BOTHAVILLE, South Africa (AP) — Days before South Africa’s president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary new U.S ...

The meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa marks a pivotal moment in strained U.S.-South Africa relations, which have soured over diverging positions on racial equity laws and international diplomacy.

culminating this week in the United States resettling a first group of white Afrikaners that Trump claims are facing “persecution” in South Africa. “On Wednesday, 21 May 2025, President ...

“Yes, white farmers are being killed in South Africa,” political scientist Jean-Yves Camus, co-director of the Observatory of Political Radicalism at the Jean Jaurès Foundation in ...

Minister of Health, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, said South Africa has held discussions with different funders and countries in an effort to raise money to replace the US President’s Emergency Plan for ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The issue appeared to be fixed within hours. Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is under scrutiny for repeatedly referencing the "white genocide" in South Africa - a right-wing conspiracy theory - even ...

The Trump administration’s hostile approach to South Africa was shaped by a convergence of factors. White South Africans at a February rally outside the United States Embassy in Pretoria ...

Johannesburg, South Africa – On a chilly Sunday evening in Johannesburg, OR Tambo International Airport was filled with tourists and travellers entering and exiting South Africa’s busiest airport.

Musk, who grew up in apartheid South Africa, has helped spread the absurd idea, but there isn’t any strong reporting yet on whether he was trying to tinker with his AI project to make it conform ...