Belgium on Thursday granted Kenya 733 550 euros ( 000) to fund a water project in the Kenyan Rift Valley district of Baringo, officials said.
National Assembly Speaker Dr Frene Ginwala will write to ANC MP Winnie Madikizela-Mandela asking her to attend a sitting of the House so that she can be publicly rebuked for contravening Parliament’s code of conduct.
Johnnic Holdings announced on Thursday it had abandoned plans to sell off its media and entertainment arm, Johnnic Communications (Johncom).
Israeli troops ripped through Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early on Thursday, killing 11 Palestinians and wounding around 140 during a five-hour-long raid, a day after 15 people were killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in Israel.
Shares in London-listed South African IT group Dimension Data plunged to eight year lows on Thursday after a trading update by the company’s Asian subsidiary Datacraft Asia.
Eighty seven people, most of them pensioners, who were arrested during a protest outside the home of the Johannesburg mayor last year, were acquitted on charges of public violence by the Jeppe Regional Court on Wednesday.
Almost two years ago, then ANC Chief Whip Tony Yengeni stood defiant before his peers in the National Assembly and protested his innocence, but on Wednesday he quit Parliament in disgrace.
Twenty-six fans were arrested for carrying banners and political messages during the World Cup match between Zimbabwe and Pakistan, lawyers and police said on Wednesday.
The main witness in the treason trial of Zimbabwe’s opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who faces a hanging sentence for allegedly plotting to kill the president, said on Wednesday the politician was mad.
Zambia plans to spend more than -million on cleaning up contaminated lead and copper mine sites, a lawmaker announced on Wednesday.