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Zambia and China have commissioned a memorial park to honour Chinese nationals who died during the construction of the Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) railway line in the 1970s.
South Africans’ challenges like inadequate power supply, Covid-19, unemployment, gender-based violence and gun-killings could be overcome if citizens worked together to lessen the burden, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent his condolences to the people and government of Angola following the death of former president José Eduardo dos Santos in Spain, the presidency said on Saturday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has heaped praise on the late amaMpondo King Zanozuko Sigcau for his efforts at promoting development in his rural community, saying the traditional leader did not want to see only urban centres enjoying development.
Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has declared a three-day period of national mourning for late Zambian president Rupiah Banda who died last week.
The body of late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu returned to dust via “aquamation”, an environmentally-friendly process using water instead of fire only to cremate the body, APA learnt on Sunday.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday gave the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a hearty send-off at St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town, saying he was grateful to “Tutu for his efforts in helping build the nation.”
As instructed before he died, the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s remains are lying in state “in a plain wooden coffin with rope handles” at his former St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday.
Malawians are mourning the death of former First Lady Anne Muluzi who succumbed to cancer at a Kenyan hospital on Tuesday.
The late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will be granted his wish to have a simple funeral, “with the cheapest coffin available,” his foundation said on Wednesday.