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South African police have fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse students at the University of Witwatersrand, who are demanding changes to registration and financial aid policies. One person was killed, but it’s unclear if it was a student or passer-by. The students, in Johannesburg, have been protesting since …

A search is underway for more than 100 crocodiles that escaped from a breeding farm in South Africa’s eastern town of Hazyview in Mpumalanga province. The reptiles are believed to be in the rivers and dams around White River and the surrounding areas, public broadcaster SABC reports. At least 50 …

South Africa’s Judicial Conduct Committee has ordered the chief justice to apologise and retract his comments that showed support for Israel. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng made the remarks in June last year during a webinar which was hosted by The Jerusalem Post newspaper, according to local media. Africa 4 Palestine, …

According to researchers Frank Nyonator and Ken Sagoe, this West African country lost 50% of its nursing workforce between 1995 and 2005 despite certain advantages (free housing and bonuses) to curb this brain drain. In 2016, there were only 3,365 doctors, or 1 per 8,500 inhabitants. Ghana is not alone …

Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African president announced that restrictions established in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic will be lowered from level three to level one. He said that restrictions put in place over the holiday period had succeeded in reducing infections levels from 90,000 a week …

The American company that produces the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine says it’s ready to test a booster shot to target a variant of the virus first discovered in South Africa . The company says it’s ready to do human trials with several different strategies to see what gives more protection an …

Power cuts can be painful, right? But, for many South Africans, it’s now part of everyday life: something you would expect rather than something that would surprise you. “It’s got such a negative impact, especially in businesses”, says Tsholofelo Moeketsane, who has just started a new food business in Soweto, …

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 …

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 …

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 …