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Zimbabwe’s RTGS Outage: How a 24‑Hour Glitch Froze the Nation’s Payments System
A Nationwide Halt to Digital Transactions On 18 August 2025, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) announced it was experiencing a “technical…
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Half the Nation, Half the Story: Will South Africa’s National Dialogue Truly Hear Women?
A new table — but will the seats be equal? When President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the National Dialogue initiative in…
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The Forgotten 11%: How Bureaucracy and Borders Erase South Africans
Earlier this year, Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber stood before the National Council of Provinces and issued a stark warning:…
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BIKO: Young, Gifted And Black
Some in paying tribute to Biko would incur the title 'Young, Gifted and Black" on Biko as it is fitting…
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SA Parliament on Fire
CAPE TOWN: ON Sunday morning, South Africans woke up to the news that Parliament was in flames. And Parliament’s Presiding…
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Mozambique
Mozambique (/ˌmoʊzæmˈbiːk/), officially the Republic of Mozambique (Portuguese: Moçambique or República de Moçambique, Portuguese pronunciation: [ʁɛˈpuβlikɐ ðɨ musɐ̃ˈbikɨ]; Chichewa: Mozambiki; Swahili:…
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Robert Sobukwe
Robert Sobukwe“Africa for Africans”President of the Pan Africanist CongressIn office6 April 1959 – 1963Succeeded byPotlako LeballoPersonal detailsBorn5 December 1924Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province,…
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Lesotho
Lesotho, officially the Kingdom of Lesotho (Sotho: ‘Muso oa Lesotho), is an enclaved country within the border of South Africa.…
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia (Tonga: Cisi ca Zambia; Nyanja: Dziko la Zambia), is a landlocked country in Southern–Central…
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UN agency keeps Africa food aid flowing amid coronavirus
HARARE (Reuters) - The United Nations food agency has negotiated a humanitarian corridor to keep food aid flowing in southern…
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S.Africa records second coronavirus death as infections jump to 1,280
South Africa’s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 93 to 1,280 people…
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Bantu peoples
Bantu are the speakers of Ntu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast…
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Namibia’s urban poor are stuck in limbo, without land or services
Informal settlements are increasingly emerging in cities in developing countries across the world, including Africa.
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Robert Mugabe dies aged 95
Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's first post-independence leader, has died aged 95.
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