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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.

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.

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.

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.

Queen Elizabeth II was pictured standing and smiling as she performed duties just two days ago, a working monarch until the very end.

Meghan Markle has once again sparked controversy after she compared her wedding to British Prince Harry to the release of civil rights leader Nelson Mandela from prison.

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), fell below a majority in new nationwide polls of voters, but there is no opposition party — or coalition of opposition parties — that could yet form an alternative governing majority.

(AFP) – From a distance, Orania looks like any other small town in rural South Africa. But once inside, the visitor is struck by an obvious difference. Everyone here is white…

South African authorities charged 14 men with rape this week in connection with the brutal gang rape of eight women at an abandoned mine near Krugersdorp on July 28, the South African news channel Newzroom Afrika reported on Thursday, noting that the “majority” of the suspects charged with rape on Thursday are illegal migrants “from Mozambique.”

South African International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor lectured American counterpart Antony Blinken on Western nations “bullying” the continent and denounced democratic states seeking “to teach a country” how to be free in remarks highlighted by the news portal All Africa on Wednesday.

The DOJ, the Democrats, and the media who egg them on are turning America into the kind of place that people leave in search of liberty.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech Monday at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in which he purported to outline the Biden administration’s new strategy toward Africa — though he simply recycled old platitudes.

(AFP) – Millions of boxes of oranges are spoiling in containers stranded at European ports as South Africa and the European Union lock horns in a dispute over import rules, citrus growers have said.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday condemned acts of “mob justice” perpetrated by South Africans against illegal miners this week in response to the brutal gang rape of eight women by suspected illegal miners last week at an abandoned mine near Krugersdorp, South Africa, eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) reported.

A group of men and “young boys” gang raped eight women aged 19 to 37 years old at an abandoned mine near Krugersdorp, South Africa, last week, South Africa’s Sunday Times reported.

Police in South Africa confirmed 19 people were killed early Sunday morning in two separate mass shootings denounced by the president as “unacceptable and worrying.”

Two teenage survivors of a mysterious mass death incident at a South African nightclub on Sunday told Al Jazeera and Agence France-Presse (AFP) separately on Monday that they each suspect that staff at the venue sprayed an unidentified gas-like substance onto patrons of the overflowing bar, which may have contributed to the deaths of 21 minors.

Government officials in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province said at least 21 teenagers were “found dead” at a bar on Sunday morning under unclear circumstances, South Africa’s DispatchLive reported, noting that while the cause of the deaths remains unknown, some have speculated that the youths may have been “exposed to some form of poison.”

G7 Leaders pledged Monday to work together to curb climate change while ensuring energy security for their citizens.

Load-shedding is artificial scarcity. It is difficult to stop once it starts. We in the U.S. must change course while we still can.

Africa is suffering a severe shortage of gasoline and petroleum-based fuels generally despite being home to some of the world’s largest oil reserves — a product of being unable to consistently refine all of its crude.

A group of scientists called the Malabo Montpellier Panel published a report in May that encouraged Africa to develop a “sustainable bio-economy” through such innovative techniques as making muffins and meatloaf out of flies.

The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, is to follow the lead of Cape Town and seek alternative power suppliers other than Eskom, the state-run electricity monopoly that has been gutted by overly aggressive affirmative action and mismanagement.

James Myburgh notes that while Carlson’s report was inaccurate, the Times’ criticism of it was “unhinged from reality.”

Africa’s first Chinese coronavirus vaccine plant, Aspen Pharmacare, is at risk of shutting down after failing to receive a single order for the plant’s Johnson & Johnson-made inoculation since opening in November 2021, Aspen Pharmacare senior director Stavros Nicolaou told Reuters in an interview published Monday.

A research team reportedly recorded a Southern right whale’s journey from South African waters to the Argentinian coast for the first time.

Former South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) chair Barney Pityana, a theologian by training, is exploiting the recent death of anti-apartheid feminist pioneer Rhoda Kadalie in an attempt to settle old scores about the organization.