Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday denounced a spate of attacks on Nigerians and other migrants living in South Africa as “unacceptable and unconscionable,” especially given the role Nigerians played in bringing down apartheid.
Russia’s Rosatom state nuclear energy corporation is inking deals with African nations for nuclear reactors, including some highly unstable governments and undeveloped nations that do not require the amount of electricity generated by the plants.
South African Bishop Sithembele Sipuka has denounced the epidemic of violence against albinos, calling on the African church to employ all its resources to bring the practice to an end.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Caster Semenya won’t defend her title in the 800 meters at the world championships this fall after a Swiss court overturned a temporary ruling that allowed her to compete in international events without taking testosterone-suppressing drugs.
Johnny Clegg was an anti-apartheid musician who also, quietly, rejected pressure from the South African left to denounce Israel.
Arizona State University student and Rwandan refugee Espoir Le’dieu told Breitbart News that she likes President Donald Trump because he “believes in people,” and that leftists view her “as a puppet, that I need to be led.” Le’dieu spoke to host Alex Marlow in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily for the show’s weekly Turning Point USA (TPUSA) campus report segment.
Two-time Olympic champion Caster Semenya will race the 3,000 meters at the Diamond League Prefontaine Classic on June 30, a distance she can contest without reducing her testosterone levels.
Voters who are tempted by any of the Democrats currently in the running for president should consider that the country’s next turn to the left could well be permanent.
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.
An international sports court has ruled against a South Africa Olympian who hoped to stop sports authorities from requiring women with high testosterone to take suppressants, in order to qualify to compete.
Unrelenting rainfall reportedly prompted a section of a South African church to collapse during an Easter season service on Thursday, killing 13 people and wounding many others.
Conservation officers in South Africa found the body of a suspected poacher that they now think was killed by an elephant who trampled him. But, to add another layer to the man’s death, his body was also partially eaten by a lion.
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU), the first black trade union in Africa, by Clements Kadalie.
Sun Yaoheng became the first Chinese police chief of the South African municipality of Johannesburg and is currently in charge of a staff of over 7,600 people, a testament to the growing presence of people from China, Africa’s largest trading partner, the state-run People’s Daily newspaper reported Monday.
Things are going pretty well for Tim Tebow. Not only has the former NFL quarterback/turned baseball player been invited to the New York Mets Major League spring training, but the Florida Gators great is also engaged to be married.
TEL AVIV – “Some of the Democratic Party’s brightest new stars believe Israel is a rogue state that should be treated like apartheid South Africa.”
India’s army is expected to participate in military training exercises in March with a few African countries including Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, various news outlets reported Wednesday, as regional rival China expands its military footprint across the continent.
A court in South Africa has issued an arrest warrant for the former First Lady of Zimbabwe Grace Mugabe, after she allegedly assaulted model Gabriella Engels last year.
Brexiteer MP Andrew Bridgen called on Theresa May to oppose the South African government’s plans to seize land from white farmers during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday.
Black Friday, routinely one of retail’s busiest shopping days of the year in the United States, has spread to countries around the world. Chaotic scenes of aggressive shoppers battling one another for deeply discounted goods are making the rounds on social media Friday.
TEL AVIV – Two Jewish ninth graders from a school in Cape Town, South Africa that bills itself as Zionist were disciplined for “taking a knee” in solidarity with Palestinians while Israel’s national anthem, “Hatikvah,” was played at a ceremony.
Activists in Malawian capital of Blantyre are protesting a planned statue of Indian independence leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi because of “racist slurs” he made when he was a young man.
Contents: Namibia may follow South Africa with land confiscation without compensation; Namibia government opposition calls the land reform proposal a ‘sham’; Brief generational history of Namibia
The government of South Africa announced on Friday that President Cyril Ramaphosa secured another $10 billion in Chinese loans during his trip to Beijing last week, bring South Africa’s total economic stimulus and infrastructure financing from China up to $25 billion.
An unusual spring snowfall blanketed the Klein Karoo region of South Africa, bringing unusual scenes of elephants and giraffes on game farms trudging through a blanket of white powder.
Ernst Roets, Deputy CEO of the AfriForum civil rights group, denounced South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) and the black nationalist Economic Free Fighters (EFF) in a parliamentary hearing, branding the people behind the proposed seizure of white-owned land corrupt, racist, and hypocritical, and dismissing the “whites stole the land” narrative as “the single biggest historical fallacy of our time”.
South Africa slid into an official recession Tuesday. The main culprit was a sharp contraction in the agricultural sector, which has been under political assault this year as the ruling African National Congress has pledged “expropriation without compensation.”
Forbes magazine contributor Lorenzo Montanari notes in a recent op-ed that President Donald Trump’s tweet about South Africa’s new policy of “expropriation without compensation” has exposed that land reform policy as a Venezuela-style scam.
South African farmers subjected to land expropriation without compensation will still have to pay off their debts for property which has been seized by the state, according to a major bank.
Foreign Policy, a left-leaning publication on international affairs, obtained and published the contents of an internal diplomatic cable from the U.S. embassy in South Africa back to the State Department in Washington, DC, which “rebukes” the president for his tweet last week about land reform and farm murders in South Africa.
New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says she just wants President Trump to “destroy the media” – even if nothing else is accomplished by his administration.
Media reactions in South Africa to President Donald Trump’s tweet last week about land reform and farm murders were overwhelmingly negative. However, some columnists are beginning to conclude that Trump did the country a favor.
Author and documentary filmmaker Lauren Southern discussed why the mainstream media doesn’t want to cover the human rights crisis in South Africa during an appearance on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced her backing of the controversial South African proposal to strip farmers of their land without compensation as long as the process is done in a “legal” manner.
Editors on Wikipedia added President Trump to a list of advocates for the “white genocide conspiracy theory” due to his recent tweets about South Africa farm attacks and government land expropriation. Other prominent conservatives were also on the list such as Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, and Ann Coulter.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has written an op-ed in the Financial Times defending his country’s proposed new “expropriation without compensation” policy on land reform after criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump last week.
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.
Contents: South Africa politics roiled by Trump tweet on killing white farmers; Cyril Ramaphosa defends land expropriation policy
President Donald Trump’s comments on South Africa on Wednesday evening burst the bubble of political correctness that has long shielded that country’s leaders from responsibility for self-destructive policies that have hurt black and white South Africans alike.
The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), a liberal think tank, endorsed President Donald Trump’s criticism of that country’s new land reform policy on Thursday, saying that the U.S. president had exposed the “damage” the policy was doing.
