South Africa

South Africa’s African National Congress party, which has held nearly unchallenged power since the end of apartheid in 1994, is on track for a historic loss of support in this week’s election.

South African police on Thursday said they were investigating the killing of a foreign national at the hands of a mob in the coastal city of Durban.

Multiple human rights activists accused 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay, a former U.N. high commissioner for human rights, this weekend of having used her position at the global agency to help China persecute Uyghur people.

President Donald Trump lamented in a social media post that he and the United States were not awarded the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

The Trump administration plans to cap next year’s refugee inflow at 17,500 people, down from the 125,000 target set under President Joe Biden.

The Ministry of External Affairs of India condemned “malicious post son social media” on Thursday, responding to rumors circulating on Twitter that genocidal Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and ally President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa had fallen ill after dining at the Indian-hosted BRICS summit this weekend.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday announced visa restrictions for South Africa, due to “laws or policies that enable uncompensated land seizures, race-based discrimination, and/or the incitement of imminent violence against members of minority ethnic or racial groups.”

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday issued a formal apology to the president of Mozambique, Daniel Chapo, for violence perpetrated against Mozambican nationals during South Africa’s recent anti-migrant protests.

The South African Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday it has written to the governments of Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria to request reimbursement for the $18 million cost of repatriating thousands of illegal migrants.

A former spokesman for the government of Ghana named Palgrave Boakye-Danqah, joined by security analyst Emmanuel Kotin, has submitted a petition to the International Criminal Court asking it to investigate xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals in South Africa.

South African soccer star Jayden Adams has died, only weeks after he and his national team completed a successful World Cup performance in the United States.

South African police arrested a man wanted by British authorities on suspicion of killing his wife and two young daughters in England after tracing him to Johannesburg, police said Friday.

South Africa’s Border Management Authority has documented over 50,000 migrants leaving the country in the past year, the new agency Ground Up reported on Wednesday.

South Africa deployed thousands of police officers and soldiers across the country as huge anti-migrant protests broke out on Tuesday — the date set by vigilante groups as a deadline for all illegal immigrants to leave the country, or face dire consequences.

Shops, commercial centres, office buildings and public spaces were shut down across South Africa on Tuesday as residents stayed home while fears mounted that planned nationwide anti-migrant protests would descend into violence.

Migrants awaiting processing for deportation at a community hall in the eastern South African city of Durban staged a protest on Wednesday and wound up in pitched battle with police, who used rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the crowd.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday evening that his government will take major steps to crack down on illegal immigration, including the creation of an “Intelligent Population Register” that “contains biometric data for every person in the country.”

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday announced new measures to crack down on illegal migrants amid tensions following a series of anti-migrant protests accusing his government of not doing enough on the matter.

The Malawi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday it will begin repatriating its citizens from South Africa due to a wave of anti-immigrant violence.

Sky News on Thursday spoke with Martin Antsee, a former police officer who was aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius during the deadly hantavirus outbreak. Antsee was airlifted to the Netherlands for treatment, and remains in isolation.

The Nigerian government on Monday summoned South Africa’s top diplomatic envoy to complain about “xenophobic” anti-migrant protests, following in the footsteps of a similar complaint from Ghana and Mozambique.

Over 300 people marched against mass migration and undocumented immigrants in Pretoria, South Africa, on Tuesday.

South African opposition leader Julius Malema was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday for illegally possessing and firing a gun.

South Africa’s second-largest party, the Democratic Alliance, elected Cape Town’s mayor Sunday to lead it into the 2029 national polls, stepping up its drive to take votes away from the faltering ANC.

Six-time convicted felon Hunter Biden is $17 million in debt and has self-deported overseas, according to his former attorneys suing him for unpaid legal bills.

A South African civic group called March and March held a rally in the city of Durban on Wednesday to call for tougher immigration laws and stronger border controls. The group was particularly critical of migrants from Nigeria, denouncing them as parasitic and prone to crime.

The International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) announced on Friday that it will impose heavy tariffs on Chinese steel, after an investigation found evidence of product dumping.

A report issued by Kenyan intelligence on Wednesday found that over a thousand Kenyans were recruited with false promises of good jobs in Russia, but then sent to fight on the bloody battlefields of Ukraine.

The government of South Africa on Friday declared Ariel Seidman, charge d’affaires of the Israeli Embassy, persona non grata and gave him 72 hours to leave the country.

South Africa on Tuesday confirmed that it will withdraw from the Group of 20 (G20) economic forum for the year 2026, because the United States holds the rotating presidency for the year, and relations between Johannesburg and President Donald Trump have been tense.

The Chinese Defense Ministry confirmed on Friday that its military, alongside those of Russia and South Africa, would engage in drills known as “Will for Peace 2026” off the coast of South Africa.

Nine people have died and at least 10 others were wounded after a group of gunmen carried out a shooting at a South African pub during the early hours of Sunday, authorities said.

WASHINGTON–The State Department said South Africa will face “severe consequences” if it does not hold accountable its own authorities who detained United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) officers, whose identities were later exposed on Wednesday.

South African immigration police on Tuesday raided a U.S. refugee processing center in Johannesburg and arrested seven Kenyans who were allegedly working there illegally, along with two U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) officers.

A mass shooting at a bar left at least 11 people, including three children, dead in a township near the South African administrative capital of Pretoria, police said on Saturday.

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.