AFRICA

An off-duty police officer was shot and killed in Samora Machel on Wednesday night. According to police, the officer and his two friends were sitting in a vehicle when they were attacked. The two men were injured and Constable Khanyisa Sitofile died in hospital in Lentegeur. “Twenty-nine-year-old Constable Sitofile, who …

Limpopo police commissioner, Lieutenant-General Nneke Ledwaba has expressed shock and sadness at “the continuous incidents affecting minor children in the province”. This after the Monday night gruesome discovery of the two boys’ lifeless bodies in Ga-Maupa village. “It is alleged that the deceased went missing while attending a local church …

The suspects led police to the location of the victim’s body. Police followed up on the disappearance of a Scottburgh man. They found his home splattered with blood and three vehicles missing.Three suspects were later arrested and led police to the 34-year-old man’s body.KwaZulu-Natal police have arrested three men who …

A Botswana rape victim has stunned a court procession after she opened up on getting absolute satisfaction from her abuser’s love making process and refused to testify against him. New Zimbabwe reported that prosecutors in Botswana were left stunned when one of the rape victims (name not supplied) who was raped …

A six-year-old girl identified as Aisha Ya’u allegedly was reportedly raped and murdered by unknown person in Kumashi, Kaduna South Local Government.   Her lifeless body was found dumped at a cemetery near her home on Sunday, November 8, few hours after she was declared missing. A family source, who …

More than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report. The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an “execution ground”, where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said. Several people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported. The …

Alichia Adams is one of the ladies who died in the fatal Rolls Royce crash with Zimbabwean socialite Genius ‘Ginimbi’ Kadungure. Two others who also died documented their time at the club for popular fitness bunny and socialite Mimie Moana’s birthday celebration before the accident. She was a model and …

The Nelson Mandela Foundation has “celebrated” the projected defeat of Donald Trump’s presidency and urged President-elect Joe Biden to fix the problems of “racism, sexism, xenophobia and Afrophobia”. “It is with a sense of relief that we have seen President Donald Trump defeated in the US presidential election. Like many …

South African artist and music producer Master KG of Jerusalema fame has ended the four-year domination by Nigerian artists in the MTV Europe Music Awards to win the Best Africa Act award. Master KG thanked everyone who made Jerusalema a world-wide hit. It currently has more than 220 million views …

A day after being declared Guinea’s president for a controversial third term by the constitutional court, incumbent Alpha Conde staged an hour-long walkabout in Conakry on Sunday But the 82-year-old did so with bodyguards surrounding him after his main opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo called for resistance “by all legal means”. …