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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.

(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.

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.

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.

Rhoda Kadalie’s remarkable journey teaches that a true love of liberty transcends the categories that often confine our political thinking.

A South African municipal by-election has pitted opposition party titans – one led by Herman Mashaba, a new entrant on the political landscape who styles himself as a black Donald Trump; and the other the Leader of the Official Opposition, John Steenhuisen – in a battle for the right to lead the fight against the national ruling African National Congress (ANC).

A FORMER South African Leader of the Opposition in Parliament has warned that his country’s lacklustre approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could place the country in danger of wrecking its special status under USA-sponsored African Growth and Opportunities Act.

Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced on Friday that his government has identified over 16,000 foreigners, most of whom come from the Middle East, willing to fight on Russia’s side in the ongoing war with Ukraine.

Germany’s embassy in South Africa has claimed Germans are “experts on Nazism” after a strange online spat with Russia’s embassy in the same country.

While it has the climate of California, the Western Cape is the political equivalent of Florida, the one place that is willing to depart from the statism of the central government.

The City of Cape Town, whose residents are frustrated with repeated the electricity failures of the national utility, Eskom, has invited bids from independent power providers to supply the city with 300 MW of electricity.

Julius Malema faces a hate speech trial in the South African Equality Courts over his party’s use of the anti-white “Kill the Boer” chant.

Dr. Angelique Coetzee, the South African doctor who was among the first to identify the omicron variant of the Wuhan coronavirus, told the Daily Telegraph on Wednesday she was subjected to “a lot of pressure from European scientists and politicians” to portray omicron as more dangerous than it actually was.

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) on Wednesday demanded “wealthy countries” pay them $16 billion in cash up front to drive coronavirus schemes in developing countries, including mass vaccination rollouts.

Former South African Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was asked Friday by a judicial panel to apologize for remarks he made in 2020 supporting the State of Israel.

Bystanders were shocked when a bull elephant overturned a car in iSimangaliso Wetland Park in South Africa on Sunday.

The power went out Saturday night as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed a gala fundraising dinner for his ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), causing embarrassment to the government and forcing his evacuation.

South Africa’s government recently erected four separate checkpoints along its border with Zimbabwe in an effort to detect and arrest “hundreds of undocumented Zimbabweans” who have crossed into South Africa illegally in recent days, the online newspaper New Zimbabwe reported on Tuesday.

South African officials are scapegoating a poor, unemployed black man for the fire that broke out in Parliament on Sunday and was only extinguished on Tuesday, according to the man’s lawyer.

South Africa’s historic Old Assembly building was severely damaged by a deliberately set fire on Sunday. The arsonist was evidently able to enter the building and carry out his attack because weekend and holiday shifts for security personnel were canceled to save money.

A huge fire that destroyed a large part of South Africa’s parliament has been brought under control, firefighters said on Monday.