The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday that South Africa will take a “commercial break” from the Group of 20 (G20) forum over the coming year because the rotating precedency has passed to the United States under President Donald Trump.
Nonkululeko Patricia Mantula, a 39-year-old host on South Africa’s SAFM state radio network, was arrested and brought into court on Monday to face charges of recruiting South African men to fight for Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine.
The G20 was mostly empty theater, haunted by the looming sense that President Donald Trump was correct about the amount of geopolitical influence the U.S. can wield through trade policy.
South African police announced on Sunday that they are investigating Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, daughter of former President Jacob Zuma, in connection with a plot to lure South African men into fighting for Russia on the battlefields of Ukraine.
The Group of 20 (G20) summit in Johannesburg, South Africa began on Saturday with an “opening declaration” despite the U.S. boycott and several other national leaders choosing not to attend.
European leaders are set to meet in South Africa on Saturday to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine seen as favoring Moscow, while a top Ukrainian delegation prepares for direct talks with Washington.
South Africa has been preparing for a disappointing Group of 20 (G20) summit in Johannesburg this weekend that would be missing the leaders of the United States, China, Russia, Argentina, and Mexico — although President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed on Thursday that the U.S. might rescind its boycott and attend after all.
The government of South Africa will host for the first time the G20 Summit over the weekend with the United States, the group’s most powerful member, notably absent.
South Africa said on Monday that it will no longer accept chartered flights carrying Palestinian refugees. South African Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola accused the Israeli government of pursuing “a clear agenda to cleanse Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank.”
The Foreign Ministry of China announced on Thursday that Premier Li Qiang will represent China at the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, confirming that communist dictator Xi Jinping is skipping the event.
The government of South Africa on Thursday announced an investigation into how 17 of its citizens became mercenaries on the battlefields of Ukraine. The men are sending “distress signals” pleading for rescue, and their families claim they were tricked into fighting.
A professional ethics panel found United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng guilty of unprofessional conduct for racist and profane remarks, and ordered her to pay a fine.
South Africa apologized to the UN’s Francesca Albanese after it allowed American Christians to serve her with legal papers in a defamation case.
A South African woman was tortured on her farm by burglars who heated a kettle of boiling water and smashed it against her face, intending to do even worse before breaking the kettle and continuing to steal.
Anti-Israel activists in South Africa are planning protests at a local Holocaust museum to demand that it recognize the recent Gaza war as a “genocide,” comparable to the Nazi murder of six million Jews.
South Africa was pointedly absent from the Gaza peace summit that convened Monday in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, despite its experience in conflict resolution, after its strident opposition to Israel.
Julius Malema, the leader of the radical anti-white Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, was found guilty Wednesday of violating South African firearms laws by firing a rifle onstage during a 2018 political rally.
South Africa’s ambassador to France, formerly a long-serving cabinet minister, was found dead on Tuesday at a Paris hotel in what is being treated as a possible suicide, the Paris prosecutor said.
The desire of the United Nations to control artificial intelligence (AI) and use it to shape public discourse was once again expressed on Tuesday, when the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) kicked off its “AI for Africa Conference.”
The 2025 U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) will likely be dominated by the drama over European states unilaterally declaring Palestinian independence, but it will also be an important week for the BRICS economic collective, which has positioned itself as an alternative to the post-World War II international order led by the United States and Europe.
The United Nations (UN) Independent [sic] International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory [sic], including East Jerusalem [sic], and Israel, headed by Navi Pillay, accused Israel of “genocide” on Tuesday.
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) introduced legislation Monday to punish South Africa for its anti-American policies, creating a companion bill to House legislation introduced earlier by Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX).
President Donald Trump said this weekend that he will not personally attend the G20 summit in South Africa in November, but will send Vice President JD Vance instead.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a speech on August 29 in which he praised Zimbabwe’s bloody policy of “land reform,” which targeted white farmers for murder, displaced one million black farm workers, and led to a famine that starved millions more.
Newell’s suspension illustrates the climate of anti-Israel hysteria to which media outside the U.S. are typically expected to conform.
A South African environmental services company called Drizit, hired to help clean up the spill of toxic waste from a Chinese copper mine in Zambia in February, issued a statement on Friday that claimed the mine owners are concealing the full extent of the massive ecological damage from the incident.
South African National Defense Force Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya inspected an Iranian special forces unit last week, despite efforts by the South African government to minimize the importance of his visit.
South Africa’s presidential spokesman told reporters Thursday that President Cyril Ramaphosa was unaware of the visit that South African National Defense Force Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya paid to Iran earlier this week.
South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) is trying to walk back statements by South African National Defense Force Chief General Rudzani Maphwanya on a visit to Iran.
Gen. Rudzani Maphwanya, chief of the South African National Defense Force, met in Tehran with his opposite number, Maj. Gen. Amir Hatami.
The human rights situation in South Africa has “significantly worsened,” leading to further abuses of minorities — an issue President Donald Trump has raised — Breitbart News has learned.
South Africa has failed to prevent President Donald Trump from raising tariffs on its goods to 30% — despite an Oval Office visit from President Cyril Ramaphosa and what its diplomats say was their best efforts.
South Africa’s leading foreign policy bureaucrat is offering excuses for failure as the August 1 deadline for a trade deal with the U.S. looms, blaming an American focus on “non-trade” issues like Black Economic Empowerment (BEE).
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A high-level delegation from South Africa is currently in Beijing, seeking to increase bilateral trade and secure more Chinese investments before U.S. tariffs of 30% on South African exports take effect in August.
The Nelson Mandela Foundation in South Africa, devoted to the legacy of the legendary post-apartheid leader, has offered grants to groups that vow to combat Christian Zionism, calling it a force for “genocide.”
United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese made a public appearance on Tuesday in Bogotá, Colombia, following the State Department announcing sanctions on her for years of pro-Hamas, antisemitic rhetoric, delivering a speech calling for the destruction of Israel’s economy.
The African nation of Lesotho declared a two-year “state of disaster” this week over “high rates of youth unemployment and job losses,” which have ostensibly been exacerbated by uncertainty over President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin warned fellow members of the anti-American BRICS coalition during the group’s summit this week to work to strengthen their respective nations as “the liberal globalisation model is becoming obsolete.”
South Africa found itself one of 14 countries slapped with large tariff increases by U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday as a punitive measure for lack of progress in negotiations, and now faces a 30% duty.