Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma backed a Zimbabwe-wide shutdown planned for July 31, but Zimbabweans pushed back, saying their protest movement predated her involvement.
Activist Mthobisi Gasa, a member of Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma's March and March, was shot and killed in Durban on July 2, 2026, days after the June 30 protests.
From a distance, Orania looks like any other small town in rural South Africa. In rich suburbs elsewhere in South Africa, manual work is done almost exclusively by blacks.
Dozens of bandaged patients lounge on beds in a hushed hospital ward in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, groans of pain occasionally breaking the silence. AFP has not named patients or doctors in the hospital to protect their safety.
Kholoud Massaed of the Hadaria tribe in Sudan vividly recalls the day her face was scarred with a sharp blade, an ancient practice that was once common. Tribal scarring, an ancient practice that used to be commonplace in Sudan, involves marking the skin, mainly to identify tribal affiliation or as a symbol of attractiveness.
Two police officers were killed Wednesday in Sierra Leone after a protest against "economic hardship" descended into clashes between security forces and youth demanding the president resign, the police said.
Award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga denied charges of inciting violence at the opening of her trial in Harare on Wednesday over a protest she made in July 2020 in which she called for reform.
Sikandar Raza's golden run ended with a golden duck as his Zimbabwe side lost by 105 runs to Bangladesh on Wednesday in a dead-rubber third one-day international in Harare. Hossain faced 81 balls and struck two sixes and six fours as seventh-ranked Bangladesh -- eight places above Zimbabwe -- regained some pride at the end of the six-match visit to southern Africa.
Tunisia's judicial authorities on Wednesday revoked the sacking in early June by President Kais Saied of around 50 judges, judicial sources told AFP. A June 1 presidential decree in the north African country saw Saied fire 57 judges, after accusing many of corruption and other crimes.
The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) on Wednesday launched a new lucrative $100 million Super League aimed at injecting financial muscle to the cash-strapped clubs on the continent.
Kenya is on tenterhooks as it awaits results from Tuesday's election, which passed off relatively smoothly despite some issues with malfunctioning voter identification equipment, delays at polling stations and scattered incidents of violence. The process is complicated, with results from more than 46,000 polling stations across the country to be counted, cross-checked and tallied.
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