SADC summit has a development-heavy agenda

At their summit in Pretoria tomorrow, heads of state from the Southern African Development Community will consider applications  from Comoros and Burundi to become the sixteen and seventeenth members of their organization. They spent today deliberating on security problems in Lesotho and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 37th SADC summit has an agenda concentrating […]

SA conundrum over Grace Mugabe’s diplomatic immunity bid dominates regional summit

Regional leaders turn the spotlight on security concerns in Southern Africa today, ahead of the SADC summit in Pretoria. The agenda of this 15-nation gathering will be overshadowed by the first lady of Zimbabwe, Grave Mugabe, seeking diplomatic immunity to avoid being charged with assault on a South African woman she found in her sons’ […]

Mugabe assault victim allegedly offered a blank cheque to drop charges

Police Minister Fikile Mbalule says law enforcement officials have been put on red alert to stop Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe from leaving South Africa. The South-African-born second wife of President Robert Mugabe allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman she  found in a Johannesburg hotel room with her sons on Sunday. Mugabe himself has  arrived in […]