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Following stagnant growth in the first quarter of the year, the latest manufacturing data paints a bleak picture for South Africa’s economic performance in Q2.
Despite these statistics, US President Donald Trump has accused South Africa of allowing a “White genocide”, claiming that Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers, are being racially ...
A few hours before South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa was subjected to a litany of false and embroidered charges by Donald Trump live on television in the Oval Office, back in Cape Town a ...
Southeast Asia’s plans to grow its blue economy – especially its fisheries sector – will not be hindered by tensions in the South China Sea, according to a senior Asean official, ...
In 2002, ASEAN member-countries and China signed the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea to ease tensions as well as ensure maritime disputes are peacefully addressed.
South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with an average of 72 a day. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The White House claimed it showed evidence of genocide of white farmers in South Africa. This conspiracy theory, which has circulated among the far-right for years, is based on false claims.
Trump has also falsely claimed that South Africa is unlawfully seizing land from South Africa’s White minority. The authorities haven’t confiscated any private land since apartheid ended in 1994.
The blog post showed to Ramaphosa by Trump during the White House meeting was published by "American Thinker", a conservative online magazine, about conflict and racial tensions in South Africa ...
The South African president had reportedly intended to address trade issues and other tensions between his country and the United States, such as the soon-to-expire Africa Growth and Opportunity ...
National mineral resource organisation Mintek has welcomed the official release of South Africa's Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy by Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe.