South African footballer Luke Fleurs has been shot dead in a car hijacking, police say. The shooting took place at a petrol station on Wednesday night in the Johannesburg suburb of Florida. The 24-year-old Kaizer Chiefs star was waiting to be attended to when he was approached by unknown gunmen, who ordered him to get out of the vehicle. One of the suspects is reported to have fled the scene […]
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the speaker of South Africa’s National Assembly's residence was raided on Tuesday as part of a corruption investigation ordered by the National Prosecution Authority. The raid at her house in Johannesburg’s eastern suburb of Bruma drew a call from the official opposition, the Democratic Alliance, for her to step down. Earlier this month, it was reported that she solicited 2.3 million rand ($122,000) in bribes in return to […]
South Africa will hold national and provincial elections on May 29, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office has said. Ramaphosa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party is expected to face a tough challenge to retain its parliamentary majority in the country’s seventh democratic election since the end of the apartheid system in 1994. “The 2024 elections coincide with South Africa’s celebration of 30 years of freedom and democracy,” the presidency said in […]
President Bola Tinubu on Friday in Abuja met with Mr. Won Hee-Ryong, the Special Envoy of the President of South Korea, to discuss the areas in which a further expansion of investment and trade ties across key sectors of Nigeria's economy can expeditiously occur. The meeting at the State House was a follow-up to productive discussions between President Tinubu and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during the G-20 Leaders' […]
South African anti-apartheid struggle veteran Aziz Pahad has died aged 82, his family announced. He passed away at his home in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening, a statement said. The family described him as a patriot and freedom fighter who dedicated his life to the governing ANC party and serving South Africans. Mr Pahad joined the struggle against apartheid rule from a very young age. In 1964 he went into exile […]
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir pledged on Tuesday that elections, previously postponed and now scheduled for next year, would go ahead as planned, and that he would run for president. Salva Kiir, a prominent warlord, is the only president South Sudan has known since he led the country to independence from Sudan in 2011. The world's youngest country has since gone from crisis to crisis, held together only by a […]
