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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has deployed a technical fact-finding team to the kingdom of eSwatini to engage with the stakeholders following recent political and security disturbances.
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DURBAN. – Shop workers in a South African town hit by ongoing riots foiled looters by pouring cooking oil on the floor outside the entrance to their store.
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GABORONE. – At a time when funding for fossil fuel projects is drying up, Botswana is racing to develop six new coal mines and a rail link for exports, with the government prepared to put its own money into the projects.
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Legendary musician and songwriter Tshepo Tshola has passed away.
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CAPE TOWN – Vaccines and chronic medication haven’t been spared in the ongoing looting with scores of pharmacies destroyed in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. The Independent Community Pharmacy Association (ICPA) said that close to 50 pharmacies had been completely looted, including thousands of vaccines. She said that this would have a terrible impact on the supply […]
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JOHANNESBURG. – Violence and looting has raged in South Africa for the sixth day running, stoking fears of food and fuel shortages as disruption to farming, manufacturing and oil refining began to bite amid the country’s worst unrest in decades.
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The rand tumbled against major currencies on Monday as riots over former president Jacob Zuma’s arrest sprung up in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng – disrupting public transport and forcing businesses to close their doors for fear of looting. The local currency dropped by as much as 2 percent against the dollar, with the market rattled by […]
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JOHANNESBURG. — The South African police said yesterday that they arrested 62 people in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng Province as people protested against the incarceration of former President Jacob Zuma.
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Recently incarcerated former president Jacob Zuma would be treated like every other prisoner by wearing orange overalls, using the public phones available at the facility and eating the food served to all prisoners.
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PRETORIA. – South African police said yesterday they were ready to arrest former president Jacob Zuma, who has been slapped with a 15-month jail term, unless ordered otherwise by the country’s top court. On Tuesday, lawyers for the police wrote to the Constitutional Court seeking to pause an order to arrest Zuma given what they […]
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LUSAKA. – Zambia’s founding president, Kenneth Kaunda, was yesterday laid to rest at Embassy Park, a special cemetery dedicated for the country’s leaders. Kaunda ruled Zambia from 1964, when the southern African nation won its independence from Britain, until 1991. He died on June 17 at a military hospital in Lusaka. President Edgar Lungu yesterday […]
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LONDON. — English Premiership club Brighton & Hove Albion have signed Zambia international midfielder Enock Mwepu from reigning Austrian champions Red Bull Salzburg on a four-year deal, the club announced on their official website. The 23-year-old becomes Graham Potter’s first signing ahead of the 2021/22 English Premier League campaign, which will be Albion’s fifth consecutive […]
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SADC will soon dispatch a second mission to the Kingdom of Eswatini to engage all stakeholders following receipt of reports of political and security disturbances, the Chair of the SADC Organ Troika on Politics, Defence and Security and Botswana President Dr. Mokgweetsi Eric Keabetswe Masisi said.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says rising metal prices will play a significant role in driving the recovery of the economy from the current Covid-19 downturn, which has seen unemployment rise to record levels, as the country battles a new surge in infections.
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Suspected members of a feared Islamist militia killed 10 people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Beni overnight, the army said Thursday, prompting an anti-government protest with youths parading a victim’s body in the streets.