South Africa
Jacob Zuma: Military deployed to tackle unrest over jailed ex-president
Reading Time: 2 minutes South Africa is deploying the military to tackle riots that have broken out over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
COVID-19: Cases in South Africa pass one million mark
Reading Time: < 1 minute South Africa has become the first country on the continent to register more than one million Covid-19 cases. It comes […]
Delegated power delivers, it doesn’t just promise
Reading Time: 3 minutes Dennis Brutus, one of my favourite poets and anti-apartheid icon has this iconic poem titled “There was once a girl.” […]
Huawei launches cloud, AI innovation centre in South Africa to serve the continent
Reading Time: 2 minutes Huawei announced the launch of a cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) centre in South Africa in a bid to drive […]
11,000 unexplained deaths in South Africa: researchers
Reading Time: < 1 minute Researchers say the figures for natural deaths are far higher than usual, suggesting thousands of Covid-19 deaths unreported.
South Africa announces record single-day 572 Covid-19 deaths
Reading Time: < 1 minute Almost half South Africa's total number of coronavirus deaths have been reported in the Western Cape province.
COVID-19 pandemic continues unabated in S. Africa, prompts warning from WHO
Reading Time: < 1 minute The COVID-19 pandemic continued unabated in South Africa, with 9,300 new confirmed cases reported in the past 24 hours, Health […]
Queues as South Africans return to work
Reading Time: < 1 minute The first working day of eased restrictions in South Africa has seen taxi ranks resume operations as commuters queued to […]
Chief buried in his Mercedes Benz, hands on the wheel
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some people live their lives colourful and large and exit the stage of life in the same pomp and lustre. […]
Algeria leads 5 African countries with highest COVID-19 deaths
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are almost 19,000 confirmed cases in Africa and at least 970 confirmed deaths across the whole continent, which has […]