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The EFF leader appeared in the Bloemfontein Magistrate’s Court to face charges of inciting his supporters to take over land in 2014.
The banks’ decision was influenced by ‘potentially reckless media statements’ about the Gupta family, says inter-ministerial team.
The meeting is scheduled to take place in December 2017, but party officials say they may need more time to prepare for the 2019 national elections.
The DA has reshaped the political landscape of South Africa following victories in Tshwane and Johannesburg.
For the International Criminal Court, the first trial involving a sitting president is its biggest test to date.
Alliances forged by Kenya’s presidential contenders are lining up a repeat of a ethnic-based contest that exploded in the 2007 vote.
The separatist campaign on Kenya’s coast taps into deep local grievances over land ownership and employment being in the hands of outsiders.
At least ten people were killed in grenade attacks on Sunday at two churches in Garissa, a town in northern Kenya.
At least one person was killed when a grenade was thrown into a Nairobi church on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks in Kenya.
Kenya’s electoral commission has announced on Saturday that the country’s next presidential elections will be on March 4 2013.
Kenya’s presidential hopefuls are amongst a group of people called by the ICC to stand trial for ordering rapes and murders after a disputed election.
Kenya’s elite would subvert any local tribunal that attempted to try post-election violence suspects, says the country’s ‘Iron Lady’, Martha Karua.
Somali pirates on two skiffs seized the Panama-flagged merchant ship MV ORNA after firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades at the vessel.
Provisional results on Thursday show that Kenyans voted in favour of a new constitution in a referendum that could reshape the political landscape.
A potential strike at Eskom widened after a second union said on Wednesday its members rejected a new pay offer.
The National Union of Mineworkers said on Tuesday it had rejected the latest wage offer by Eskom, but would pursue talks for now.
The NUM said it was hopeful wage talks on Monday with Eskom could avert a strike that could disrupt electricity supply during the World Cup.
The National Union of Mineworkers said on Friday it wants workers at Impala Platinum to abandon their pay strike and return to work.
Workers at Impala Platinum attacked union leaders who tried to persuade them to return to work, the company and union said on Friday.
Workers at Impala Platinum will hold a meeting to weigh the latest pay offer after talks meant to resolve a strike failed to reach agreement.
