[SAnews.gov.za] Government has welcomed rating agency Standard &Poor's (S&P) decision to revise South Africa's credit rating outlook to positive from stable, while affirming the long term foreign and local currency debt ratings at 'BB-' and 'BB', res...

[Daily Maverick] Municipalities are behind the contamination of freshwater sources, admits the provincial Cogta, with the DA accusing the provincial government of failure to hold local entities to account.

[VOA] Blanyre, Malawi -- Malawi is facing acute shortages of foreign exchange currency, forcing two international airlines to suspend some of their services in the country. The situation has negatively affected the operations of many more local and i...

[The Conversation Africa] The election of Angolan President João Lourenço in 2017 raised hopes of a shift from the authoritarian and corrupt era of his predecessor. This was thanks to the new, more open and approachable style of governance he insti...

[New Zimbabwe] Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister, David Musabayana, has dismissed claims by Citizens Coalition for Change vice president, Tendai Biti that the government knowingly harboured Rwanda's most wanted genocide fugitive, Protais Mpiranya.

[New Zimbabwe] Two-thirds of children in Zimbabwe have experienced some sort of abuse and are vulnerable to mental health challenges, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced.

[New Zimbabwe] Great Zimbabwe University (GZU) media lecturer Last Alfandika has expressed concern over low voter registration amongst students at tertiary institutions as the 2023 presidential election draws closer.

[Daily Maverick] 'The Protected Disclosures Act is not worth the paper it's written on,' says Just Share director Tracey Davies. 'It is due to the bravery of whistle-blowers that the Zuma regime came to an end, yet they are not highly regarded and co...

[The Conversation Africa] As a physicist, I am trained to look for patterns in data. For example, the motion of the tiniest particles may seem random, but it contains patterns and symmetries.

[Namibian] PRESIDENT Hage Geingob is leading a lean team of ministers to the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual meeting, which starts on Sunday and runs until Thursday in Davos, Switzerland.

[New Zimbabwe] A Silobela man allegedly murdered his brother in cold blood, on allegations of abusing his son, before he vanished from their village.

[New Zimbabwe] Premier soccer league giant, Dynamos Football Club has suspended head coach, Tonderai Ndiraya over undisclosed charges.

[New Zimbabwe] A Chegutu man, Emmerson Manjengwa, has been caged three years for murdering his wife following a dispute over a roadrunner chicken.

[New Zimbabwe] Top officials at Zimbabwe Ezekiel Guti University (ZEGU) in Bindura have been caught up in a serious enrolment scandal after it emerged that some of them have been selling fake admission letters to aspiring students.

[New Zimbabwe] A European Union (EU) funded livestock project has contributed to increased milk productivity by a total of 1,2 million litres inside four months, latest data from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has revealed.

[New Zimbabwe] Leading financial services provider, First Capital Bank (FCA), has donated farming equipment worth thousands of dollars to the Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU).

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe National Roads Authority (ZINARA) has hiked toll fees by 73% in line with obtaining exchange rate dynamics.

[New Zimbabwe] Agriculture deputy minister, Douglas Karoro, will spend his weekend in jail after his bail hearing was pushed to Monday.

[SAnews.gov.za] The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is calling on community and small commercial media to apply for this year's grant funding.

[GroundUp] Education department says it will consider disciplinary steps after receiving the outcome of the criminal trial from the National Prosecuting Authority

[SAnews.gov.za] State power utility Eskom has announced a further week of stage two load shedding following the continued shortage of generation capacity at its power stations.

[SAnews.gov.za] Human Settlements Minister and Head of Cabinet's Economic Cluster, Mmamoloko Kubayi, will this week represent the South African Government at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

[SAnews.gov.za] Government has rejected a news report alleging that President Cyril Ramaphosa asked Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula to leave a meeting for being unprepared and failing to read Cabinet memos.

[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has administered a total of 2 804 COVID-19 vaccines in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of vaccines to 35 744 528 to date.

[New Zimbabwe] The Zimbabwe African People's Union ( ZAPU) has invited children below the age of 16 to write essays or poems about the life of the party's late president, Dumiso Dabengwa.

[Nyasa Times] President Dr Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera has begun preparatory meetings with members of his delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in readiness for a rigorous itinerary of engagements aimed at advancing Malawi's soc...

[Nyasa Times] Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD) and South Africa based Action Churches Together (ACT) Ubumbano have partnered with Malawian journalists in a project known as Voice Up, which exposes the various challenges communities fa...

[Nyasa Times] Vice President Salous Chilima - who also over sees public sector reforms - will next week be in the Northern region for a week to track progress of various reforms taking place in councils as well as visit various projects.

[Govt of SA] The launch of the Thohoyandou National Botanical Garden by the Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment, Ms Barbara Creecy, serves as a prime example of South Africa's commitment towards ensuring that our local communities are...

[Govt of SA] Minister Allen engages Manenberg and Heideveld residents on Manenberg shootings