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South Africa’s finance minister presented Wednesday a third version of the 2025 budget after being forced to backtrack on a proposed increase in value-added tax that threatened to split the coalition government. Africa’s most industrialised nation will now look towards hiking fuel prices to cover the budget deficit, minister Enoch Godongwana told parliament. Tax revenue projections had …

Third time lucky? South Africa presents revised budgetWed, 21 May 2025 14:44:30 GMT Read More »

Two of South Africa’s top golfers and its richest businessman are in the delegation meeting US President Donald Trump Wednesday in a bid to mend tattered bilateral ties, the presidency said.President Cyril Ramaphosa will be joined by four cabinet ministers at the Washington talks that South Africa hopes will reset relations and save trade with …

S.Africa golf stars, richest man to join Trump talksWed, 21 May 2025 14:07:22 GMT Read More »

South Africa’s competition authority announced Wednesday it had approved the buyout of Africa’s largest pay TV enterprise MultiChoice by France’s Canal+, which wants to expand its footprint on the continent.The merger, which has been in the works for nearly a year, needs the final go-ahead from the commission’s Competition Tribunal, it said in a statement. Canal+ …

Canal+ buyout of S.Africa’s MultiChoice one step closerWed, 21 May 2025 10:37:58 GMT Read More »

Kenya has admitted it assisted in the kidnapping of a Ugandan opposition leader on its soil last year as he appeared in court for the latest hearing of his treason trial on Wednesday.Kizza Besigye, 68, was abducted by armed men in the heart of the Kenyan capital Nairobi in November and re-emerged a few days …

Kenya admits role in kidnapping of Uganda opposition leaderWed, 21 May 2025 09:18:13 GMT Read More »

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of white Afrikaners that the US president claims are the victims of “genocide.”The Trump administration’s admission of around 50 white South Africans last week — even as it halts refugee arrivals from most of the rest of the world — …

South Africa’s Ramaphosa to meet Trump amid tensions over ‘genocide’ claimWed, 21 May 2025 06:33:39 GMT Read More »

Tanzanian authorities have detained a leading Kenyan activist and a Ugandan journalist who tried to attend an opposition leader’s treason trial, a rights group said Tuesday.Amnesty International said that Boniface Mwangi — a prominent campaigner against corruption and police violence in Kenya — and Ugandan journalist Agatha Atuhaire were being held in “secret” after being …

Kenyan, Ugandan activists detained in Tanzania: rights groupTue, 20 May 2025 21:10:49 GMT Read More »

At a raucous comedy night in Johannesburg, no comedian could avoid cracking a joke about the chartered flight that, exactly a week earlier, took about 50 white South Africans to the United States for “refugee” resettlement.Spotting a middle-aged white couple seated in the diverse audience, 31-year-old comedian Tsitsi Chiumya pulled a theatrically shocked face.”White people! …

S.Africans joke about Trump’s claims ahead of White House visitTue, 20 May 2025 14:07:51 GMT Read More »

Clad in protective blue surgical gloves, a Dutch museum worker gingerly unhooks a precious decorative artefact before gently laying it down on a pillow and wrapping it in dozens of layers of special paper.The artefact is a “Benin Bronze”, a priceless cultural object looted from modern-day Nigeria more than 120 years ago, now being removed …

Dutch museum removes ‘priceless’ Benin Bronzes for return to NigeriaTue, 20 May 2025 10:09:44 GMT Read More »

At a clinic in Ethiopia’s capital, a donkey is complaining as a vet tries to trim his nails. Ethiopia is thought to have the most donkeys in the world — one in five of the global total according to the United Nations — and they form a vital part of the economy. So the Donkey Sanctuary, run …

A free clinic for donkeys, vital to Ethiopia’s economyTue, 20 May 2025 06:08:38 GMT Read More »

Under a mango tree in a residential area of Bangui, the filming of “Problem Booth” is under way, a series of skits imagined by Lemuel Luther-King Godonam and a few fellow comedians.Filming, then uploading the videos to build a following is an uphill struggle in the Central African Republic, a war-scarred country that is one …

Online or on stage, C.African comics try to break throughTue, 20 May 2025 05:54:26 GMT Read More »