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Lieutenant General Shadrack Sibiya ditched his scheduled testimony at the Madlanga Commission after claiming he got sick, and the whole thing pushed into next year since hearings wrap up this week. The suspended Deputy National Commissioner for Crime Detection was supposed to answer accusations...

Nthabiseng Tshivhenga from the EFF bailed on her Speaker gig at the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality after beefing with party bigwigs like Gauteng chair Nkululeko Dunga and fellow councillor Julius Mdluli. She ditched her council seat but stayed in the party, and they shipped her off to the...

King Misuzulu brought back Reverend Thulasizwe Buthelezi as traditional prime minister for the Zulu nation after firing him a year ago. The appointment happened at the eMashobeni royal palace in Pongola, and Canon Hamilton Mbatha swore him in right before the Umkhosi Woselwa ceremony. Buthelezi...

Floyd Shivambu from the Afrika Mayibuye Movement told reporters his party is stable after a bunch of top people bailed on him. The guy claims he kicked out weak performers who could not handle basic tasks, and he announced a new leadership crew with three deputy presidents during a press...

South Africa's condom usage tanked to record lows, and the head of the National AIDS Council is freaking out about it. Dr Thembisile Xulu says the country still has around 8 million people living with HIV, but prevention efforts took a massive hit after US funding got axed in February and COVID...

The Springboks caught a break in the draw for the 2027 Rugby World Cup after getting grouped with Italy, Georgia, and Romania in Pool B. The defending champs are chasing their third straight title in Australia, and this grouping looks way easier than dealing with powerhouses right out the gate...

Ruto pushed back on people, saying he wants to stick around for two decades after he talked about turning Kenya into a first-world nation within 20 to 30 years. He cleared things up at State House, explaining that critics twisted his words and made it sound like he wanted to stay in power that...

President Ruto told people at State House that he had to make some brutal calls to keep Kenya from defaulting on its debt. He was receiving a security report when he explained how the country was in rough shape when he took over, with inflation hitting 9.6 percent and foreign reserves dropping...

Kenya's transport officials are telling everyone to watch themselves on the roads this December while throwing more cops and mobile courts at the usual holiday carnage. Andrew Kiplagat from NTSA and traffic commandant Fredrick Ochieng laid out plans for 24-hour highway patrols with speed guns...

Oburu Oginga from ODM wants the government to finish everything on that 10-point deal Raila Odinga made with William Ruto before the next election cycle kicks off. The guy held a meeting with fresh ODM parliamentarians at Chungwa House and said the party killed it in recent by-elections thanks...

Cleophas Malala from the Democratic Citizens Party basically called out William Ruto for trying to kill Rigathi Gachagua's career and watching it blow up in his face. The guy told a crowd in Kariobangi North that getting impeached actually made Gachagua stronger, and his party just won three...

Kenya just turned Galana Kulalu into a Special Economic Zone to pull in foreign agriculture cash and juice up domestic farming operations. Agriculture Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe dropped the news while laying out plans to commercialize government land that currently sits empty, and the...

William Ruto said Kenya is getting 900 police stations built over the next couple of years since tons of communities sit miles away from any cop shop. The affordable housing program handles 300 stations while National Government Constituency Development Fund money pays for another 300, and the...

Cops in Machakos chased down a Toyota Prado that had about 474 kilograms of weed stuffed inside after the driver blew past a checkpoint near Kaloleni and took off toward Mutituni. Officers started shooting at the tires during the pursuit, and the vehicle ended up crashing into a valley close to...

Stephen Munyakho got pulled off death row in Saudi Arabia after spending over ten years locked up for killing a Yemeni coworker, and the guy says he made peace with possibly never getting out until people back home raised cash to save him. The murder conviction landed him on death row twice...

Chude Jideonwo dropped a memoir about almost driving off the Eko Bridge into the Atlantic Ocean when his depression got unbearable. The media guy behind WithChude had been dealing with what doctors finally labeled as Tourette's syndrome after years of getting the wrong diagnosis, and everything...

Dr Richard Beale from King's College London showed up at Evercare Hospital in Dhaka to help treat Khaleda Zia, who's been hanging out in the Coronary Care Unit fighting off heart and lung infections plus pneumonia. The guy is an intensive care specialist from Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...

The military is running helicopter drills near Evercare Hospital in Dhaka, where Khaleda Zia has been stuck in critical condition. Bangladesh Army and Air Force choppers will practice landing and taking off at fields next to the building as part of Special Security Force protocols since the...

Prof Mohammad Yunus dropped by Evercare Hospital in Bashundhara to check on Khaleda Zia, who's been sitting in the Coronary Care Unit fighting for her life. Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and some doctors met him when he showed up, and they all headed to the CCU, where specialists from Mount Sinai...

Chinese medical specialists keep rolling into Dhaka to help treat Khaleda Zia, the BNP leader who's been camped out at Evercare Hospital. Four more doctors showed up late at night, and Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir greeted them when they arrived. Another batch of five Chinese doctors had already...