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South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has fallen below 40% in a new poll, with just over two months to go before the country’s next general election on May 29.

Julius Malema, the left-wing radical leader of the third-largest South African political party, led a massive stadium crowd on Saturday in a vicious “liberation” chant of “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” — in other words, an explicitly racist call for massive violence against the white population of South Africa.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party on Monday downplayed $826,000 in donations from United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd., a mining company partly owned by Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.

The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, which had been governed by an opposition coalition since municipal elections last year, saw its government collapse over the weekend, a sign that the country could be led by a racist left-wing party after the 2024 election.

Julius Malema faces a hate speech trial in the South African Equality Courts over his party’s use of the anti-white “Kill the Boer” chant.

Three South African ministers were confronted by several dozen angry veterans of the anti-apartheid movement at a hotel in Pretoria on Thursday and held hostage until police intervened to rescue them. The police reported making 56 arrests in connection with the incident, seven of them women.

The founder and chief executive officer of a wealth management fund has been suspended for allegedly taking advantage of the unrest in South Africa to loot alcoholic beverages and a washing machine, among other items. 

South Africa’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday sentenced ex-South African President Jacob Zuma to 15 months in prison on contempt charges after he defied a court order to appear before a corruption inquiry examining allegations of graft during his tenure as president from 2009 to 2018.

Members of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s family and other relatives of ruling African National Congress (ANC) leaders have been profiting off coronavirus emergency relief, according to an article published by the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Saturday.

Political movements become obsessed with destroying statues and renaming streets when they run out of other ideas.

South Africa’s hotly contested election began with a literal blaze, as six especially fiery voters set an election official’s car on fire in Ganyesa on Monday.

Radical South African politician Julius Malema confirmed President Donald Trump’s concerns Thursday, declaring defiantly that the point of the country’s proposed new “expropriation without compensation” policy would be to take land from white farmers.

Theresa May’s government appears to be backing the Soviet-style policy of “land expropriation without compensation” aimed at dispossessing South Africa’s white farmers.

Contents: Zimbabwe’s post-election violence raises concerns about economy; South Africa announces plans for unpaid confiscation of white-owned farms.

South Africa’s ruling party on Tuesday slammed Israel’s recent actions at the Gaza border, comparing the IDF’s efforts to prevent Palestinian protesters from breaching the border fence with Nazi Germany’s cruelty against Jews.

Many outlets have portrayed the policy as a “white genocide,” or an attempt to push white farmers off the land. But the problem is socialism, not racism.

Contents: Moving sharply left, South Africa calls for potentially disastrous land reform; Julius Malema and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) movement

South Africa’s National Assembly passed a motion Tuesday to allow the government to expropriate land without compensation, fulfilling the wishes of radicals and black nationalists, but raising fears for the fate of the country’s white minority, as well as the future of its agricultural sector.

Cyril Ramaphosa, the head of South Africa’s majority African National Congress party, was elected president on Thursday just hours after President Jacob Zuma resigned.

Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, resigned on Wednesday in a nationwide address. Zuma was forced out by his own ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC).

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress has ordered President Jacob Zuma to resign, according to several news sources.

The handwriting appears to be on the wall for South African President Jacob Zuma. A few days after opposition leaders spoke of a plan to use massive street demonstrations to compel Zuma’s political party to recall him, South African officials said Zuma’s resignation is imminent, possibly coming as soon as Monday.

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress voted on Wednesday for an “immediate and unconditional” downgrade of its embassy in Israel at a special conference that was attended by members of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist organization.

Why should Americans care about the election of Cyril Ramaphosa to lead South Africa’s ruling African National Congress? There are three reasons.

South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa was elected to lead the ruling African National Congress (ANC) at the party’s 54th conference in Johannesburg on Monday, lifting hopes for political reform and boosting the South African rand against the U.S. dollar.

South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) will consider a proposal to sever relations with the State of Israel at its upcoming conference in mid-December.

Former South African President Thabo Mbeki declared last week that his own party, the African National Congress (ANC), “has become so corrupted that … unprincipled access to political power and the related corrupt self-enrichment has in fact become the norm within the organisation.”

Former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe recently stated that his African National Congress (ANC) party has become so corrupt it should lose the 2019 election for its own good. A few weeks later, with the ANC coming apart at the seams, political analysts believe incumbent President Jacob Zuma may postpone December’s party elections in a bid to retain power for his faction.

South Africa’s ruling party this week announced its intention of downgrading its embassy in Israel to an “interest office.”

News from South Africa is replete with new stories of corruption in President Jacob Zuma’s administration. President Donald Trump may be able to help.

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Speaking at a rally in South Africa, Hamas political chief Khaled Mashaal promised there would be more stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians, describing the wave of terror attacks as the “Jerusalem intifada,” and comparing them to South Africa’s struggle against apartheid.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court, a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president earlier this year. The International Criminal Court has “lost

In the midst of tweeting commentary (and complaints) about President Barack Obama’s press conference on Wednesday, I received an unexpected reply from Helen Zille, one of the foremost opposition leaders in my native South Africa, and a family friend.