Cape Town – From SA saying it will spend R22 million on a gigantic flag; to Burkina Faso ordering Thomas Sankara killers to pay more than a million dollars in damages to his relatives… Read these and other stories making the headlines from around the African continent.
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‘A symbol of unity and common identity’ – SA to spend R22 million on gigantic flag
The Department of Sports, Arts and Culture is reportedly set to spend a whopping R22 million on a flag that is more than 100 metres in height. Read more…
Burkina orders Compaore to pay damages over Sankara killings
A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday ordered ex-president Blaise Compaore and nine others to pay more than a million dollars in damages to relatives of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and aides who were assassinated in 1987. Read more…
Senegal launches aid programme as global economic crisis hits
President Macky Sall on Tuesday announced “emergency” cash transfers to more than half a million Senegalese households to help them cope with the fallout from the war in Ukraine and the Covid pandemic. Read more…
WATCH | Duduzane Zuma wants SA to have hi-tech cities like Dubai in the next 20 years
Former president Jacob Zuma’s son and controversial businessman Duduzane Zuma has called on South Africans to work hard towards building technologically-advanced cities in the country. Read more…
Africa grapples with way forward on cybercrime
Cyber experts are urging Africa to up its game in the face of criminals targeting the continent’s fast-growing internet economy with scams and theft. Read more…
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has reportedly called for the immediate evacuation of students housed at a guest house allegedly owned by one of the suspects in Hillary Gardee’s murder. Read more…
Five dangerous prisoners awaiting trial reportedly escaped from the police holding cells at Zeerust police station, North West on Sunday. Read more…
SAA ‘a fiscal drain… it has cost SA R49 billion,’ – Godongwana tells Parliament
South African Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana has reportedly said that the South African Airways (SAA) has cost the country R49 billion in bailouts since 2007. Read more…
Traffic police motorbike fitted with blue lights and sirens stolen from employee’s home
Gauteng Traffic police are pleading with the public to help find their fully branded motorbike which was allegedly stolen from one of their employees’ home on Monday. Read more…
WATCH | Lady Du surprises her mom with a stunning Merc for Mother’s Day
South African Amapiano songstress Lady Du, real name Duduzile Ngwenya, surprised her mother with a new Mercedes Benz car on Mother’s Day. Read more…
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