South Africa News

A South African accountant who was investigating high-level corruption cases has been shot dead along with his son. Cloete Murray, 50, was the liquidator for Bosasa, a company implicated in numerous government contract scandals. He also worked as a liquidator for firms linked to the wealthy Gupta brothers, who deny …

South Africans have taken to the street to protest against high cost of living and the resignation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Amid the protest, soldiers have been deployed to help protect major infrastructure, BBC.COM reports. The president has also warned protestors against harming people and damaging of properties. Meanwhile, the …

Ghana High commission in South Africa has cautioned its citizens to avoid mass gathering etc following South Africa’s political party (EFF’s)  national protest that is coming off on monday 20th March, 2023. The mission in a statement advised Ghanaians living in South Africa to stay out from the prone areas …

South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog has cleared President Cyril Ramaphosa of any wrongdoing in a preliminary report into a cover-up scandal that has tarnished his reputation, according to local media reports. The Public Protector said it has notified implicated parties of the preliminary findings of its probe over the theft of …

Musk, the chief of companies including Tesla and Twitter, now has a net worth of $187.1 billion, according to Bloomberg. He bested LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, overtaking the head of the luxury brand conglomerate whose own net worth is $182 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Arnault had unseated …

South Africa has endured a higher level of load-shedding so far this year than any preceding it, and in late January and early February, also experienced record heatwaves across parts of the country, causing a logjam in processing dead bodies in mortuaries and crematoria. While the heat waves have since …

A municipality in South Africa says it will charge its staff members for misconduct after pictures surfaced on social media showing them sitting and sleeping on top of graves. The workers are from the municipal’s parks department – which is responsible for the cleaning of parks and public facilities, according …

Twenty people were killed and 61 others injured following a crash between an cash-in-transit armoured van and a bus in South Africa’s Limpopo province. The bus rolled off a bridge into a river below landing on its side at around 20:00 on Monday, local media reported. Most of the victims …

The family of South African rapper, Kiernan ‘AKA’ Forbes has announced Friday and Saturday, February 17 and 18th respectively for his memorial and funeral. AKA was shot and killed after partying with his friends at a restaurant in Durban to mark his 35th birthday. He will be laid to rest …

The lives of two South African musicians, Lucky Dube and AKA, were cut short by gunmen who murdered them in separate years. The wounds from the 2007 murder of Lucky Dube, the man regarded as Africa’s reggae giant remain fresh. The latest murder case involving a musician was reported on …