[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africa's former president, Jacob Zuma, is on his way to hand himself over to prison authorities, his foundation said late Wednesday.

[Daily Maverick] Minutes before midnight, Jacob Zuma's foundation announced: 'Dear South Africans and the World. Please be advised that President Zuma has decided to comply with the incarceration order.'

[VOA] Harare -- Rights groups in Zimbabwe are expressing concern about vulnerable groups after authorities imposed a new, strict lockdown to curb a spike in coronavirus infections. The restrictions come as Zimbabwe's number of confirmed infections ha...

[Namibian] THE Office of the Labour Commissioner at Walvis Bay has slapped ArcticNam Fishing, which was managed by Fishrot-linked Iceland company Samherji, with a N$1,8 million fine to compensate 23 Namibian fishermen who were retrenched in 2018.

[Miss South Africa] Meet the Miss South Africa Top 30 vying for the title of Miss South Africa 2021 and vote for your favourite to make the Top 10.

[The Conversation Africa] A fire at one of the biggest public hospitals in Johannesburg, the Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, and the delay in reopening the facility has brought infrastructural issues into sharp focus. The fire broke ...

[New Zimbabwe] Following his unmatched vocals in his new duology, Zviriko and Uchandifunga, signalling his slow return to the music scene, Roki has cemented his position bagging 1 million YouTube views in just four days.

[AIM] London -- The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday warned that, without urgent funding, one of the world's fasting growing displacement of people, in northern Mozambique, risks becoming a hunger emergency.

[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Tuesday announced 1,458 new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease, making this Mozambique's worst day so far, since the start of the pandemic.

[Namibian] MULTINATIONAL corporations registered in Luxembourg are believed to be using a loophole in the country's tax system to circumvent European Union (EU) transparency regulations and underpay tax.

[Namibian] THE Women's Leadership Centre has thrown its weight behind Namibian athletes Christine Mboma and Beatrice Masilingi, saying their exclusion from the Tokyo Olympic Games amounted to sexism and racism.

[The Herald] Zimbabwean industries have to provide cheaper and better quality goods to the domestic market while shedding their "arrogance" in regional markets if trade liberalisation is to succeed.

[The Herald] (Excerpts of interview with Cde Albert Nguluvhe)

[Nyasa Times] Jessica - a 14-year-old Standard 5 pupil at one of the public schools in Traditional Authority (T/A) Msakambewa in Dowa - is torn apart.

[Nyasa Times] Chancellor College Academic Staff Union (CCASU) has become the latest movement to oppose the controversial amendments to the Labour Relations Act, arguing that the proposed laws are aimed at empowering employees to mute their workers du...

[Nyasa Times] The Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in the Synod of Livingstonia on Wednesday morning conducted a memorial service for late Dr Kenneth Kaunda , former president of Zambia whose father migrated from Malawi.

[Nyasa Times] Three members of staff at Central East African Railways (CEAR) were sent on suspension following their arrest on trumped up charges -- whose court case was eventually withdrawn at the instructions of the company's top management that in...

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa on Wednesday recorded 21 427 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the number of infections in the country to 2 112 336 since the outbreak of the virus.

[GroundUp] About 50 people flooded out of their homes in Covid informal settlement in Cape Town have taken refuge in a zinc church in Bloekombos.

[GroundUp] Residents of Siqalo informal settlement have asked the City of Cape Town to provide them with solar-powered electricity while they wait for housing.

[GroundUp] Study was conducted in January and May, before the third wave peaked

[GroundUp] In the coastal region of the Amadiba Tribal Authority, a community's resistance to a controversial mining development is being channelled towards a new campaign: vote the ANC out.

[Nyasa Times] Tonse Alliance government's stand to amend the Labour Relations laws continues to attract mixed reactions with the Employer's Consultative Association of Malawi (ECAM) supporting the contentious proposal that will mandate employers to d...

[Nyasa Times] With effect from Thursday, July 8, MultiChoice Malawi will be changing the customer care line number to three simple digits, 527 -- in what the company says is an effort to further optimize their customer service at all key touch points...

[RFI] South Africa's former president, Jacob Zuma, turned himself into police early Thursday morning to begin serving a prison sentence for contempt of court.

[The Herald] All is set for the International Poetry and Music Day dubbed "Long Night of the Poets", which will be hosted virtually tomorrow in accordance with the Covid-19 restrictions.

[Daily Maverick] Former president Jacob Zuma kept South Africans in suspense -- and awake -- until the eleventh hour, but when news broke that he had been taken into custody about 40 minutes before midnight, they reacted with a mixture of sympathy, r...

[Daily Maverick] The statement of the ANC published on Tuesday in response to the public show of support for Zuma on Sunday at Nkandla is a demonstration of how, step by infinitesimal step, the balance of power in the party has changed fundamentally.

[Daily Maverick] A video of Gauteng Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi recommending a traditional Chinese remedy to cure Covid-19 is circulating on local social media. The product in question has not been proven to have any efficacy in treating Covid-19 an...

[Daily Maverick] After years of public hearings, multiple debates and several versions of the anticipated amendment to section 25 of the Constitution, the latest proposal by the ANC has left us with more questions than answers.