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Queen Shiyiwe Mantfombi Dlamini Zulu, regent of South Africa’s Zulu nation, has died, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi confirmed on Thursday night.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday paid tribute to late Winnie Madikizela-Mandela for her great deeds in keeping the struggle against apartheid alive in the country while her fellow leaders were either at locked up on Robben Island or in exile abroad.
South Africa’s late King Goodwill Zwelithini will be “planted” at a men-only burial ceremony on Thursday night, a prominent royal family member announced on Monday.
Tributes poured in on Friday following the death of King Goodwill Zwelithini, one of South Africa’s most powerful and influential traditional leaders who succumbed to a diabetes-related illness earlier in the day.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday mourned Zulu monarch King Goodwill Zwelithini who passed away earlier in the day while receiving treatment for diabetes.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday led his compatriots in mourning King Victor Thulare III of the Baphedi Kingdom in Limpopo Province, describing the fallen monarch as a “far-sighted” leader.
The family of the late founding President of Ghana Kwame Nkrumah has agreed to submit his artefacts and memorabilia to the Museum of African Liberation to be established in Zimbabwe, according to media reports monitored here on Thursday.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday paid tribute to late political activist Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy for his role in ending apartheid and helping to usher in a majority government led by Nelson Mandela in 1994.
Rwanda’s fourth national park, Gishwati Mukura, made up of two separate forests – the larger Gishwati and Mukura, forming a total of 34 square kilometres plus a buffer zone has been inscribed on the World Heritage List as a natural site, an official source confirmed Thursday in Kigali.
South Africa’s late human rights lawyer George Bizos was a man led by his “moral convictions and was on the right side of history,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday.