South Africa’s Mining Production Slows, Diamonds and Platinum Hit Hardest Statistics South Africa data has shown that mining production and sales slowed by 2.6% in March 2023 compared to March 2022, reports SABC News. The largest contribution to the decline in the annual figure came from diamonds and platinum group of metals. However, on […]
British Parliamentarians have debated setting up an International Anti-Corruption Court (IACC) to freeze billions in US dollars plunder that is kept abroad by government officials, with ruling Zanu PF officials said to be prime targets. Speaking in the House of Lords, Lord Jonny Oates accused Zanu Pf of robbing Zimbabweans of a bright future due […]
Embattled Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has claimed that main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members are financially supporting his bid to challenge the ZEC delimitation report and seek postponement of this year’s elections. Mwonzora last month filed a Constitutional Court application seeking the nullification of the ZEC delimitation report gazetted in February. In […]
A health hazard is looming in Kwekwe City following vandalism of the city’s pump station infrastructure. Speaking during a recently held full council meeting Kweker Acting Chamber Secretary Athunus Chidzurira said council is putting in place security measures. This comes after thieves tied up a security guard manning Woodlands pump station and vandalised infrastructure. Chidzurira […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has approved the undertaking of nationwide audits on all mining activities in a bid to enhance widespread compliance issues expected of players in the sector. The audits will be carried out under the Responsible Mining Initiative launched Thursday on the back of abundant reports on systemic irregularities in the extractives sector. The […]
Nandipha Magudumana withdrew her application in light of “new information” The formal bail hearing for four prison officials and a CCTV technician took place on Thursday. Some of the accused claimed they were unable to support their families while behind bars. The media has been prohibited from live-streaming witness testimonies and cross-examination. Six of the […]
The US has accused South Africa of secretly supplying arms to Russia. The explosive accusation could spark a crisis for President Cyril Ramaphosa’s government, which claims to have a neutral stance on Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. On Thursday, the US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, told the media that the US government believes […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa is on the horns of a brutal political dilemma. EITHER he puts South Africa on a collision course with the United States, and threatens thousands of South African jobs that depend on exports. OR he puts himself on a collision course with the ANC, many of whose heavyweight members remain loyal to […]
Hospitals across the country have become death traps due to government’s failure to fund them, Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) officials have told Parliament. This was revealed during a meeting with the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health Wednesday at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals. The Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZINA) representatives in Harare said concerns raised by public […]
A kidney transplant, a medical procedure to replace a patient’s failed kidney with a healthy one from a donor, will begin to be performed in Rwanda on May 22 of this year, according to the Health Minister, Sabin Nsanzimana. He said this will be great progress in the country’s medical sector. Nsanzimana said that the […]
The City of Kigali has announced that 5,812 households must be urgently relocated from high-risk zones, according to an assessment as of Thursday, May 11. The decision was made in response to the deadly flooding and landslides that wreaked havoc in parts of Western, Northern, and Southern provinces earlier last week during which 131 lives […]
Nairobi — Defense Cabinet Secretary Duale has cited deceit as the greatest undoing for Azimio leader Raila Odinga terming his betrayal of close confidants in the past as political treason. Duale, first elected into Parliament on an ODM ticket, said Wednesday Odinga had betrayed his lieutenants countless times leading to the departure of key figures […]
Nairobi — The Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) has supported the move by government to regulate churches says State intervention would help tame religious extremists. Speaking during a press conference by the House of Bishops on Wednesday, Archbishop Jackson Ole Sapit noted the church will support a law that will stem the proliferation of extremist […]
Umalusi, the Council for Quality Assurance in General and Further Education and Training, has welcomed the recognition of South African Sign Language (SASL) as the 12th official language of the country. In a statement on Wednesday, Umalusi said it welcomes the adoption of the Constitution Eighteenth Amendment Bill [B1 – 2023] to amend section 6 […]
Nairobi — The Bipartisan Dialogue Committee is set to resume negotiations on Thursday to explore three proposed channels the talks should take. Committee co-chair and Rarieda MP Otiende Amollo Wednesday said the first channel is the parliamentary route but the team will consider the Executive route where the President can use an Executive Order to […]
United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk urged countries with influence in Africa to encourage Sudan’s warring sides to end the fighting that began last month. Addressing an emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Turk said the conflict has pushed “this much-suffering country into catastrophe.” “I condemn the use of violence […]
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) will launch its new and innovative Strategic Plan 2023-2027 on the 25th of May in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, during the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group. The Strategic Plan 2023-2027 provides a purpose-driven approach to capacity development, with the aim of building the required human capital […]
The Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has advised the Public Defenders Division of the Legal Aid Commission to defend the underprivileged members of the Ghanaian public, not their state employers. At the inauguration of the newly created division in Accra yesterday, he said public defenders at the office should not consider themselves […]