year-old Tshegofatso Pule was found hanging from a tree last June, with multiple stab wounds. …
Read More »South African president to receive vaccine against Covid-19
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will take the Johnson & Johnson vaccine that is set to rollout in the country. The president and the health minister will be immunised on Wednesday afternoon alongside health care workers at Khayelitsha, west of the country. He says it will “demonstrate our confidence in …
Read More »South Africa reopens land border to facilitate crossings
South Africa on Monday reopened 20 land border crossings that were closed over a month ago to limit the spread of Covid-19. The land border points with Zimbabwe, Namibia, Mozambique, eSwatini, Botswana and Lesotho will now have normal travel. They were closed following congestion by people who sought to enter …
Read More »South Africa will now use Johnson & Johnson Covid-vaccine
The South African government has outlined its amended coronavirus immunisation plans. They were put on hold when a trial suggested that the AstraZeneca vaccines which were due to be distributed were less effective against a local variant of the virus. Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said a Johnson and Johnson vaccine …
Read More »WHO concerned about SA decision to halt vaccine rollout
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against jumping to conclusions about the efficacy of coronavirus vaccines. This decision comes after a South African study suggested that the AstraZeneca vaccine was less effective against a local variant of the virus. But experts are hopeful that the vaccine will still be …
Read More »African Union ‘promises vaccine in next three weeks’
Sixteen African countries have shown interest in securing Covid-19 vaccines under an African Union (AU) initiative and the aim is to deliver allocations in the next three weeks, Reuters news agency quotes the the head of a continental disease control body as saying. However, John Nkengasong, director of the AU’s …
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