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Six Escapes for Summer - With Discounted Family Adventures from Explore
Breaking Travel News
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July 31, 2025
With the school holidays fast approaching, it’s not too late to plan a family adventure over the summer break. Explore Worldwide offers a range of small group tours for adventure lovers and their mini-mes – from spotting the Big 5 in South Africa...
How Credit Reports Can Empower
Business Ghana
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Kabelo Ramaselwana, CEO of TransUnion Africa Botswana Credit reports are often misunderstood, viewed with suspicion as tools that restrict access to credit or penalise past mistakes. But when used correctly, they serve a positive and empowering...
Personality of the week
New Era
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Twanyanyukwa Antsino recently made headlines by officiating the Women’s African Cup of Nations final. She began refereeing in 2014 while playing for Namibia’s women’s team. Despite challenges in a male-dominated sport, she worked hard and gained...
Zim hosting SADC athletics championship
The Masvingo Mirror
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July 31, 2025
MIRROR REPORTER HARARE –Zimbabwe is this weekend (July 26-27, 2025) hosting the 15th annual edition of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) senior athletics championship at University of Zimbabwe (UZ) this weekend. National Athletics...
Suspect Arrested with R450,000 Worth of Dagga Near Malelane
South Africa Today
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July 31, 2025
A 29-year-old male suspect was arrested this morning after police found him in possession of dagga worth an estimated R450,000. The arrest occurred at approximately 06:25 on the R570 Jeppes Reef Road in Agriwane, near Malelane. According to police...
King Mswati says late former Deputy Prime Minister(DPM) Constance Simelane was a committed and trustworthy woman, represented by Shiselweni Administrator Themba Masuku during State funeral.
Swaziland News
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By Bongiwe Dlamini MBABANE:King Mswati says the late former Deputy Prime Minister(DPM) Constance Simelane was a committed and trustworthy woman loyal to the country. The King was speaking through his representative ex-DPM now Shiselweni Regional...
“Mswati will grab me when attending Bush Fire saying I must disclose your whereabouts”, says South African Editors Forum(SANEF) Executive member when sharing a light moment with Swaziland News editor during Climate Change workshop.
Swaziland News
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By Bongiwe Dlamini MBABANE:Reggy Moalusi, the Executive member of the South African Editors Forum(SANEF) shared a joke during the Climate Change workshop held in Johannesburg on Thursday, warning South African journalists to be careful when taking...
Harare drug kingpin convicted over 175kg of cannabis
Bulawayo 24 News
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July 26, 2025
Notorious drug trafficker Ali Allan Mamudu (55), who was found in possession of a trailer-load of 175kg of mbanje smuggled from Eswatini and headed for Malawi via Zimbabwe, has been convicted and is awaiting sentencing, which has now been set for...
CGS data centre: New seismic data centre to benefit mining operations too
Mining Review
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July 31, 2025
The new Council for Geoscience (CGS) National Data Centre (NDC) is set to play a pivotal role in providing South Africa’s network of stations, responsible for reporting on seismic activity throughout the country, with data they can use for...
South Sudan seeks sanctions relief in US deportation talks
Al Mayadeen
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July 30, 2025
The US is pressuring fragile states like South Sudan to accept deportees, offering little in return while ignoring human rights and fueling political instability. South Sudan has expressed willingness to receive more migrants deported from the US,...
Nepal improves status in digital communication, matches level- ITU report
NepaliTelecom
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July 30, 2025
Nepal has made progress in digital communication, as per a report published by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The report titled ‘Digital Development Measurement: Facts and Figures Focused on Landlocked Developing Countries’ (July...
Trump’s deportation plans get a lifeline from Africa’s youngest nation, but with conditions
Business Insider Africa
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July 30, 2025
One of the latest developments involves South Sudan—Africa’s youngest nation—which has expressed a conditional willingness to accept deportees from the United States. According to diplomatic sources cited by Politico, South Sudan has informed the...
Is Trump using Africa as a ‘dumping ground’ for criminals?
Al Jazeera
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July 25, 2025
Activists and human rights groups have accused United States President Donald Trump of using African countries as a “dumping ground” for criminals he wants to deport after five men were deported from the US to the tiny kingdom of Eswatini. On July...
Cricket team out of World Cup qualifiers
MMEGI
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July 25, 2025
Gaborone is hosting eight teams for the T20 World Cup Division Two and Botswana found the going tough in the latter stages of the competition after a bright start. Botswana started with two consecutive victories over regular punching bags Eswatini...
Airline ticket tax: Tunisia among cheapest African countries
African Manager
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July 30, 2025
Why does traveling to Africa often cost more than elsewhere? And above all, which countries on the continent impose the highest airport taxes… and which spare their travelers the most? To answer these questions, the African Airlines Association...
Malaria surges in parts of southern Africa
Semafor
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Malaria cases are surging in parts of southern Africa, according to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Botswana, Eswatini, Namibia, and Zimbabwe have reported new outbreaks in the last year, with Zimbabwe recently reporting...
BRICS, Global South and neocolonialism
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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July 30, 2025
The result of neocolonialism is that foreign capital is used for the exploitation rather than for the development of the less developed parts of the world —Kwame Nkrumah Summary Metaphors are fascinating figures of speech partly because they help...
Long live the solar power revolution
New Statesman
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July 30, 2025
This summer has been too hot. This won’t be news to you: clues include the proliferation of handheld fans on public transport, men braving the outside world shirtless and the deluge of online heatwave “life hacks”, including putting a wet towel in...
Acting Prime Minister Thuli Dladla says King wants internal solutions to end conflict in Libya.
Swaziland News
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By Bongiwe Dlamini MBABANE:Thulisile Dladla, the Acting Prime Minister says King Mswati wants internal solutions to end the conflict in Libya. The Acting PM was speaking on Thursday during a virtual meeting of the African Union Peace and Security...
RES4Africa completes executive school pilot project to localise capacity building efforts in Africa
Engineering News
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Just energy transition organisation the Renewable Energy Solutions for Africa Foundation (RES4Africa) has completed the pilot edition of the Southern Africa Executive School, which is part of its mission to localise and expand its...