Inkatha Freedom Party strongman Celani Mtetwa, one of the key brokers of last week’s détente between his party and the African National Congress, will be dedicating his energies to shuttling between his party and Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini ahead of next year’s general elections.
Africa Malaria Day kicked off last week with a surprise for certain African embassies in Pretoria when a group of children delivered letters on giant postcards calling for their governments to drop the tax on mosquito nets, a preventative measure against malaria.
Her code name was Parlour Maid and since the Eighties she had been
regarded as one of the most valuable assets in the FBI’s Chinese espionage network.
The head of Ethiopia’s National Election Board has been arrested on charges of corruption and is expected to appear in court on Wednesday.
Somaliland is growing despite the international community, not because of it. It gets no loans or other assistance from the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund.
Government’s proposals for the Growth and Development Summit reflect a remarkable synergy with those of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) given the differences that have rocked their alliance.
The Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (PMA) has agreed to meet the National Association of People Living with HIV/Aids (Napwa) to facilitate discussions between Napwa and companies manufacturing medicine for HIV/Aids.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the army to resume full attack operations against the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels, formally ending a limited ceasefire that was declared in March so that peace talks could go ahead.
Seventy renegade South African chiefs have banded together to campaign for their territories to be "returned" to the kingdom of Swaziland.
The announcement last weekend that Nat Kekana, a leading African National Congress MP, will quit the National Assembly raises the spectre of a parliamentary brain drain for the ruling party.