Channel Africa’s Khumbelo Munzhelele rounds up the news that made headlines this week.
On the programme this week: South Africans head to the polls, the country's sixth democratic general election since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Namibian President, Hage Geingob, declares a state of emergency in all the regions as a result of the drought that the country is facing.
South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, says the implementation of a new peace agreement and formation of a government of national unity cannot be in November this year due to logistical problems.
And, Police in Ghana arrest 81 people accused of supporting the declaration of an eastern region as an independent country.