Lusaka – Business tycoon and opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema was on Monday declared winner of the hotly contested presidential election in debt-burdened Zambia.
With 155 of 156 constituencies reporting, official results showed Hichilema had captured a landslide of 2,810,757 votes...
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A maize plant is seen among other dried maize at a field in Hoopstad, a maize-producing district in the Free State province, South Africa, on January 13, 2016.
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South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday condemned ongoing attacks and vandalism targeting the road freight industry, days after protesters demanded that companies stop hiring foreign nationals as truck drivers.
Several trucks suspected to be driven by foreign nationals have...
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday condemned ongoing attacks and vandalism targeting the road freight industry, days after protesters demanded that companies stop hiring foreign nationals as truck drivers.
Several trucks suspected to be driven by foreign nationals have...
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 54 more COVID-19 related deaths and 772 new infections on Monday night, which take the death toll in South Africa to over 19 465.
This makes South Africa’s COVID-19 death toll to...
Zindzi Mandela was born in 1960, just a year-and-a-half before her father was first incarcerated for anti-government activities.
Zindzi Mandela, the daughter of South African anti-apartheid leaders Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela, died Monday morning in the hospital at the...
The former leader of Angola’s Unita rebel group, Jonas Savimbi, is being reburied 17 years after his death.
Thousands of former Unita fighters wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with images of Mr Savimbi attended the ceremony in his home village of...
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FACTSHEET: South Africa’s 2014/15 murder and robbery crime statistics
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The state-run broadcaster reported that...
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