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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansLeaders of Sudan’s Alliance for Freedom and Change have agreed to end civil disobedience from Tuesday, three days after its launch. The civil disobedience campaign was launched after a crackdown on demonstrators by the militaryMahmoud Dr...
·almost 5 years ago
Cameroon has detained hundreds more supporters of opposition leader Maurice Kamto, who is facing treason charges after leading protests and asserting that he won last October's presidential election.The arrests happened Saturday as secur...
·almost 5 years ago
On Sunday Hillbrow was pandemonium after Metro Police officer raided the inner-city region for counterfeit goods from vendors and stalls. Gauteng police spokesperson Brigadier Mathapelo Peters said officers from the SA Police Service (SA...
·almost 5 years ago
Sudan’s military council claims to have identified the ‘rogue’ element behind the assault on peaceful protestors and a Sudanese envoy meets with Nigeria’s head of state. The deputy chief of Sudan’s ruling military council said Thursday t...
·almost 5 years ago
The head of Sudan’s ruling military council said on Wednesday it was ready to meet an opposition alliance to negotiate the country’s transition towards democracy after talks collapsed following the deadly dispersal of a protest sit-in.“W...
·almost 5 years ago
When the 32nd Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) opens in Cairo, Egypt, the focus will be on the games between the continent’s top football teams to see who is going to raise the cup on Friday 19 July at the end of the three-week tournament. ...
·almost 5 years ago
Ongoing student protests in South Africa have once again highlighted various problems with higher education funding. They boil down to challenges of affordability and sustainability. State funding of universities is inadequate – it ha...
·about 3 years ago
Dubbed the "millions march", Sunday's mass demonstrations were the first since security forces on June 3 killed more than 100 people during the bloody dispersal of a protest camp outside the military headquarters, the focal point of the ...
·almost 5 years ago
At least 11 people were killed in clashes with Sudan's security forces during mass demonstrations demanding a transition to civilian rule, Sudanese activists said Monday. Tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of the capital,...
·almost 5 years ago
Sudan's ruling military council and civilian protest leaders have reached an agreement to share power for a transition period. The plan envisages a rotating presidency and civilian-military ruling council. Mediators said progress had bee...
·almost 5 years ago
After series of delays, two sides sign accord creating power-sharing body; talks ongoing for constitutional declaration. Sudan's ruling generals and an alliance of opposition groups have signed an accord creating a transitional power-sha...
·over 4 years ago
Sudan’s deposed President Omar Al-Bashir has appeared in public for the first time on Sunday when he was taken to the prosecutor's office in charge of corruption cases in Khartoum.He was taken to the prosecutor’s office to have the charg...
·almost 5 years ago
On Friday morning the South African Broadcasting Cooperation (SABC) released a statement communication that they are putting the retrenchment process on a pause for seven days and are opening up to stakeholders to explore further option...
·over 3 years ago
Thousands of Gauteng taxi commuters were left stranded on Wednesday morning as taxi owners went on a protest demanding that government deliver on its COVID-19 relief promises. As part of the march taxi associations handed over a memora...
·over 3 years ago
The atmosphere around Brakenhall high school in Cape Town was rather tense on Friday morning as masses of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) came out to the school in numbers protesting against alleged racism at the school after repor...
·over 3 years ago
South Africa has among the highest recorded levels of social protest of any country in the world. The reasons behind this are more complex than often assumed. The scale and severity of the looting and sabotage in KwaZulu-Natal and par...
·over 2 years ago
The protests at Wits University have led to the death of one person, who was shot dead allegedly by a member of the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Wednesday, 10 March 2021. The University's Student Representative Council is lead...
·about 3 years ago
In a show of force unprecedented since South Africa became a democracy in 1994, the South African National Defence Force has commissioned 25,000 soldiers for deployment across KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, the two provinces most affected by...
·over 2 years ago
Protesters clash with police in February in Cape Town over student funding. Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images South Africa’s public order policing is as ill as it ever was. This has been illustrated in recent student prote...
·about 3 years ago
South Africa has a painful history of police using excessive force against protesters. In one of the worst incidents under the apartheid government 69 protesters were shot in cold blood by police outside a police station in Sharpeville i...
·about 3 years ago
Protests around Tembisa and Midrand have caused heavy traffic delays in the morning, Allandale road still remains closed. Residents from Klipfontein informal settlements have raised their concerns regarding poor service delivery. The res...
·almost 3 years ago