[allAfrica] Cape Town --  

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Internet giant Google is celebrating the 151st birthday of Charlotte Maxeke, popularly known as the "Mother of Black Freedom". Maxeke was a scholar, an evangelist,  a political activist, as well as an advocate for women's r...

[Thomson Reuters Foundation] Durban -- From Johannesburg to Durban, community WhatsApp groups have thrived during the pandemic, but they can feed paranoia, racial profiling and vigilante surveillance, researchers say

[The Conversation Africa] It was 1914 when the English explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set sail on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition aboard a ship called Endurance. It was an ill-fated journey: the ship got trapped in the ice and eventually crus...

[The Herald] The Zimsec 2021 November A-Level results released yesterday, inclusive of the Continuous Assessment Learning Activity, show a 3,68 percent rise in the overall pass rate compared to the previous examination year.

[Nyasa Times] Government says it will not be pushed to hike fuel pump prices in the country.

[SAnews.gov.za] President Cyril Ramaphosa says government has made a concerted and concrete effort to rebuild the South African economy following the devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on global economies.

[The Herald] UNITED States-based Zimbabwean motocross rider Tanya Muzinda has been named among top 100 inspirational women for 2022 by the influential UK-based magazine -- March8.

[New Zimbabwe] FOLLOWING speculation that the late former president Robert Mugabe's son, Robert Jnr, is set to contest for a position in the highly influential Zany PF youth league, party heavyweights and service chiefs are lining up their own childr...

[New Zimbabwe] ZANU PF leaders in Masvingo, straight from an electoral drubbing by opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have blamed non-governmental organisations (NGOs) for the party's dismal showing at last month's by-elections.

[New Zimbabwe] A ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) ranger and a police officer are in trouble after they were caught in possession of 28kgs of ivory worth ZW$703 574.

[New Zimbabwe] THE Zanu PF Mashonaland Central provincial leadership hasp has negotiated with new Ran Mine investors to delay the eviction of 500 families residing at the mine compound following a 48-hour notice issued by the High Court for them to v...

[The Herald] ZIMBABWE's Ambassador to Sweden, Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga, was yesterday admitted as a lawyer of the High Court, taking the oath of loyalty and office before Justice Happias Zhou with 14 other lawyers in Harare.

[The Herald] The High Court has blocked Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) from awarding a tender for SAP software application services to Tano Digital Solutions (Private) Limited, pending determination of what one bidder called a "restricti...

[AIM] Maputo -- Mozambique's former Labour Minister, Helena Taipo, on Tuesday denied all the charges against her in the case of 113 million meticais (about 1.8 million US dollars, at the current exchange rate) stolen from her Ministry in 2014-15.

[Nyasa Times] Mangochi Police Station has registered a decrease in crime by 23 percent in the first quarter of 2022 which is a positive development in policing matters.

[Nyasa Times] Benevolent Malawi President Dr Lazarus Chakwera on Tuesday donated 10, 000 kilograms of maize flour to the Department of Disaster Management affairs (Dodma).

[Nyasa Times] Chief Government Spokesperson and Minister of Information and Digitalization, Gospel Kazako, has assured the media fraternity in Malawi that the government will investigate the circumstances that led to the arrest and detention of Platf...

[Nyasa Times] Government officials were on Tuesday conspicuously missing from former president late Bingu wa Mutharika's memorial service in Thyolo, raising concerns over deepening political rivalry between the opposition Democratic Progressive Party...

[The Herald] The new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, about 25 kilometers north west of the capital, is now complete with the Chinese contractor putting final touches outside the structure, a Cabinet Minister said on Tuesday.

[New Zimbabwe] President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a tribunal to probe High Court judge Justice Edith Mushore's suitability for office after she allegedly went AWOL.

[New Zimbabwe] The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Tuesday allotted a total US$32,8 million through the Foreign Exchange Auction system as the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industry (CZI) threw its weight behind the central bank's recently introduced infl...

[New Zimbabwe] A polling station was allegedly dismantled on the eve of the by-election in Mutasa South National Constituency election, leading to the disenfranchisement of hundreds of voters which may have held sway in the result, it has emerged.

[New Zimbabwe] Opposition Zapu is mooting demonstrations against the Bulawayo city council's exorbitant parking fees.

[Times of Zambia] Health Minister Sylvia Masebo has cautioned society against discriminating against people with tuberculosis (TB).

[Nyasa Times] Minister of Water and Sanitation Abida Mia has said the government's initiative of free water connection will only apply to people seeking domestic and not commercial use.

[Nyasa Times] Malawi will on Friday launch Education Plus Initiative at the High-level Intergenerational Dialogue on Generation Equality and Women's Leadership.

[Nyasa Times] Economics commentators say the early opening of this year's tobacco market is evidence that the country is in desperate need of forex supply.

[Nyasa Times] The Malawi government has announced it will not smile at parastatals that are failing to make profits and remitting 40% to government coffers.

[Namibian] COHEN Fistball Club will host the second Bank Windhoek League match day in Windhoek on Saturday at 08h00.