To understand what the land reform bill is really about, and why it has become so central to far-right activists around the ...

South Africa certainly had abundance. There were seemingly endless tracts of fertile farmland; rich seams of precious gold, ...

South Africa could turn to Russia or Iran to expand its civilian nuclear power capacity, a senior government minister said, a ...

In the rural villages of South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden freeze on foreign aid impacts hundreds of ...

In South Africa, a household gets 6,000 litres of free water a month. For a family of eight, this falls below the global ...

Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping all aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to white South Africans. The order decried “government-sponsored race ...

US-South Africa relations face mounting pressure under Trump's executive orders, South African entrepreneurs like Eldrid ...

South Africa is exploring new allies in its bid to expand nuclear power, with Russia and Iran emerging as possible partners. ...

Khaleda Zia, BNP chairperson, has been acquitted in the Niko graft case by a Dhaka court, following other corruption case acquittals. This clears her to participate in upcoming elections. The case ...

A new land reform law is at the centre of Donald Trump’s aid freeze on South Africa. What does it actually do? Trump’s freeze on aid to South Africa caps years of growing tension over ...

M23 rebels have advanced into the centre of Bukavu, South Kivu’s capital, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

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