A 27-year-old mother of two who was on the run for almost a week after allegedly killing her two children by putting rat poison in their food handed herself over to police on Saturday, Gauteng police said. A seven-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother were found by their father in their mother’s…
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), a long-time ally of the governing African National Congress (ANC), has banned President Jacob Zuma from addressing its activities. Reading from a statement at a media briefing on Tuesday following its special executive committee meeting, Coastu secretary-general Bheki Ntshalintshali said: “Comrade Jacob…
Violent clashes broke out yesterday between rival factions of Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party at its provincial headquarters in the second city, Bulawayo, the state-owned Chronicle newspaper reports. Provincial youth league chairperson Anna Mokgohla was brutally assauled by some war veterans while Bulwayo central district chairperson Magura Charumbira was stabbed in the…
A church panel in South Africa has warned that corruption is fast turning the country into a mafia state. Bishop Malusi Mpumlwana, the head of the influential South African Council of Churches (Sacoc), said President Jacob Zuma’s government had lost its moral legitimacy. Sacoc has been carrying out a commission…
The campaign group Transparency International says corruption in the Nigerian military is weakening the country’s efforts to fight Boko Haram insurgents. It accuses officials of creating fake defence contracts and stealing money meant to provide vital equipment. It says this has left the army under-resourced and insufficiently trained. A Nigerian…
Members of a Christian sect have stormed a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, freeing their leader and about 50 other inmates, a government spokesman says. Gunfire was heard near the prison in Kinshasa, as Ne Muanda Nsemi and other inmates escaped, witnesses said. He is a self-styled…
Police in South Africa say they have arrested four suspects in connection with the murder of Mandla latshwayo, a popular DJ and former actor in a local TV series, Generations. TimesLive has quoted Police Boss Khomotso Phahlane saying that the suspects are also linked to the murder of another man killed…
Mutinous soldiers have opened fire in three big cities in Ivory Coast, defying a government order to lay down their weapons. Gunfire has been heard near the presidential palace in the main city, Abidjan, the second city, Bouaké, and Daloa in the cocoa-growing west. Pro-government forces are heading for Bouake,…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least one person has died after contracting the virus in the country’s north-east, the WHO says. The Congolese health ministry had notified the WHO of a “lab-confirmed case” of Ebola, it added on Twitter. More…
The man believed to be the boyfriend of a 22 year old woman whose killing has shocked South Africa has appeared in court in Johannesburg to face murder charge local media reports. Karabo Mokoena’s mother wept as she arrived at the hearing. A widespread online campaign to find Mokoena was…