South Africa
Trump freezes aid to South Africa amid spat over land expropriation law
|Published 11:45 PM ET, Saturday February 8, 2025| On February 7, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, citing concerns over the country’s new land expropriation law. This legislation, recently enacted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, permits the government to expropriate ...US-South Africa relations strain over G20 boycott
Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP/Getty Images |Published 1:15 PM ET, Friday February 7, 2025| The United States has announced that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend the upcoming G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, scheduled for February 20-21, 2025. This decision follows President Donald Trump’s recent declaration to halt ...President Cyril Ramaphosa calls Musk to calm Trump land row
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office issued this picture on social media along with a message about the call to Elon Musk |Published 10:20 AM ET, Wednesday February 5, 2025| South African President Cyril Ramaphosa recently engaged in a phone conversation with Elon Musk to address concerns over misinformation regarding South Africa’s ...South Africa not worried about relationship with US under Trump, Ramaphosa says
President Cyril Ramaphosa Story by Reuters Published 8:20 PM ET, Thursday January 23, 2025 DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – South Africa‘s President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday that he was not worried about the country’s relationship with the US under President Donald Trump. Ramaphosa said he spoke to Trump after his US election victory ...South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from besieged mine
Published 11:30 AM ET, Wednesday January 15, 2025 STILFONTEIN, South Africa (REUTERS) – At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions described as a horrific state crackdown on desperate people ...High Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
Police officers and private security personnel stand by the opening of a reformed gold mineshaft where illegal miners are trapped in Stilfontein, South Africa. Denis Farrell/AP Published 11:30 AM ET, Monday November 18, 2024 Pretoria: A South African high court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners and ...Six children died from pesticide poisoning in South Africa, lab analysis finds
October 29, 2024 | 4:30 PM ET | JOHANNESBURG: Six children who died in a South African township earlier this month had ingested a chemical compound used in pesticides, the country’s health minister said on Monday, in a case that has prompted calls for tighter food safety controls. Local media ...Women’s rights activists have responded to Chris Brown’s performance in South Africa by launching a ...
October 13, 2024 | 02:30 PM ET | American singer-songwriter and dancer, Chris Brown sold more than 94,000 tickets to his forthcoming concert in South Africa, but there has also been criticism by women’s rights campaigners of his visit to a country that has one of the highest rates of ...A “rogue” police officer is charged with killing six people
South African Police Service SPONSORED October 11, 2024 | 02:50 PM ET | A South African police sergeant was charged on Friday with killing six individuals in a series of killings that began in 2019 in order to receive insurance benefits of at least 10 million rand ($570,000). According to ...South Africa: Police say 17 people have been killed in 2 mass shootings in the ...
South Africa mass shooting: Manhunt underway as 17 people killed in two attacks at Lusikisiki in Eastern Cape province (Photo: Reuters) September 28, 2024 | 10:50 AM ET | South Africa Police on Saturday said 17 people, including 15 women, were killed in two mass shooting incidents at remote Lusikisiki city of ...