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The awkward drama over if South Africa would fulfill its treaty obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC) by arresting Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg was apparently resolved on Tuesday.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Thursday that Moscow favors expanding the BRICS economic bloc to include more nations, but France will not be one of those new members.

South African Police Minister Bheki Cele and a group of his senior officials visited China last week for five days of discussions and training with Chinese police officials. Their schedule included talks about security preparations for the August BRICS summit to be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and security for projects under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

There’s a lesson my friend Theo Schkolne can teach us about political debates: think with your heart. Fight for your view, but treat people with equal empathy.

According to the Nigerian legislature, departing President Muhammadu Buhari created a fake airline as his final act in office. Buhari even managed to arrange the flight of a lone aircraft bearing the livery of the nonexistent Nigeria Air before taking his final bow.

The government of South Africa published a notice on Monday that it would grant diplomatic immunity to all attendees of the BRICS summit in August.

South Africa is exceeding its goal for cutting greenhouse gas emissions — thanks to regular blackouts that have become a daily feature of life in the country and have become a serious obstacle to economic growth.

The results of the South African experiment are in, and they are conclusive: democratic socialism has failed, at least in a diverse society with a recent history of conflict.

A South African pilot kept his cool and successfully landed a plane after finding a venomous snake under his seat.

South African writer Jeremy Gordin, 70, was murdered on Saturday in his home, sending shockwaves through the literary and journalistic world.

Former South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who was convicted of murdering model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013, was denied parole.

A manhunt is underway for a convicted rapist whom South African authorities say faked his own death to escape from prison while serving a life sentence.

Kremlin loudmouth Dmitry Medvedev made clear anyone who tries to arrest President Putin can expect to feel the wrath of “all our weapons”.

South African rapper Costa Titch, whose real name was Constantinos Tsobanoglou, has died at the age of 28 after collapsing onstage while performing at a Johannesburg music festival on Saturday. No cause of death was announced.

Israel on Wednesday slammed as “disgraceful” a vote taken by the South African parliament to downgrade ties with Jerusalem. “The symbolic resolution taken yesterday by the South African Parliament calling for the downgrading of relations between South Africa and Israel

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party on Monday downplayed $826,000 in donations from United Manganese of Kalahari Ltd., a mining company partly owned by Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg.

Latin American and African nations made up the bulk of the small resistance on Thursday against condemning Russia on the anniversary of its “special operation” against Ukraine during a vote at the United Nations General Assembly.

South African officials confirmed last week that the BRICS coalition – South Africa, China, India, Russia, and Brazil – are actively considering expanding membership, a proposal that would potentially force arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran into an alliance.

Recent years have seen these South Africa’s major cities diverge in their fortunes. Cape Town is getting even better; Johannesburg is becoming far worse.

South Africa is due to hold joint naval exercises beginning Friday with Russia and China on the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Load shedding,” the practice of controlled blackouts by the state-owned power company, Eskom, continues to plague South Africa, and was recorded in an early morning video on Wednesday.

One of South Africa’s hottest rap artists, Kiernan Forbes, known as AKA, has been shot dead outside a restaurant in the southeastern city of Durban, his family said Saturday.

California is in danger of becoming the next South Africa — not because of racial conflict, but because it is following a bad example of placing one overriding ideological priority ahead of all other practical concerns.

From Pretoria to Washington, two great and hopeful democracies are burdened by corrupt elites and weak political leadership.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa used his annual “State of the Nation” address to Parliament on Thursday evening to declare a “national state of disaster” regarding the country’s ongoing electricity shortages.

The Joburg Film Festival in South Africa defied a decision by the country’s Film and Publications Board (FPB) to block the screening of Black Girl, a celebrated film by Senegalese director Ousmane Sembène, this week.

Thapelo Amad, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist party Al Jamah-ah, was elected mayor of Johannesburg, South Africa, despite representing a tiny faction in the city council.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, amid threats of a “national shutdown” to protest electricity price hikes amid widespread blackouts.

A gas tanker exploded in Johannesburg, South Africa on Christmas Eve, blowing the roof off a nearby hospital and causing injuries hundreds of yards away. On Tuesday, the death toll from the blast was raised to 18, half of them staff and patients at the badly damaged Tambo Memorial Hospital.

President Joe Biden pledged Wednesday to move South Africa off coal, its main source of energy, toward green energy sources — despite the fact that the country lacks the power to keep its electricity on 24 hours per day.

Andre de Ruyter, the chief executive officer of South Africa’s beleaguered state power company, Eskom, resigned Wednesday after he was scapegoated by the ruling African National Congress for ongoing blackouts.

A provincial court has nullified an effort by South Africa’s ruling party to oust an opposition mayor from Johannesburg, the country’s largest city and the hub of its economy.

South Africa’s Julius Malema, leader of a radical opposition party called the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), exhorted a crowd at his party’s provincial conference in the Western Cape last week to be prepared to “kill” as part of the anticipated “revolution.”

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said during a visit to Riyadh this weekend that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is interested in joining the BRICS coalition, a trade and security organization led by Russia and China.

The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, which had been governed by an opposition coalition since municipal elections last year, saw its government collapse over the weekend, a sign that the country could be led by a racist left-wing party after the 2024 election.

The once electricity-rich nation of South Africa is suffering its worst year of power outages yet, as the country plunges into its deepest energy crisis ever, with state utility Eskom declaring “Stage 6” load-shedding this week.