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South African news sources reported Sunday that the government had begun taking farmland without compensation with the attempted expropriation of two game farms in Limpopo, the country’s northernmost province, home to Kruger National Park.

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

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in South Africa as a guest of the BRICS annual summit on Thursday, celebrated that his nation had tripled the number of its embassies in Africa under his rule.

Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping offered a rousing defense of globalism and suggested “the evolution of global governance system will have a profound impact on the development of all countries” during Wednesday’s opening of the BRICS summit in South Africa.

Chinese Communist Party head Xi Jinping landed in South Africa Monday night for the third leg of his regional trip and spent Tuesday negotiating with President Cyril Ramaphosa, ultimately signing a million-dollar investment deal with his country.

Speaking in South Africa this week, Barack Obama said that no one should tell white males that they lack standing to speak on certain matters.

Former President Barack Obama on Wednesday told young African leaders in Johannesburg, South Africa, that he would like to see more women enter the political fray because he is increasingly frustrated with men.

An outspoken Jewish advocate of Israel was gunned down at his workplace in South Africa by unidentified assailants, who left behind his car, wallet and cellular phone.

The remains of at least three suspected poachers were found on the Sibuya Game Reserve, eaten by a pride of lions.

South African Jewish leaders condemned “alarming” amount of anti-Semitic attacks this week.

The South African government became a laughing stock on Twitter on Thursday after it called on Israel to withdraw from the Gaza Strip, even though it already did so in 2005.

Turkey and South Africa announced that they will withdraw their ambassadors from Israel, and Turkey from the U.S., on Monday as Hamas claims dozens of deaths following riots on the Gaza-Israel border.

Award-winning film South African filmmaker Carlos Carvalho died after suffering a collision with a giraffe while shooting his latest feature film near Johannesburg.

Conservative journalist and author Lauren Southern appeared on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday to discuss the illegal immigrant caravan, the Defend Europe Alps mission, and white persecution in South Africa. “The first thing I want to address is the shocking

The U.S. State Department has released a report on the voting behavior of other countries at the United Nations — and has identified the top ten best and worst countries in terms of voting for or against the U.S., respectively.

In this week’s Delingpole podcast, special guest Simon Lincoln Reader discussed the violent farm murders and white genocide in South Africa, Lauren Southern’s ban from the UK, and the failed presidency of Cyril Ramaphosa.

Australia is laying the legislative groundwork necessary to welcome persecuted South African farmers who face a targeted campaign of violence at home, the country’s top legal officer said.

A quick-thinking police officer rescued a toddler whose father allegedly flung her from a rooftop as he tried to protest authorities looking to demolish his home, an illegal shack, in South Africa.

After an audience member asked conservative author Ann Coulter about the genocide of white farmers in South Africa during Breitbart News’ Town Hall on Thursday, and why the media is refusing to cover it. Coulter discussed the murders, saying “no one under fifty is getting his news from the mainstream media anymore.”

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.

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton says it’s “unquestionable” some white South African farmers are being persecuted and his department is looking into specific cases.

A judge in South Africa sentenced a man to four life sentences in prison on Tuesday for the murder of his nieces and nephews – whose ears, the court found, he planned to sell at a high price to a witch doctor for use in potions.

In an interview with a Zimbabwean newspaper over the weekend, ousted dictator Robert Mugabe complained that his friends in South Africa “could have done much more” to save him from the coup that ended his four decades of rule.

Ann Coulter says the U.S. will, “in one generation,” become South Africa after President Trump signed off on Paul Ryan’s omnibus spending bill that does not include a single provision from the president’s 70-point list of pro-American immigration reforms.

Contents: Turkey’s government takes control of last remaining independent news source; South Africans furious at Australia for condemning white farmer land confiscation

Australia’s Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has dismissed claims of racism over his plan to resettle South African white minority farmers in Australia, saying he ignores the confected outrage “from some of the crazy lefties at the Guardian and Huffington Post.”

Left-liberal activists have been enraged by an Australian proposal to help South Africa’s persecuted white minority, branding it “ridiculously racist”.

For months, Cape Town, a city of four million people, has been facing the doomsday scenario of taps running dry. The city’s Theewaterskloof Dam, a water reservoir which once supplied the city 50 percent of its supply, looks more like a desert area.

U2 frontman Bono issued an apology this weekend after several staff members at the ONE charity he co-founded described a culture of bullying and abuse at the organization’s office in South Africa.

China’s Communist Party has spent years promoting the value its “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure project could have for Africa. As the Trump administration ramps up its campaign to turn Africa away from China, some columnists throughout the continent appear to be listening.

South Africa’s leading opposition party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), announced that it was be taking legal action against radical politician Julius Malema, who told supporters last week to “cut the throat” of the “white man.”

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.

South Africans are increasingly worried that the government’s plans to expropriate land without compensation could destroy the economy and the country’s fragile democracy.

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.

South Africa’s new president has vowed to pursue the same course as Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe, expropriating land from white farmers without compensation.