Africa

Cape Town - In the hours after Thabo Bester’s escape, prisoners were ordered to scrub his cell clean with boiling water even before forensic investigators arrived at the Mangaung Prison and secured the crime scene.
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South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has described Russia as the country’s old friend, insisting that the two countries will not become sudden enemies on the demand of others. Ms Pandor made the…
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Former Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Justice Rita Makarau has been appointed as the Acting Judge of the Supreme Court in Namibia.
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Oscar Pistorius will not be released early from his 13-year-five-month jail sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, a parole board has decided.
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Several key officials at three major South African banks are helping a gold smuggling gang launder millions of dollars of dirty cash in exchange for regular bribes, an Al Jazeera investigation has found.
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South African Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius is expected to attend a parole hearing on Friday that could see him released from prison early, a decade after he killed his girlfriend. A parole board is scheduled to convene at 10:00 am…
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They operate from the shadows. Al Jazeera’s latest investigation, The Gold Mafia, brings their crimes out into the open. Last week, Part 1 of ‘Who are the Gold Mafia?‘ dove into the lives of some of Southern Africa’s biggest money…
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The South African government has decided to extend the stay of long-term visa, waiver applicants until December 31st this year. The Department of Home Affairs confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday.
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MPs in Lesotho are debating a motion to reclaim huge tracts of land from its giant neighbour South Africa. “It’s time for what is ours to be returned to us,” opposition MP Tsepo Lipholo told his fellow lawmakers.
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Botswana's government has dismissed allegations that it plans to arrest and kill exiled former President Ian Khama if he returned home. In an interview last week, Mr Khama told the AFP news agency that he had information about plans to…
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