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Robert Mugabe has secured his immunity from prosecution and can live safely in Zimbabwe.

Mugabe’s final offer: ‘I’ll trade Grace for power’

Even as pressure increased and right until the last hour, Robert Mugabe fought to stay in power

President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh.

Djibouti: Court turns to farce as Guelleh lays low

Opposition leader Abdourahman Boreh is expected to continue his almost comical cross-examination today as the president remains absent.

Deepening divisions in the ruling party

Emotional send off for Zambia’s Michael Sata

African leaders joined thousands of Zambians as they bid farewell to late president Michael Sata on Tuesday.

Author CA Davids. (Supplied)

Author’s Notes: CA Davids

CA Davids answers questions about her debut novel, The Blacks of Cape Town (Modjadji).

Phillip Tobias was one of the world’s leading palaeoanthropologists and one of South Africa’s greatest scholars.

RIP: Those who left us in 2012

We look back at those who died in 2012.

M&G Literary Festival 2012: Full programme
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M&G Literary Festival 2012: Full programme

The festival aims to survey what is being written in and about South Africa, its society and people.

Zakes Mda.

Faith, doubt and reflection

The University of Cape Town has conferred an honorary doctor of literature on novelist, playwright and academic Zakes Mda.

More than 1 000 temporary workers also benefited from Xuma Technologies’ skills development programme.

Women bridge the technical divide to help maintain hospitals

We feature some of those who are plying their trade at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital.