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South Africa’s key export industries are becoming increasingly vulnerable as climate policies like cross-border carbon taxes take hold, according to a study by Net Zero Tracker. About 422,000 ...
He condemns what he calls South Africa’s “racist” Expropriation Act, but he says “the banks expropriate the most”. Read more S. African ambassador 'no longer welcome' in the US, Rubio says ...
The heartbreaking murder of Olorato Mongale, a 30-year-old WITS student, has ignited outrage across South Africa, exposing a sinister criminal syndicate targeting women. Friday, June 20, 2025.
During the trial, one witness said Smith had told her she sold her daughter to a sangoma, a traditional healer, for 20,000 rand (£830). She added the girl was wanted for her "eyes and skin".
South Africa’s president jokes about Trump dust-up Cyril Ramaphosa said he was “bemused” when Trump played a video amplifying claims of persecution against white farmers in South Africa.
Starlink is currently unable to launch in South Africa because it must have a local entity that is 30% owned by historically disadvantaged groups.
However, South Africa’s least populated province, the Northern Cape, saw a significant increase in its murder rate, rising from 6.8 per 100,000 to 8.3.
“These are burial sites,” Trump said, pointing to his video of South Africa. “Over a thousand of white farmers.” His evidence, however, wasn’t real.
President Trump has singled out White Afrikaner farmers for U.S. refugee status, claiming they're persecuted in South Africa. But most people there say it's simply not true.
Trump’s false “genocide” claims forced race to the forefront of national conversation in South Africa in a way rarely seen since the end of apartheid.
On March 7, 2025, Elon Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who owns the space aeronautics company SpaceX and the social media platform X, claimed in a post that Starlink, the satellite ...
South Africa has made an exceptional regulatory decision allowing Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet service to operate without meeting the country’s post-apartheid Black ownership ...