Zimbabwe’s leading opposition party on Thursday 27 July 2023 suffered a major blow ahead of national elections next month as a court disqualified all its candidates vying for seats in the nation’s second-largest city. The decision paves the way for the ruling ZANU-PF party to scoop up Bulawayo’s 12 constituencies in the August 23 vote, […]

Vladimir Putin gifted the president of Zimbabwe a helicopter, Harare said on Thursday 27 july 2023, as the Russian leader courts the backing of African leaders in Saint Petersburg. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa is among those attending a two-day Russia-Africa summit that is being scrutinised as a test of Putin’s support in the continent after […]

“We are not supposed to be starving,” said Elizabeth Ruiters, deputy chairperson of activist organisation #PayTheGrants. The Institute for Economic Justice and #PayTheGrants campaign have launched an application in the Pretoria High Court. The application challenges regulations for the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant which, they say, exclude eligible recipients. The applicants want the […]

The latest census is expected to be published before October, according to Census Project Director Calvin Molongoana. The last one, the 2011 census, was released more than a decade ago in 2012. The latest census is expected to be released between July and 30 September 2023. The census was last conducted more than a decade ago, […]

Thulas Nxesi, Minister of Employment and Labour, states that his department is willing to engage with the public if they have concerns about the Employment Equity Amendment Act. “If there are people who are worried, we are open for engagement. At this stage, we are engaged in a number of road shows and we are going […]

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has banned some of its public representatives (MPs and MPLs) for failing to organise transport for their constituencies to attend the party’s 10th anniversary rally. The rally will be held at the FNB Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday, 29 July. EFF BANS REPRESENTATIVES FROM ITS RALLY The party said in January […]

Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee to Nominate a Person for Appointment as Public Protector has shortlisted eight candidates for the position with interviews expected to be held in August. The term of current incumbent, Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane, ends in October. She is currently suspended. The eight candidates vying for the position are: Current acting Public Protector, […]

A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday jailed a pro-junta activist for one year for defaming the police and added two more years from a previous suspended sentence for making death threats. ALSO READ: Mali’s junta chief new constitution fuels opponents protests The court in the capital Ouagadougou found Mohamed Sinon guilty after he accused the […]

The race quota law aimed at increasing the employment of black people in South Africa has enraged some businesses and opposition parties who say the legislation could see qualified workers lose their jobs. The government has rebuffed the criticism, saying the bill is not going to result in job losses and only seeks to promote […]

Former PRASA chairperson and member of parliament, Sfiso Buthelezi, is threatening to sue Zackie Achmat, director of commuter activist group #UniteBehind, for defamation. This after Achmat made statements during a radio interview in which he accused Buthelezi of corruption during his time at the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). Zackie Achmat and #UniteBehind are refusing […]

A new law aimed at increasing the employment of black people in South Africa has enraged businesses and liberals who say the legislation could see qualified workers lose their jobs. ALSO READ | The 16 Caribbean countries South African passport holders can visit visa-free South Africa’s leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), is to take to the […]

The former Tourism Minister Derek Hanekom has condemned ANC secretary general Fikile Mbalula for threatening to remove public enterprises minister Pravin Gordhan. Mbalula had singled out Gordhan and said that he must quickly fix Transnet’s problems or face removal. “When you make a statement like this, you need to explain why you are not making a statement […]

Kenya’s opposition Saturday 22 July 2023 called a fresh anti-government rally next week to protest rising prices and taxes after three previous demonstrations largely failed to mobilise supporters. Last week saw a trio of protests against the administration of President William Ruto, taking the total of such marches to eight since March. But while a […]

The South African Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, recently lost a court case that anyone could have anticipated was unwinnable. He probably expected to lose it too. He lost it on humanitarian and technical grounds. It prevents him from terminating the South African government’s concession to refugees from neighbouring Zimbabwe nearly fifteen years ago. […]

The DA has welcomed the latest announcement from IPID that the blue light bullies who were involved in assaulting unarmed civilians in early July were processed at Sandton Police Station on Sunday and will appear in Randburg Magistrate’s Court today. Independent Police Investigative Directorate spokesman Robbie Raburabu confirmed that the eight cops would be processed […]

Kenyans largely ignored a call by the opposition to boost anti-government protests on Thursday 20 July 2023, although isolated clashes flared in the capital between police and stone-throwing demonstrators. Police fired tear gas and live rounds at protesters in Nairobi’s Kibera slum, an opposition stronghold, AFP journalists saw, but no violence was reported elsewhere in contrast to […]

Liberia’s election commission published Thursday 20 July 2023 a preliminary list of candidates for October’s legislative election, with women accounting for only 15 per cent of nominees despite efforts for a 30 per cent quota. Only 159 of the 1,030 people nominated to the West African country’s Senate and House of Representatives are women, the […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Kyiv’s counteroffensive, launched to push Russian troops back in the south and east of Ukraine, was failing despite military and financial support from Western countries. ALSO READ: BREAKING: Vladimir Putin will NOT attend BRICS Summit in SA “In any case, there are no results yet” of the counteroffensive, he […]

The government of South Africa has revealed that more nations have applied to become part of the BRICS bloc. Anil Sooklal, South Africa’s ambassador at large for Asia and BRICS, said this to the media ahead of the BRICS summit in August. ALSO READ: Namibian parliament approves anti-gay law despite court ruling Sooklal said that 22 […]

Twenty-two countries from around the globe have applied to join the BRICS bloc and more have shown interest, South Africa said Thursday, ahead of the five-nation group’s summit next month. ALSO READ: BREAKING: Vladimir Putin will NOT attend BRICS Summit in SA BRICS, a loosely-defined group which sees itself as a counterweight to Western economic domination, derives its […]

South Africa is on the path to reforming its law on whistleblowing to provide improved protection for individuals who expose corruption and illegal activity. The country’s Department of Justice and Constitutional Development recently published a discussion document on the proposed reforms. This first step in reforming the country’s law on whistleblowers is to be welcomed. […]

Where is former president Jacob Zuma, and will he ever go to prison? WHERE IS FORMER PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA AND WILL HE EVER GO TO PRISON? This comes after reports he extended his stay in Moscow. ALSO READ: Jacob Zuma ‘ill’ and receiving medical attention in Russia Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi confirmed to the media on […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin decided against attending an upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg in person because he did not want to “jeopardise” the talks, a top South African diplomat said Thursday. ALSO READ: Mapaila: South Africa had no ‘capacity’ to arrest Putin Putin’s potential visit had posed a diplomatic and legal dilemma for South Africa ahead of the […]

The incumbent Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, Solly Mapaila, has said that the government did not have the capacity to arrest Russian president Putin. Mapaila was reacting to the statement that Foreign Minister Mr. Sergey Lavrov will represent Putin in the BRICS summit. “Russia is a big world country. Who can touch […]

About 50 Zimbabwean opposition activists clad in yellow T-shirts were knocking on doors and handing out election flyers in Harare when a dozen riot police arrived and told them to disperse. ALSO READ: Zimbabwe opposition launches election rallies after multiple bans For the campaigners, the intervention was one more sign of a strategy to wreck their […]