Moody’s Downgrades S.Africa On Growth, Political Worries
Credit ratings agency Moody's on Friday said it had downgraded South Africa a notch over gloomy growth prospects and the ...
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South Africa Opposition Suspends Ex-Leader Zille Over Tweet
South Africa's main opposition, the Democratic Alliance, suspended on Wednesday its former leader Helen Zille over a controversial tweet in ...
S.Africa Opposition Suspends Ex-Leader Over Twitter Post
South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, on Saturday suspended former leader Helen Zille over Twitter messages in which ...
ANC Calls For Zuma GuptaLeaks Investigation
South Africa’s ruling party has called for an investigation into emails which appear to show allegedly corrupt links between President ...
S. Africa Risks Becoming ‘mafia State’ Warns Ramaphosa
South Africa risks becoming a "mafia state", Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa warned Sunday, calling for a corruption probe at the ...
S.Africa Court Hears Case On Zuma Confidence Vote
South Africa's highest court weighed Monday whether lawmakers can cast secret ballots in a no-confidence vote in President Jacob Zuma, ...
S.Africa Court To Rule On Zuma Confidence Vote
South Africa's highest court was to decide Monday whether lawmakers can cast secret ballots in a no-confidence vote in President ...
S.A Crisis Affects Rest of Africa – Mahama
The current political crisis and near-recession facing South Africa has an impact on the rest of the continent, especially southern ...
John Mahama On Ghana, The Gambia and the ANC’s Decline
When John Mahama stepped down as president of Ghana in January 2017, he became the first in his country's history ...
An Economy That Wobbles
BY: Ivor Agyeman-Duah If Ghana’s 60-year-old post-colonial economy had a human form, it could be on retirement with an ambivalent ...
Africa Eco Summit Eclipsed By S.Africa Political Row
Africa's flagship business and political summit being held in Durban this week has been overshadowed by a bitter fight exposing ...
South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Abandons Rally After Being Booed
South Africa's scandal-hit President Jacob Zuma has abandoned a May Day rally after he was booed by workers demanding his ...
South Africa’s Zuma Quits Rally After Being Jeered
South African President Jacob Zuma abandoned a Mayday rally on Monday after he was booed and jeered by trade union ...
Sacked South Africa Finance Minister Warns of ANC Meltdown
South Africa's former finance minister Pravin Gordhan, who was dramatically fired by President Jacob Zuma, has warned that the ruling ...
South Africa Bus Crash ‘kills At Least 19 Children’
At least 19 children have been killed in a minibus crash near the South African capital, Pretoria, emergency services and ...
Rival S.African Parties Unite At Anti-Zuma Protest
Rival South African opposition parties joined forces on Wednesday when several thousand demonstrators marched through the capital Pretoria calling for ...
Mbeki Warns MPs Over Zuma Vote
South Africa's ex-President Thabo Mbeki has called on MPs of the governing African National Congress (ANC) to act in the ...
Zuma Supporters Disrupt Memorial For Anti-Apartheid Hero
Supporters of South Africa's embattled President Jacob Zuma heckled and disrupted a speech by sacked Finance Minister Pravin Gordan in ...
South African President Brands Anti-Govt Protests ‘racist’
South African President Jacob Zuma on Monday described last week's protests demanding that he resign as racist, as he fought ...
Mourn, Don’t Criticise At Memorials, Zuma Warns Colleagues
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma on Saturday hit out at critics within his own camp telling them not to use ...