Cyril Ramaphosa

Table Mountain and town hall lit up in honour of South Africa’s moral conscience

Tributes to Nobel Peace Prize laureate led by President Michael D Higgins

World wrap: South Africa’s president tests positive for Covid as country battles variant

Cape Town letter: many South Africans are bitter at the international community, believing their nation has been punished for its transparency

Recent rise in cases has been accompanied by a much smaller increase in admissions to ICU

Dr Angelique Coetzee says some countries are ‘panicking unnecessarily’

Country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, says his party will not enter coalitions ‘at all costs’

Rwandan troops and a military mission have been in Cabo Delgado since June and July to help the Mozambican army restore peace

Biden urges world leaders at virtual summit to ‘go big’ in closing global vaccination gap

South African president tells inquiry of fears that some security operatives had gone rogue

With Covid third wave having reached its peak, locals can at least drown their sorrows

Release of former SA president goes without incidence despite fears of unrest reigniting

Analysis of hacked phones by project reveals capacity to access data and spy on the owner

Purpose of protests and looting after Zuma’s arrest unclear as finger points to supporters

Strongly suspected the remainder of the Lions tour will now take place in Cape Town

Although widely discredited, South Africa’s 79-year-old former president fights on

Troops deployed to help police after six people killed as looting and rioting spreads

Lions squad waiting in a biosecure bubble to play hosts raises some serious questions

Former ANC leader guilty of contempt of court for failure to appear before corruption inquiry

The country moved to level four lockdown measures on Sunday night

Opening of two warm-up games against Georgia next Friday in serious jeopardy

Doctors warn of dwindling hospital beds as many nations report worst levels of infection since pandemic began

Initiative aims to scale up Africa’s access to life-saving inoculations against the disease

What is on the agenda, who is attending and will Brexit issues be sorted?

Zweli Mkhize denies any wrongdoing in the €9m Digital Vibes contract

Slow start to rollout blamed for country being unlikely to meet Covid innoculation goals

President says ruling party determined to root out the malaise

Government slow to embrace the assistance it has been offered to defeat Al-Shabaab

Days later I did the same in South Africa – where, thankfully, Covid has been less deadly than feared

Ramaphosa says country is moving to more relaxed lockdown restrictions due to ‘dramatic decline’ in cases over eight weeks

Legal proceedings against Ace Magashule and 15 co-accused postponed to August 11th

Rollout starts following delivery of 80,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson jab

Ex-president refuses to abide by court ruling obliging him to answer questions at inquiry

Access to invermectin, which was developed by Irish scientist, will be on ‘controlled’ basis

AU president Ramaphosa calls on rich nations to share vaccines with developing world

‘Vaccine nationalism’ and runaway markets also discussed on day two at Davos

One-tenth of that extra wealth could pay to have entire country vaccinated, Oxfam says

Hospital capacity and oxygen supplies running out as deaths rise during second wave

Many African nations have seen more deadly second waves of virus recently emerge

New South African Covid strain suspected of being a significant contributing factor