Cape Town – From South Africa paying official tribute to FW de Klerk; to Angola doctors continuing with a national strike over pay and working conditions… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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South Africa pays tribute to last apartheid leader FW de Klerk
South Africa on Sunday paid an official tribute to FW de Klerk, the final president of white rule, who freed Nelson Mandela from prison and steered the country from apartheid to democracy. Read more…
Angola doctors to extend national strike as Covid rages
More than half of Angola’s doctors will indefinitely continue a national strike over pay and conditions as the coronavirus pandemic’s strains the African nation’s depleted public health services. Read more…
Covid-19: South Africa records 17 154 new Covid-19 cases, 36 deaths
South Africa recorded 17 154 new Covid-19 infections, bringing the country’s cumulative number of Covid-19 cases to 3 129 623, the National Department of Health said on Saturday. Read more…
South Africa competition watchdog forces Covid test price cuts
South Africa’s competition authority said on Sunday it had reached an agreement with the two biggest suppliers of Covid-19 PCR tests to slash their prices. Read more…
WATCH | Jacob Zuma releases book to ‘set record straight’
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, accused of orchestrating the systematic plunder of government coffers during his rule, launched a new book on Sunday in which he intends “to set the record straight”. Read more…
Mali leader promises election timetable by Jan 31
The head of Mali’s military-dominated government on Sunday promised west Africa’s regional bloc he would provide it with an election timetable by January 2022. Read more…
Burkina Faso president picks ex-nuclear monitor as PM
Burkina Faso’s president Roch Marc Christian Kabore on Friday picked Lassina Zerbo, the former head of a top nuclear watchdog, as the new prime minister of the West African nation, a decree said. Read more…
Internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, author, and business mogul Vusi Thembekwayo has taken to social media to respond to allegations that he physically assaulted his wife Palesa, in an incident that resulted in his being arrested. Read more…
South African musician Bongekile Simelane, better known as “Babes Wodumo”, has cleared the air after a viral video of her hurling insults at her mother-in-law set Twitter abuzz. Read more…
‘I’m deeply grateful,’ says Eto’o after being elected head of the Cameroon Football Federation
Samuel Eto’o said on Saturday his election as president of the Cameroon Football Federation, announced earlier in the day, was “one of the proudest moments” of his life. Read more…
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