Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s national security adviser Sydney Mufamadi is in Washington at the head of a delegation lobbying the Biden administration and congressional leaders. This comes amid concerns that South Africa’s controversial stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine is jeopardising SA’s economic and political relations with America. Mufamadi’s team is …

A married couple from Tshwane have been arrested after the husband, who was thought to have burnt to death, was arrested driving a stolen car.There are suspicions that the body buried in the husband’s place belongs to the woman’s ex-boyfriend.Police are in the process of having the body exhumed. A …

“Facebook rapist” and murderer Thabo Bester’s lover, Dr Nandipha Magudumana, was remanded in custody until May 3 while her father Zolile Cornelius Sekeleni was granted R10,000 bail by the Bloemfontein magistrate’s court on Monday. He is expected back at court on May 16. “Facebook rapist” and murderer Thabo Bester’s lover, …

A Singapore-registered oil tanker has been boarded by “unidentified persons” about 300 nautical miles (555km) off Ivory Coast in the Gulf of Guinea, the city-state’s port authority said. The Gulf of Guinea was long known as a hotspot for global piracy, with insurance firm Beazley offering the “Gulf of Guinea …

The death toll from Cyclone Freddy has risen sharply to more than 1,000 people, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera said on Wednesday, as the southern African nation continues to recover from one of the deadliest storms to hit the continent in the last two decades. Cyclone Freddy left a trail of …

The Sudanese army said on Thursday that a para-military force headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo had mobilised troops in the capital Khartoum and other cities – a move that raises the prospect of confrontaion with the armed forces. The army said in a statement that the Rapid Support Forces …

If this were the plot of a movie, it would be too far-fetched to be believable. South African authorities have taken over management of a maximum-security prison run by a private British security firm after a high-profile convicted murderer was accused of faking his own death in a fire, then …

The process of uncovering where exactly the founder of the Manchester Guardian, John Edward Taylor, and his associates were importing cotton from was a lengthy and difficult one. At the start, in autumn 2020, I was given the names of the 11 original funders of the Manchester Guardian, and how …

The ANC has hailed South Africans for rejecting the EFF’s invitation to participate in what it says could have been another July 2021 unrest. The party’s secretary-general Fikile Mbalula believes that it was as a result of South Africans refusing to take part in the protest that the EFF changed …

Zimbabwe will hold harmonised elections in four months even though the country’s electoral commission (ZEC) has not released an electronic voters’ roll for scrutiny despite several court challenges. The ZEC’s actions are contrary to the country’s constitution in Section 21 (1), which stipulates that ‘every voters’ roll and every consolidated …