Chatunga Mugabe, Co-Accused Appear in Court as Missing Gun Mystery Deepens

They say old folk tend to behave like children. In recent weeks, South Africa as a nation had a front seat in this theatrical and toxic tantrum of South Africa’s oldest serving parliamentarian and nonagenarian.

This soap opera of politics, draped in bitter entitlement, better understood in a tantrum, spares no one. It invokes the dead monarch against the living; it pits a monarchy against a democracy, ‘decades of experience’ at the expense of the new. It deliberately conflates theREAD MORE

THE killing of more than 40 people, a majority of them students, by a rebel group in western Rwanda has triggered global outrage.

Among those killed are 37 students. Others were abducted during the attack, blamed on the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), on Lhubiriha Secondary School in the Mpondwe area of Kasese District.

To add more misery, the attack occurred on Friday, when the annual Day of the African Child was commemorated.

“This was a heinous and unconscionable act ofREAD MORE

A US$900 000 ($17,1 million) contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) will boost food security and improve the livelihoods of nearly 9 000 people in southern Zimbabwe.

Communities in the Chiredzi district will benefit from the funding provided by Japan as the WFP rolls out resilience-building activities.

Funds will enable WFP to provide food assistance while at the same time
stimulating local development through the construction of small-scale infrastructure such as small dams and nutrition gardens, the provision
ofREAD MORE

THE move by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to grant banks authority to determine their own foreign exchange (fx) trading rates has shaken the financial markets.

Analysts believe the move strongly indicates the devaluation of the Nigerian naira and its vulnerability to market forces. The announcement led to intense volatility in the fx markets, with naira quotes ranging from US$1:₦470 to ₦755.

FBN Quest believes depending on where rates eventually settle, the move
could potentially narrow or eliminate theREAD MORE

THE travails faced by Zula Zula Adventure Bus depict the lack of support faced by up-and-coming players in the hospitality sector to establish their industries.

It is also a reflection how these small and medium enterprises (SMEs) overcome such challenges, through resilience. Zula Zula derives its name from the Zulu word translating to, “Wander about everywhere.”

The company went literally anywhere in search of support, to no avail, which was compounded by its formation during the COVID-19 when the industryREAD MORE

NEW DELHI, June 18 (Xinhua) — The death toll in India’s devastating trains mishap on June 2 has risen to 291, after one of the victims succumbed to injuries in a government hospital, confirmed a government official Sunday.

The accident involving two passenger trains and one goods train occurred in Balasore area of the eastern state of Odisha. It was described as the worst ever train accident in recent years. A total of 287 people died instantly in the rail crash,READ MORE

BEIJING, June 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People on Monday.

Xi pointed out that the world needs a generally stable China-U.S. relationship, and whether the two countries can find the right way to get along bears on the future of humanity. The Chinese, like the Americans, are dignified, confident and self-reliant people, and they both have the right to pursue a better life, heREAD MORE

The Fifth EAEU-ASEAN Business Dialogue has discussed opportunities for EAEU and ASEAN cooperation in the new economic reality and prospects for the implementation of infrastructure projects that would promote trade and economic ties between the member states of the two integration alliances.

It was held on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) on Thursday 15 June. 

The year 2023 marks the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Eurasian Economic CommissionREAD MORE

The National Department of Health is in the process of investigating Mpumalanga clinicians who failed to take specimens of patients who presented with cholera symptoms but simply gave them painkillers.

This follows a number of cases that African Times investigated in Bushbuckridge, where water challenges have plagued some townships and villages for months.

Residents of Dwarsloop township started receiving water after they embarked on a protest that was televised on SABC news.

However, the quality of the water has worriedREAD MORE

The chairperson of the Mpumalanga Ingoma Forum, Musa Thugwane, has urged would-be initiates to undergo medical screening first before they go to the initiation schools to help prevent “unnecessary deaths”. 

He said medical examination and records would make the job of the health practitioners and the caregivers easier because some of the initiates often suffer from different diseases such as asthma and HIV. 

The forum was launched a few years ago by the Mpumalanga Department of Health to oversee theREAD MORE