Former President Barack Obama criticized President Donald Trump indirectly in a speech in South Africa on Tuesday — but at times, he sounded almost like a conservative.
Former President Barack Obama told an audience at a Nelson Mandela Foundation event in South Africa Tuesday marking the 100th anniversary of Mandela’s birth that income inequality and other disruptions caused by a “backlash” against globalization and liberalization were factors in the 9/11 attacks, the resurgence of populism, Chinese aggression, and the rise of President Vladimir Putin in Russia.
Labour’s Naz Shah marked the death of Winnie Mandela with an ‘inspirational’ quote from the South African activist endorsing the brutal ‘necklacing’ murders of the ’80s and ’90s.
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.
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.
TEL AVIV – The grandson of late South African president Nelson Mandela, an outspoken BDS advocate who is currently on a visit to Israel, declared the Jewish state to be “the worst apartheid regime.”
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.”
According to Lord Tebbit, “the world is a sweeter and cleaner place” thanks to the death of ex-IRA terrorist Martin McGuinness, “a coward who never atoned for his crimes”.
Former California governor and Terminator tough-guy Arnold Schwarzenegger got more than he bargained for on a recent South African safari when an elephant that his group was observing circled the vehicle they were touring in and charged after them.
Google’s homepage doodle featured artwork celebrating black history, and included a sign that said “Black Lives Matter,” long after the Islamic State inflicted deadly attacks across Brussels, Belgium.
The head of the royal household of the Zulus has landed in the centre of a political storm after he made favourable comments about the former white minority government of South Africa. King Goodwill Zwelithini spoke while visiting a cattle auction and
As a caring, sensitive, non-racist person, one of the things I often ask myself when mulling over tricky moral issues is: “What would Madiba* have done?” (* see note below) One such moral conundrum has been the killing of Cecil,
Madonna issued an apology on her Facebook page late Friday night, just hours after she came under fire for posting several altered images of civil rights leaders to social media in order to promote her new album.
Legendary pop star Madonna found herself the subject of ridicule online Friday after she altered and posted several photos of prominent black icons to social media, in an apparent attempt to link them to her new album.
Three months after the Communist mayor of a Paris suburb, Valenton, named a street, Barghouti Alley, after a convicted Palestinian terrorist, another municipality of a second Paris suburb has honored the same man.
