November 03
South Africa: Ramaphosa Signs Petroleum Bill As SA Lags Behind Neighbours in Hydrocarbon Race
Daily Maverick
The bottom line is that there is now at least some of the regulatory clarity that investors need for the upstream sector. How all of this is administered under Gwede Mantashe, who… Read more »
South Africa: How Far Can the ANC Go in Trashing the Constitution Before the GNU Collapses? [opinion]
Daily Maverick
Cadre deployment is in many ways at the root of the trashing of the Constitution by the ANC. It is intent on continuing this malpractice under the Government of National Unity. Read more »
South Africa: Linking LGBTQI Experiences With Gender-Based Violence Elimination [interview]
Spotlight Initiative
Spotlight Initiative speaks with Dumiso Gatsha, an activist working to eliminate the barriers between grassroots experiences and global policy-making. They are a member of… Read more »
South Africa: President Congratulates President-Elect Duma of Botswana
SAnews.gov.za
President Cyril Ramaphosa has offered his warm congratulations to His Excellency President-Elect Duma Boko and the government and people of the Republic of Botswana on the success… Read more »
South Africa: Cape Town's Cop-Gang Collusion Case Is Still With Police Watchdog As Mass Shootings Persist
Daily Maverick
Two years after a high court judge warned that the 28s gang may have infiltrated police structures in the Western Cape, investigations are yet to be finalised. Read more »
South Africa: Cybersecurity Fraud and Threats Continue At Sassa [press release]
DA
The Democratic Alliance is deeply concerned by recent reports of an international hacker group by the name of N4aughtysecGroup, which has threatened to release SASSA data obtained… Read more »
South Africa: Anti-Corruption Bill Introduced in Parliament [press release]
DA
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has introduced the Constitution Twenty-First Amendment Bill - also known as the "Anti-Corruption Bill" - to Parliament. Read more »
Mozambique: New Results Sheets Are Being Forged, Claims Mondlane
AIM
Mozambique's fugitive opposition leader, Venancio Mondlane, on Saturday night claimed that the request by the Constitutional Council for the National Elections Commission (CNE) to… Read more »
South Africa: Hundreds of Illegal Miners Arrested After Underground Food and Water Supplies Cut
Daily Maverick
The zama zamas who surfaced at Orkney over the weekend are the small fish in this big pond of criminality. The big fish have yet to be landed in the net. Read more »
November 02
Mozambique: Police Kill Demonstrators; Frelimo Offices Burned
Mozambique News Reports And Clippings
Increasingly instability in Maputo, Zambézia and Nampula Read more »
Botswana: Coalition's Duma Boko Wins Presidency
Daba Finance
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Zimbabwe: Revered Zimbabwean Historian Pathisa Nyathi Dies Aged 73
New Zimbabwe
ONE of Zimbabwe's eminent historians and novelists, Pathisa Nyathi has passed on at a private hospital in Bulawayo following an undisclosed but recurring medical condition. Read more »
Botswana: President Congratulates Incoming Botswana Leader
The Herald
President Mnangagwa, who is also the SADC Chairperson, yesterday congratulated Botswana's president-elect, Mr Duma Boko, for winning the elections in the neighbouring country. Read more »
Namibia: Mbumba Congratulates Boko On Winning Botswana Presidency
Namibian
President Nangolo Mbumba has congratulated Botswana's president-elect, Duma Boko, following his electoral victory against incumbent Mokgweetsi Masisi. Read more »
Mozambique: Mozambican Strike Affects Fuel Supplies in Neighbouring Countries
AIM
The fuel company Puma Energy Zambia has ordered its staff to park its trucks currently in Mozambique in safe places following the strike declared by fugitive presidential candidate… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Chamisa Hails Outgoing Botswana President Masisi for Conceding Election Defeat
New Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition politician, Nelson Chamisa has welcomed the smooth power transition in neighbouring Botswana, where the sitting President Mokgweetsi Masisi conceded… Read more »
South Africa: Fatoumata Diawara - A Psychedelic Journey Through Sound and Spirit At Joy of Jazz
Daily Maverick
Although the Joy of Jazz spaceship landed and departed Johannesburg a fortnight ago, looking at Vuyo Giba's photographs of Mali's Wassoulou punk-rock dervish left Bongani Madondo… Read more »
November 01
Africa: 'No, Long Covid is Not a Thing in Your Head, You're Sick' [interview]
allAfrica
allAfrica's Juanita Williams sat down with Professor Resia Pretorius, Stellenbosch University, who's been researching how blood clots form and the impact of inflammation for… Read more »
South Africa: Soccer Star Faces Charges After Fatal Crash - South African News Briefs - November 1, 2024
allAfrica
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Botswana: President Masisi Accepts Defeat
allAfrica
President Mokgweetsi Masisi has accepted defeat after Batswana voters rejected the country’s long-serving governing party at their October 30 polls. Read more »
Zimbabwe: When Will We Get Our Apology? - Mnangagwa Demands Colonial Reparations From Britain
New Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has demanded reparations and an apology from Britain over colonial injustices suffered by Zimbabweans and the lasting legacy of colonialism in the… Read more »
South Africa: Knife-Edge November - Teetering On the Climate Abyss
IPS
Standing high on the vertiginous edge of the future and looking down into a volcanic seething of approaching doom, it is a totally understandable desire to want to close your eyes,… Read more »
Lesotho: DCEO Investigates Home Affairs Recruitments
Lesotho Times
THE Directorate on Corruption and Economic Offences (DCEO) is investigating the Ministry of Local Government, Chieftainship, Home Affairs, and Police over alleged corruption… Read more »
Lesotho: Govt Loses Millions in Ha Belo Electrification Project
Lesotho Times
The government has reportedly incurred a loss of M49 million, with potential for even more losses, after the Lesotho Electricity Company (LEC) allegedly engaged an underqualified… Read more »
Zambia: Zambia Should Stop Harassing Investigative Journalist
HRW
Thomas Zgambo Prosecuted for Exposing Corruption, Rights Abuses Read more »
