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After weeks of coalition wrangling, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new unity administration in South Africa started being sworn in during a televised event in Cape Town on Wednesday. The newly reappointed deputy president, Paul Mashatile, took the...

In a ground-breaking effort to stop poaching, South African scientists put radioactive material into live rhino horns on Tuesday to make them easier to see at border stations. Since the bulk of rhinos worldwide reside in...

Following his weaker African National Congress (ANC) striking a deal to form a government coalition, Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, is scheduled to take office on Wednesday at a ceremony in Pretoria. Following an...

Voting in a historic election that may bring an end to the African National Congress’s (30-year-old, uncontested hegemony) started underway on Thursday, with ballots being counted following long nights spent by voters. With lengthy lines of...

The highest UN court will make a decision on South Africa’s request for an injunction to stop Israel’s military assault in Gaza on Friday. Pretoria has accused Israel of committing “genocide”. Pretoria has pleaded with the...

Lutho Makheyi, while strolling around the ramshackle shacks of her home’s informal community west of Johannesburg, points out areas where unpaved streets are punctured by trenches filled with soiled rainwater. These are the wounds caused by...

One week after the building collapsed in South Africa, authorities announced on Monday that the number of deaths from the collapsed building had increased to 30, and that 22 more persons were still unaccounted for. Ten...

Egypt declared on Sunday that it would formally back South Africa’s claim of genocide against Israel in its assault against Hamas in Gaza at the International Court of Justice. In December, Pretoria filed a complaint with...

Many voters in South Africa are tired of waiting thirty years for their first post-apartheid election. This could be the first time the ruling ANC loses its majority. “In 1994, I was 51 years old, and...

South Africa’s top diplomat on Tuesday accused Israel of setting a precedent for leaders to defy the top UN court, as she again alleged a campaign of “starvation” in Gaza. South Africa has hauled Israel before...