Browsing: South Africa

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…

Many will remember 2024 for South Africa’s landmark g*nocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In January, the ICJ issued a provisional…

According to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), 64 per cent of Black South Africans are living in poverty. However, only one per cent of…

On 16 December, South Africa’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party marks its first year of existence. Since its formation, the new political force has been riding high,…

Africa needs a permanent voice at the UN Security Council, but it won’t make much difference for ordinary Africans given the unimaginative political status quo plaguing…

Three African nations are already part of alternative-economic-order project BRICS – and Nigeria wants to be the fourth. It’s also looking to join the G20 -…

The US government had Nelson Mandela on terrorist watch list until 2008, 14 years after he became president of South Africa. Why, you might ask? Because…