President Emmerson Mnangagwa has rewarded some familiar faces after approving the licensing of tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Starlink system in Zimbabwe ‘through its sole and exclusive local partner,...

The Botswana government may be clearing the way to bid for part of Anglo American’s 85% holding in De Beers, which the London-based mining conglomerate plans to divest...

Early reports of a high turnout across the country on 29 May have boosted the ruling African National Congress's hopes that it might retain its national parliamentary majority...

Given the stakes in jobs and economic growth, it's fitting that the deadline for the offer by Australia's BHP for Anglo American should fall on 29 May, election...

So serious is the prospect of it losing badly in the 29 May election that the ruling African National Congress has leant on its former leaders, including those...

After the surprise selection of Governor of Inhambane province Daniel Chapo as the ruling Frente de Libertacao de Mocambique's presidential candidate for October's general election, debate continues as...

The plethora of international military forces in Cabo Delgado province is about to shrink. The Southern African Development Community (SADC) contingent of over 2,200 soldiers, which was tasked...

For realists in the African National Congress the central question in the 29 May elections is how the party manages the end of its 30-year domination of national...

Activists and politicians across the spectrum agree on one point: opinion surveys in South Africa are often wide of the mark, undermined by poor methodology, and sometimes institutional...

The lavish and lengthy obsequies for President Hage Geingob, who died aged 82 on 4 February, turned out to be just an interlude in the drama on whether...