South Africans have voted in a national election that could be the country’s most hotly contested in 30 years
May 29, 2024
South Africans will vote Wednesday to decide whether their country takes its most significant political step since it brought down apartheid and achieved democracy 30 years ago
May 27, 2024
The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time
May 25, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has criticized the country’s highest court and his former allies in the ruling African National Congress over his disqualification from next week’s election
May 23, 2024
South Africa’s African National Congress rose above politics for years
May 22, 2024
Former South African President Jacob Zuma has been disqualified from running for a seat in Parliament in next week's national election because of a previous criminal conviction
May 20, 2024
South Africa’s election will determine how weary the country has become of the ruling African National Congress party, which has been in power since the end of apartheid 30 years ago
May 17, 2024
After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National Congress will face its toughest election this month as most opinion polls predict it will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time
May 15, 2024
Rescue teams in South Africa are searching for any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed
May 13, 2024
Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have brought out more survivors as the operation entered a second night of desperate work to find anyone alive in the mangled wreckage
May 07, 2024
A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the apartment block at least four years before the blaze
May 06, 2024
South African police are investigating if former President Jacob Zuma’s new political party forged supporters’ signatures to register for national elections next month
April 30, 2024
South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27
April 27, 2024
Congo’s government is questioning Apple about the tech company’s knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into supply chains
April 25, 2024
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the country’s former leader to court
March 19, 2024
South Africa’s foreign minister says her country’s citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home
March 13, 2024
The United Nations’ refugee chief has raised a new alert over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique
March 07, 2024
Where the buffaloes roam can be a problem in South Africa
March 05, 2024
The South African navy has been brought in to help with a search for a 6-year-old girl who has been missing for two weeks in a case that has captured national attention
March 04, 2024
Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May
February 24, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly anticipated national election will be held on May 29
February 20, 2024
Aid organizations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major city and leave millions of people struggling for food and medical help
February 19, 2024
The South African government says it has lodged an “urgent request” with the U.N.’s International Court of Justice to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah are a breach of provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide
February 13, 2024
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confronted some of his country’s deep problems in his annual State of the Nation speech in Parliament on Thursday
February 08, 2024
A man has been arrested hours after he claimed responsibility for starting a building fire in South Africa last year that killed 76 people while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had killed
January 23, 2024
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