Just like four years ago, Nigerians are going to the polls today with the choice between two evils. Both candidates are stubborn career politicians. Muhammadu Buhari is a former dictator whose...
Zimbabwe was the scene of looting, chaos and deadly confrontations between police and angry demonstrators in recent days. According to the police, at least three people were killed,...
The surprising election victory of opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi is a historic breakthrough for the Democratic Republic of Congo, but according to analysts and observers another...
At least two people were killed in a train accident in South Africa. Also according to the emergency services dozens of people were injured when two trains collided in Pretoria.
As the longest serving minister of foreign affairs ever, Pik Botha was for decades the face of the racist apartheid regime in South Africa. However, many people remember the politician who died this week as a 'good man', a polished diplomat and as a former member of Nelson Mandela's first democratically determined cabinet.
In the coming three years, China will again open the money tap for African countries, without imposing conditions on democracy, press freedom and human rights. No wonder African leaders are keen to increase the sky-high debt burden.
African presidents like Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa), Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) and Paul Kagame (Rwanda) are pleased with the plan of China to invest another 52 billion euros in the continent.
On Wednesday night in the US, Trump twittered that he had asked Foreign Affairs Minister Pompeo to study carefully the 'land and farm expropriation' and the 'large-scale murder of farmers' in South Africa. He responded to a broadcast by Fox News, in which the intention of the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was discussed to change the constitution to simplify the expropriation of farms.
Has Nelson Mandela sold our tubers for lemons? For global fans of the resistance-heroist who was born a hundred years ago on Wednesday, the question sounds like sacrilegious, but in South Africa more and more- especially young- people are blaming for the lack of prosperity in Mandela's actions and mistakes.
The crash with the historic Convair in South Africa has demanded a second life. It is a South African who was present in the building against which the plane crashed. That is what Peter Mashaba of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (SAACAA) says. This service investigates the accident.
The Convair 340, a historic aircraft purchased by the Dutch Aviodrome, crashed near the South African city of Pretoria during a test flight. There are about twenty wounded.
South African former president Jacob Zuma will appear in court on Friday for suspected corruption, fraud and money laundering.
The late anti-apartheid activist Winnie Mandela was both loved and reviled in his own country. She was given the pet name Mother of the Nation, by the stoic calm with which she underwent the threats and harassment of the then-white government, but within the anti-apartheid movement her position was controversial.
The South African Public Prosecutor is still persecuting former president Jacob Zuma for corruption. The highest prosecutor in the country says Zuma informed about this by letter.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has brought Nhlanhla Nene back as Minister of Finance. Nene was kicked out of office at the end of 2015 after one and a half years in office by the then leader Jacob Zuma. Now he gets a new chance at this important post.
If someone can clean up the mess that South African President Jacob Zuma left behind, then it is Cyril Ramaphosa. The experienced politician and businessman recently showed that he has the tact and perseverance to make investors enthusiastic and to abandon the culture of corruption and pocket filling.
The canvas has fallen for Jacob Zuma. The South African president announced late last night under immense pressure and prevented a shameful vote of no confidence in parliament.
The South African government party ANC has given President Jacob Zuma 48 hours to resign as head of state. Otherwise he will be relieved of his function. The state television channel SABC has announced this on Monday night.
In South Africa, several H \u0026 amp; M stores have been turned over as a result of the riot around the coolest monkey in the jungle sweater. Angry activists have razed all clothing racks and mannequins to the ground.
On appeal, the South African handicapped athlete Oscar Pistorius was sentenced by the Supreme Court Friday to thirteen years and five months in prison for the murder in 2013 of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. He had previously been sentenced to six years in prison.
Nineteen schoolchildren have been killed in South Africa by a traffic crash. The minibus in which they traveled bumped north of Pretoria on a truck and exploded, emergency services reported on Friday.
Tens of thousands of South Africans are Friday in major cities took to the streets to demand the resignation of President Jacob Zuma. The protesters are angry that Zuma has dismissed the popular Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and many posts have reallocated his cabinet.
Cosatu, the largest union of South Africa, President Jacob Zuma Tuesday called on to resign. CEO Bheki Ntshalintshali Cosatu said Zuma 'is no longer the right person' to lead the country.
South Africa will remain a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The government complained last month about the court as 'a tribunal to try Africans' and wants to quit. However, the High Court in Pretoria ruled that the decision was unlawful because the parliament had passed the decision.
Nearly a hundred severely ill psychiatric patients in the past year in South Africa, died after being transferred to devices without a license. They came from a specialized private clinic. The provincial government of Gauteng found the cost of the clinic is too high and canceled the contract, with disastrous consequences.
Jacob Zuma has survived a confidence vote from his own party ANC. That means he can stay on as president of South Africa.
Hart executive committee of the ANC decides possible Monday about the fate of Jacob Zuma. The 74-year-old president of South Africa is haunted by scandals. For years there have been allegations of corruption, bribery and money laundering. Not only against Zuma, but also against his wealthy family.
A video of a terrified black man alive is forced into a coffin, creates uproar in South Africa. shows that Victor Rethabile cries of fear as he the lid of the coffin gets his head on the video of 20 seconds. The two suspects in the act, Willem Oosthuizen and Theo Martins Jackson, stood Wednesday before the court. The images were massively shared through social media.
The two main South African opposition parties join forces to ruling party ANC outside the board to keep the big cities. The left-wing populist Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) on Wednesday promised to tolerate a minority of middle college party DA in include Johannesburg and Pretoria.
After Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, the ANC loses power in Pretoria and surrounding areas after the local elections. According to the state news agency of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) as the largest of the bus arrived in the metropolis Tshwane, where the administrative capital Pretoria is the heart of.
