[The Conversation Africa] We are living in the plastic age. Plastics are literally everywhere: clothes, furniture, computers, phones and more contain plastic materials. It's no wonder, then, that the food we eat, the water we drink and even the air w...

[Premium Times] South Africa won all six matches in Morocco en route to becoming African Champions.

[New Zimbabwe] Micro as well as small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have been called upon to make use of cheap locally available raw materials to manufacture unique products for export markets.

[New Zimbabwe] Members of Parliament (MP) have expressed outrage at the repeated failure to attend House of Assembly business by some cabinet ministers and accused the Executive branch of government of disrespecting the Legislature.

[New Zimbabwe] Warriors striker Tino Kadewere has emerged as a transfer target for Turkish giants Galatasaray and La Liga club Real Valladolid as he edges closer to leaving French club Lyon ahead of the new season.

[New Zimbabwe] A key member of the clique that planned and executed President Robert Mugabe's ouster through a 2017 coup has said his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa will not cede power to deputy Constantino Chiwenga as was allegedly planned.

[Daily Maverick] Less than a day after he was elected as leader of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, Siboniso Duma faced his first test -- to persuade conference delegates to allow party president Cyril Ramaphosa to speak without being booed, heckled or dist...

[Nyasa Times] Government has described the 2022 Africa Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) as a success in bringing out tangible and practical solutions to the challenges affecting the people.

[Nyasa Times] Member of Parliament for Neno North, Thoko Tembo, has emphasized the need for policymakers and internet rights activists to advance the accessibility and affordability of internet services in Malawi.

[Nyasa Times] Minister of Education Agnes NyaLonje has urged African nations to engage in digitilizing education to meet digital skills and human Capacity development needed in the continent.

[CAF] South Africa are the new Queens of Africa.

[Daily Maverick] So, wage growth in the mining sector almost doubled the rate of inflation between 2001 and 2020. In 2001, the average earnings per employee per year stood at R59,874. By 2020, that had reached R335,096, a five-and-a-half-fold increas...

[Daily Maverick] Struggling consumers will face greater financial pressure after the South African Reserve Bank announced on 21 July that interest rates would increase by 75 basis points (bps), taking the repo rate to 5.5% and the prime lending rate ...

[Daily Maverick] A confident majority of the 1,607 delegates to the ANC's elective conference in KwaZulu-Natal expressed their support for former president Jacob Zuma when they voted in former provincial youth league president Siboniso Duma as the pr...

[Daily Maverick] Team South Africa is raring to go at the Games in Birmingham this week.

[Daily Maverick] Banyana Banyana clinched their maiden Women's Africa Cup of Nations crown on Saturday 23 July, finally ending a wait of two decades for the title of African Queens.

[Daily Maverick] Coetzee has been writing poetry and singing since he was a child, spurred on by his mother's readings to the family of action-driven narrative poems and by his two older sisters' enthusiasm about reading to him. He has won the 2022 I...

[Daily Maverick] The 'I Am' movement cannot be ignored. Backed by nearly 7,000 health workers, it is calling for concrete changes to systemically fix the falling-apart public healthcare system. Caught in the doldrums of bureaucracy and government ina...

[Daily Maverick] The public show of support for former President Jacob Zuma displayed by delegates at the ANC's KwaZulu-Natal conference over the weekend demonstrates just how different the province is from the rest of the country. The fact that the ...

[Daily Maverick] At least 23 people have been shot dead in or around taverns across South Africa this month with the grisly count increasing overnight after two people were killed in Ga-Rankuwa, Tshwane on the evening of Friday 22 July.

[Daily Maverick] New leaders of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal were announced in the early hours of Sunday and they are not allies of party president Cyril Ramaphosa. A completely new leadership - from former president Jacob Zuma's 'Taliban' slate - now ru...

[GroundUp] Mass suspensions of dissenting office bearers ruled "invalid" and "unconstitutional"

[Premium Times] The Super Falcons despite creating a myriad of chances failed to score against the resolute Zambians

[Namibian] DYSFUNCTIONAL airports at Namibia's top tourist markets might limit the number of flights coming to Namibia, thereby limiting tourist inflows into the country, until the situation has been resolved.

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- South Africans waited with baited breath once again, in anticipation of the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee announcement on an interest rate hike on July 21, 2022. Everyone knew it was inevitable given the state of t...

[New Zimbabwe] A STAND-OFF between the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) and Chinhoyi municipality has threatened to trigger a water crisis after power was switched off at the council water treatment and pumping stations.

[IPS] Bulawayo -- Faced with cyclical droughts and low water levels in supply dams, Zimbabwe is turning to boreholes for relief, raising concerns about already precarious groundwater levels across the country.

[RFI] Morocco skipper Ghizlane Chebbak on Friday hailed her teammates for the way they had changed views about women's football during their surge to the final at the Cup of Nations.

[The Conversation Africa] There is unlikely to be consensus on what José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola's former longtime president who died earlier this month in Barcelona, Spain, will represent in the memory of Angolans.

[VOA] India and Namibia have signed an agreement to bring cheetahs to the forests of the South Asian country, where the large cat became extinct 70 years ago.