Growing fears of crackdown as Zimbabwe prepares for protestsOpponents believe the president is using the Covid-19 lockdown to suppress opposition rather than to save livesThu Jul 30 2020 - 17:33
Coronavirus: Cape Town’s poor go hungry as tourism cash dries upLetter: Conundrum of how to save lives while not destroying livelihoods is formidableMon Jul 20 2020 - 17:45
South African government under fire after reinstating lockdown measuresOpposition criticises new rules, which include a ban on the sale of alcoholMon Jul 13 2020 - 18:38
Coronavirus: Gauteng province becomes centre of South Africa’s outbreakHealth minister warns bed capacity in all provinces to be overwhelmed in weeks aheadWed Jul 08 2020 - 17:28
Coronavirus: South Africa awaits peak with ‘fatigue setting in’Minister for health ‘extremely concerned’ about public ‘letting their guard down’Tue Jun 30 2020 - 18:20
South African bank looting suspects plead not guiltySeven face charges of racketeering, theft, fraud, corruption and money laundering at VBSThu Jun 18 2020 - 17:04
Coronavirus hampering regional efforts to help Mozambique contain Islamic militantsSouthern African nations preoccupied with curbing Covid-19 threat at homeThu Jun 11 2020 - 14:59
Court orders South Africa to amend its coronavirus lockdown regulationsPretoria high court judge rules that an ‘overwhelming number’ of lockdown restrictions are unconstitutional and invalidWed Jun 03 2020 - 15:52
Coronavirus in South Africa: President Ramaphosa warns outbreak will get worseLockdown measures to be further eased from start of June despite surge in casesMon May 25 2020 - 16:36
Coronavirus: Fears of rights abuses in Zimbabwe’s indefinite lockdownRights groups concerned as three female MDC members say they were abducted and sexually assaultedThu May 21 2020 - 17:05
Covid-19 testing in South Africa: ‘If the disease comes here it will spread like wildfire’Despite early success, officials know that townships remain vulnerable to outbreakWed May 13 2020 - 18:10
Coronavirus: South Africa’s race-based relief fund faces court challengeTourism businesses are being awarded Covid-19 aid based on their compliance with black economic empowerment policiesWed May 06 2020 - 18:56
Hundreds of Cuban medics help Covid-19 fight in South AfricaMinister praises ‘solidarity’ as medical mission underlines countries’ close relationshipTue Apr 28 2020 - 15:48
Coronavirus: South Africa to ease lockdown to protect economyRamaphosa to reopen mines and some schools under phased lifting of restrictionsFri Apr 24 2020 - 17:58
Drop in violent crime more about ban on alcohol than movement restrictionsCape Town Letter: However an upswing in gender-based violence in households has been reportedSun Apr 19 2020 - 16:58
Coronavirus: South Africa extends lockdown until end of AprilOpposition DA party criticises Ramaphosa for move in terms of ‘lives versus livelihoods’Fri Apr 10 2020 - 18:46
Zimbabwe’s coronavirus fight gets help from Irish aid agenciesTrócaire and Goal assist in virus education in country hugely vulnerable to outbreakWed Apr 08 2020 - 15:23
Coronavirus: South Africa ramps up testing in townshipsGovernment sends out 10,000 volunteers in effort to contain virus ahead of flu seasonThu Apr 02 2020 - 18:19
Coronavirus: South Africa poised for lockdown as cases spiralArmed soldiers to be deployed in country with high rate of suppressed immunityThu Mar 26 2020 - 17:41
Covid-19: South African lockdown will not curb spread for ‘at least two weeks’Health minister warns public as number of cases rises to 554, increase of 102 in 24 hoursTue Mar 24 2020 - 18:20
‘Irrational and unlawful’ finding against Ramaphosa set asideInquiry last year had found South African leader should be investigated over €28,000 donationTue Mar 10 2020 - 19:01
Zimbabwe’s deepening food crisis leaves millions seeking aidCountry suffering worst food shortage in living memory despite government effortsMon Mar 09 2020 - 18:52
South Africa’s high HIV rate ramps up coronavirus fearsOver 7m HIV/Aids sufferers and poor health system raise stakes as first case confirmedFri Mar 06 2020 - 20:15
South African budget most important since end of apartheidGovernment under pressure to deliver plan that saves country from ‘economic meltdown’Tue Feb 25 2020 - 19:01
Lesotho court to decide if PM can be charged with wife’s murderLawyers for Thomas Thabane argue he should not be charged while still in powerMon Feb 24 2020 - 17:25
Lesotho PM accused of murdering first wife denies fleeing countryThomas Thabane claims he left for South Africa for a medical check-upFri Feb 21 2020 - 17:47
Mozambique insurgency drives fears of Islamist jihad in S AfricaIsis claims 23 attacks in Cabo Delgado, while some say extremism product of povertyMon Feb 03 2020 - 21:04
Isabel dos Santos: Africa’s richest woman accused of money-launderingDaughter of ex-president of Angola alleged to have mismanaged funds at oil companyThu Jan 23 2020 - 17:29
Ramaphosa’s early progress has been structural and subtleRating agencies rash to gauge South African president by economic measures alone, analysts sayFri Dec 27 2019 - 16:02
Democratic Alliance party loses control of key S African councilsAnalysts warn party may never reclaim support lost among black voter baseFri Dec 06 2019 - 19:55
Zimbabwe: Austerity, union protest and brutal crackdown‘We receive texts and messages that we are in danger and our children will be raped’Tue Dec 03 2019 - 21:15
Zimbabwe struggling to feed itself as natural disasters wreak havocThe one-time ‘bread basket of Africa’ faces a severe crisis in wake of cyclone and droughtThu Nov 28 2019 - 17:51
Zuma’s country home in peril as financial woes accumulateLiquidators seek to recoup mortgage on former South African president’s propertyTue Nov 12 2019 - 18:21
South Africans seek to harness hope after rugby victorySuccess has punctured air of national despondency by underlining togethernessFri Nov 08 2019 - 14:01
Something fishy in False Bay as great white sharks disappearCape Town Letter: Long-term absence could hurt marine environment and tourist industryTue Nov 05 2019 - 01:00
Botswana Democratic Party remains in power under MasisiIncumbents win five-year mandate in country deemed second least corrupt in AfricaFri Oct 25 2019 - 17:36
South Africa’s main opposition party leaderless and in crisisDemocratic Alliance’s top two office holders quit, leading some to question party’s futureThu Oct 24 2019 - 20:19
Fraud claims surround Mozambique polls as partial results releasedFrelimo party set for huge victory as rival Renamo among those alleging vote trickeryMon Oct 21 2019 - 20:12
South African opposition leader in the firing line amid claims of smear campaignMmusi Maimane, the first black leader of the Democratic Alliance, faces a crucial meetingThu Oct 17 2019 - 19:59
Mozambique election observer’s murder casts ‘shadow’ on pollFrelimo and Renamo factions persist in violence and intimidation on campaign trailMon Oct 14 2019 - 18:21
UN envoy calls on Zimbabwe to stop abuse of protestersZanu-PF-led government urged to adopt a human rights approach to policing demonstrationsFri Sept 27 2019 - 19:20
Mugabe family at odds with government over funeral plansZimbabweans torn in mourning for leader who ended colonial rule but ruined economyThu Sept 12 2019 - 20:52
Mugabe’s body arrives in Zimbabwe for burialFormer president’s family seeking to have him buried in home village instead of HarareWed Sept 11 2019 - 17:46
South African government accused of failing to quell xenophobic violenceTwo dead after mob goes on rampage in Johannesburg attacking foreignersMon Sept 09 2019 - 18:32
Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe dies aged 95Guerrilla leader led Zimbabwe to independence in 1980 and ruled with an iron fistFri Sept 06 2019 - 18:40
Demonstrators clash with police at economic forum in Cape TownProtestors try to confront president over plan to tackle xenophobia and femicideWed Sept 04 2019 - 19:12
South Africa: Protests and looting continues, as president calls for calmPolice fire tear gas, rubber bullets at mobs targeting migrants in JohannesburgTue Sept 03 2019 - 19:49
S African business leader’s fatal crash subject of police inquiryCEO Gavin Watson died day before questioning at tax investigation into his affairsTue Aug 27 2019 - 20:13
Zimbabwe gathering pace on rocky road to perditionLittle change one year on from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inaugurationSun Aug 25 2019 - 18:01
Apartheid-era flag outlawed by court in JohannesburgGratuitous use of South African flag from white rule period deemed hate speechWed Aug 21 2019 - 20:45
