Joseph Winter

Tens of thousands of South Africans head for the Durban July after a two-year break for Covid.

President Mugabe’s situation is unclear, with gunfire heard in the Harare suburbs where he lives.

The visit of a black US president to the South African township of Soweto, heart of the struggle against white minority rule, would once have been a truly historic event, but instead Barack Obama was met largely with indifference and a few protests, writes the BBC’s Joseph Winter.

Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is seeking re-election after being in power for 28 years.