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The dragging corruption trial of South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma resumes on Monday despite deadly violence that swept the nation after his imprisonment…

Some 117 people have died and many others have been injured in the violent unrest in parts of South Africa over the past week, according to government figures from Thursday.…

As South Africa’s worst public violence in decades swept Johannesburg and its biggest township this week, Nhlanhla Lux was ready to defend the shopping centre he…

Looting is not just an African disease, it is a global pandemic which the world must jointly abolished. Looting was experienced in US during the "Black lives matter" protest that took place a year ago, Looting was recorded during the "ends…

About 72 people have now been killed in the violence that erupted in South Africa, following the imprisonment of ex-President Jacob Zuma. TheCable had earlier reported that…

The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) says it is set to deploy soldiers in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces to assist law enforcement in their efforts to calm the ongoing…

Sporadic violence has erupted in South Africa, with dozens arrested after looting in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, where ex-president Jacob Zuma is in…

Geoff Makhubo, the mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, has died after contracting COVID-19.  Mlimandlela Ndamase, the spokesman of the city, said Makhubo was…

South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, who on Thursday began a 15-month sentence for contempt, will be eligible to be released on parole in…

Some Twitter users have taunted Jack Dorsey, Twitter founder and CEO, asking him to replicate the support he gave Nigeria’s #EndSARS protesters for #FixTheCountry…

No fewer than 136 students in a high school have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service has confirmed. During the latest national COVID-19…

Two persons were shot dead following a clash between #FixTheCountry protesters and the military in Ghana. The youths were said to have been protesting rising…

Jacob Zuma, former president of South Africa, has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt of court. Zuma, on Tuesday, was found…

South Africa will tighten COVID-19 restrictions for 14 days as current containment measures are insufficient to cope with the speed and scale of new infections,…

New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) has shown that COVID-19 cases in Africa are surging by over 20 percent week-on-week as the continent’s third wave gains pace and nears the first wave peak of more…

Zambian President Edgar Lungu has declared 21 days of national mourning in honour of the country’s first President Kenneth Kaunda, who died on Thursday. Secretary…

Kenneth Kaunda, the founding president of Zambia, has died at the age of 97. The former president’s death was announced by Zambian media on Thursday afternoon. He was on…

South Africa, which is struggling to roll out its inoculation programme as it enters a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic, said Sunday it will pull millions of doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine…

South Africa has officially entered its third wave of coronavirus infections, health authorities said, with rising caseloads and a sluggish vaccine rollout fuelling fears of…

Mali’S military commander Assimi Goita, who removed a transitional president and prime minister last month, has been sworn into office as the new interim president despite facing a diplomatic backlash over his second…