A letter sent to a Durban newspaper – allegedly sent by members of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma’s family – contains allegations that the president’s second wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli Zuma, had an affair with her bodyguard. The bodyguard, Phinda Thomo from Dobsonville, Soweto, allegedly committed suicide when the affair was discovered. It emerged last week [...]

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Zambian President Rupiah Bwezani Banda and his administration to halt the ongoing harassment of the nation’s leading independent newspaper The Post and its award-winning editor Fred M’membe. On Tuesday, a magistrate in the capital, Lusaka, convicted M’membe on a criminal charge of contempt of court and [...]