Browsing: South Africa

On 23 January, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the Land Expropriation Bill, introduced in 2022. This will enable the government to expropriate privately…

“I am not sorry and would do it again if I had to!” – those are chilling words of Polish far-right extremist Janusz Walus, who assassinated…

In January 1879, three columns of British colonial forces invaded the Zulu kingdom. This followed King Cetshwayo KaMpande’s refusal to adhere to a ridiculous order by…

A months-long operation by South African authorities to end illegal artisanal mining at an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein, southwest of the commercial…

Did you know that apartheid still exists in supposedly post-apartheid South Africa? The towns of Kleinfontein and Orania are Whites only. Illegal, you’d think – but…

In 2024, South Africans were among the more than 3-billion people who went to the polls in more than 60 countries in national elections. For South…

In August 2024, British seven-time Formula-1 champion Lewis Hamilton, speaking at the Dutch Grand Prix, said it was high time that African locations were added to the…

2024 marked three decades since the fall of the apartheid system in South Africa. You might think whites-only settlements are a thing of the past in…

A British migrant campaigning to separate Western Cape from the rest of South Africa says he wants to create the equivalent of an ‘Israel for the…

2024 was a year of elections. Voters in more than 60 countries went to the polls. Some incumbents hung on to power, while others got the…