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Gaborone. — Botswana’s capital city Gaborone has returned to normalcy after all the probable coronavirus cases registered last Friday tested negative, an official said on Monday. Mosepele Mosepele, deputy coordinator for the southern African country’s Covid-19 Presidential Taskforce Team, made the announcement during a virtual media briefing that was broadcast live on national television, Botswana […]
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Cape Town. — Premier Alan Winde has said that the Western Cape Department of Health has received the recommendations of the Ministerial Advisory Committee and is finalising the clinical protocols for the use of Dexamethasone. The premier said that researchers in the UK have released positive initial findings around the use of the steroid Dexamethasone […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — South Africa’s rand firmed against the dollar early yesterday, but traders said gains could be limited as concerns about a resurgence of global coronavirus cases and geopolitical tensions in Asia hurt risk appetite. At 6:40am, the rand traded at R17,1775 per dollar, 0,36 percent firmer than its previous close. “The rand, along with its […]
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has today announced the easing of restrictions on restaurants for sit-down meals, accredited and licensed accommodation, conferences and meeting for business purposes, cinemas and theatres.
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DAR ES SALAAM. — President John Pombe Magufuli has ordered that all schools across the country be reopened at the end of this month. He gave the directive during a speech at the dissolution of the 11th parliament on Monday. The order comes weeks after universities and other institutions of learning resumed teaching and learning […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — Sam Nzima is best known for taking the iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, his sister Antoinette Sithole and Mbuyisa Makhubu during the Soweto Uprising on June 16, 1976 — 44 years ago. June 16 every year is Youth Day to pay tribute to those brave students who protested for equal education and freedom […]
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MASERU. — Lesotho’s former prime minister Thomas Thabane paid a team of hitmen from a notorious local gang a down payment of more than US$20 000 to kill his estranged wife, according to police statements. The cash was alleged to be the first instalment of a much larger sum — approximately $180 000 — that […]
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LUSAKA. — Zambia is looking for a new mobile-network operator to compete with existing providers after a company part-owned by Angolan billionaire Isabel dos Santos failed to set up operations as planned, Transport and Communications permanent secretary Misheck Lungu said. Zambia’s telecommunications regulator awarded UZI Zambia, the local unit of Unitel International Holdings, the licence […]
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Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has died of a heart attack, according to the government.
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The Covid-19 crisis has provided an opportunity for government to reform its state-owned enterprises, so much so that President Cyril Ramaphosa is optimistic about the future of troubled entities SAA and Eskom.
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ZANU PF and war veterans have called upon the international community to demand justice for the slain black man who met an agonising death at the hands of a white police man in the United States.
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FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday told United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Brian Nichols that the country had no role in the violent protests spreading in the US following the shock murder of an unarmed black man by a white police officer.
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The Government of Zimbabwe notes with astonishment and concern the comments made by Robert O’Brien, US National Security Advisor, which characterised Zimbabwe as “an adversary” of the United States and which named our country as one seeking to take advantage of the current unrest situation in the US in order to “sow discord and to try to damage our democracy”.
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The recent death of George Floyd a black American at the hands of police brutality in Minneapolis, United States of America has shaken the world in more than one way.
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JOHANNESBURG. — ‘Generations: The Legacy, which has been losing some of its best talent to other TV shows over the years, has been forced to shop for new talent.