World May 12 WATCH: White Afrikaners from South Africa arrive at Dulles airport to seek U.S. resettlement Many in South Africa are puzzled by claims that Afrikaners are persecuted and meet the requirements to be relocated as refugees.
World Mar 24 Persecution of South Africa’s whites a ‘false narrative,’ president says as Musk repeats genocide claim South African-born Musk repeated a claim this weekend in a social media post that some of the country's political figures are "actively promoting white genocide."…
Arts Mar 10 Athol Fugard, Tony Award-winning South African playwright whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92 The South African government confirmed Fugard's death and said South Africa “has lost one of its greatest literary and theatrical icons, whose work shaped the cultural and social landscape of our nation.”…
World Mar 05 Trump said ‘nobody has ever heard of’ Lesotho, but Musk is trying to do business there “It is surprising and disappointing that he claimed no one knows Lesotho, especially given that the U.S. has an embassy here,” minster Lejone Mpotjoane said, a day after Trump’s dismissive comment in a speech to Congress caused some laughter.
World Mar 04 In the wake of Trump administration aid cuts, UN food program closes its southern Africa office A WFP spokesperson says Monday the WFP had launched a plan to streamline its structure in 2023 but as “the donor funding outlook becomes more constrained, we have been compelled to accelerate these efforts.”…
World Feb 20 UK foreign secretary questions Russia’s ‘appetite’ for peace at tense G20 meeting U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia's top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who led…
World Feb 06 After Trump’s funding threat, South African president phones influential billionaire Musk South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after U.S. President Donald Trump promised to cut the country's funding over a land expropriation law.
World Jan 24 UNICEF says nearly 250 million children missed school last year because of extreme weather UNICEF says it amounted to one in seven school-going children across the world being kept out of class at some point in 2024 because of climate crises.
World Jan 16 Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police tactics Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally in the mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, since August last year.
World Dec 16 France rushes aid to Mayotte, with hundreds feared dead and hunger rising after Cyclone Chido France used ships and military aircraft to rush rescue workers and supplies to its Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Monday after the island group was battered by its worst cyclone in nearly a century.