South Africa

South Africa raises interest rates to 14-year high
Central bank decides on 10th straight hike as it raises its inflation forecast for year and blackouts plague country.
Published On 25 May 2023
Rwandan genocide fugitive arrested in South Africa: UN tribunal
Kayishema, indicted by a UN tribunal on Rwanda in 2001, is alleged to have orchestrated the killing of some 2,000 Tutsi.
Published On 25 May 2023
OPINION,
Africa, don’t swallow the poison pill of austerity any more
The continent’s debt crisis is not of its making. And cutting back on public spending will only aggravate the problem.
opinion by Fabio Andrés Díaz Pabón and Thokozile Madonko
Published On 25 May 2023
South Africans blame gov’t as cholera outbreak kills 15
South Africa’s Gauteng province declared a cholera outbreak on Sunday, with 41 confirmed cases and 15 deaths so far.
Published On 24 May 2023

Pornography is not illegal in South Africa, but there are restrictions on its distribution.

Human rights and education activists say South Africa is not prioritising hygiene standards in schools in rural areas.

State power firm says it may ramp up scheduled electricity outages to avoid a national grid collapse.

Visit to Moscow follows US allegations that weapons were loaded on to a Russian ship in Cape Town in December.

President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that authorities are looking at several individuals mentioned in Al Jazeera.

US ambassador summoned after saying he was confident that a Russian ship had collected weapons from South Africa.

Sundowns’ coach, one of Africa’s best football technicians, hopes they will go far with his unique training approach.

US ambassador in Pretoria accuses country of providing arms to Russia despite its stated neutrality in the Ukraine war.

The South African is set to be the first African national to sing an opera solo at a British coronation ceremony.

The world’s largest diamond, discovered in South Africa in 1905, was given to the British monarchy two years later.

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