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Now is not the time to focus on pointless meetings, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday, breaking his silence on claims that his predecessor, former president Jacob Zuma, was working with the party's secretary general, Ace Magashule, to unseat him.... Read more via News24 –...

A best man and a wedding guest died in a horrific car crash while rushing to church to … Read more via News24 – https://ift.tt/2NkTtkY Get More Nigeria Metro News

President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to host United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May in Cape Town on Tuesday. May, who is on a working visit to South Africa, is also expected to deliver the keynote address at the event on the Foreshore.... Read more via News24 South Africa –...

Approximately 20 people were injured when a plane crashed at Wonderboom in Pretoria, ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said in Tuesday. "Their injuries range from minor to critical," he said. Meiring said they had two.... Read more via News24 Top Stories – https://ift.tt/2m3W1E2 Get more...

Some say it was the theft of 300 cows, others the murders of five Muslim Fulani herders by young Christian farmers. But exactly what sparked the slaughter of... Read more via News24 – https://ift.tt/2ICxIGg Get More Nigeria Metro News

A 29-year-old woman accused of “faking a kidnapping” was denied bail in the Lenasia Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Police spokesperson Captain Hector Netshivhodza said Lerato Mosia has been charged with feigning an abduction after she went missing on June 9. It is alleged that police found her...

Lewis Hamilton roared to victory with a polished lights-to-flag drive for Mercedes in Sunday’s restored French Grand Prix to regain top spot in the world championship. The four-time world champion led from start to finish, bar one lap following his pit stop, as he claimed his first … read...

Zimbabwe’s presidential spokesperson is ruling out an election delay or a state of emergency after an explosion at the president’s campaign rally on Saturday that state media has called an assassination attempt. George Charamba told the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper that the historic July 30...

Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday he narrowly survived an attempt on his life after a blast at a party rally that injured two of... Read more via News24 – https://ift.tt/2Km20BM Get more World News

A picture of a six-year-old boy comforting his terminally ill younger sister has gone viral after it was shared on Facebook. Matt Sooter, from Arkansas in the US, posted the photo earlier this months, explaining that little Jackson was doing something “a little boy should not have to”...

Two female suicide bombers suspected to be Boko Haram jihadists killed at least three people in northeast Nigeria, emergency services said Monday. The bombers detonated their explosives inside a house and near a mosque in the Mashamari area of Konduga, 35km southeast of the Borno State capital...

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe on Monday again failed to attend a parliamentary hearing where he was due to give evidence on corruption in the diamond mining industry. Lawmakers want to question him over his 2016 claim.... Read more via News24 News – https://ift.tt/2KYh2un Get...

Flooding and strong winds caused by a tropical cyclone left at least 18 people dead and thousands homeless across two countries..... Read more via News24 – https://ift.tt/2rX4tby Get more World News

The head of the World Health Organisation said on Sunday there has been another reported case of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo and that an experimental vaccine to fight the disease is expected to become available in the country this week. Doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, …...

A woman raised the wrong daughter for 30 years after a hospital mix-up, while her biological daughter landed in an orphanage. Zoya Tuganova, 70, from Russia, gave birth to her daughter at a hospital in Chelyabinsk, a city in west-central Russia, back in 1987. Read more via News24 Top...

Former president Robert Mugabe was a victim of spousal abuse and the army even once considered giving him shelter at an army barracks, a newspaper claimed on Sunday. The Daily News on Sunday quoted an unnamed former aide saying that while Mugabe was still in power one … Read more via...