The Namibian home affairs ministry is phasing out the old machine-readable passports. The new biometric or electronic passports with more security features will be issued effective ... Read more »
The Department of Health amended the list of notifiable diseases to now include listeriosis following the deaths of 61 people. Notifiable diseases are required by law to be ... Read more »
Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has announced at a press briefing in Lusaka that vaccination would first be administered in cholera epicentres, Chipata and Kanyama townships. Read more »
Donel Mangena, a 16-year-old Zimbabwean teen based in the United Kingdom stunned viewers and the coaches with his cover of Major Lazer and Justin Bieber's Cold Water. His ... Read more »
Former South Africa fast bowler Makhaya Ntini has stepped down from his role with immediate effect. Ntini had held his role since January 2016. Read more »
Former foreign minister Walter Mzembi and ex-energy minister Samuel Undenge were charged with "criminal abuse of office". They both deny wrongdoing. Read more »
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ruled out forming a coalition government after visiting opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Mnangagwa came to power in November last year ... Read more »
Former president Robert Mugabe's sons Bellarmine Chatunga and Robert Junior reportedly face imminent arrest after it emerged that the country's anti-corruption commission was ... Read more »
President Jacob Zuma has offered his condolences following the death of prolific poet Professor Keorapetse "Bra Willie" Kgositsile, who died after a short illness. Read more »
The Free State Health Department has said that uncertainty over the death toll in the Kroonstad train crash is probably due to the state of some of the bodies of the victims. Read more »
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