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President Condemns Detention Of U.S. Officials In South Africa

President Condemns Detention Of U.S. Officials In South Africa

December 22, 2025 1:18 am

United States government urges immediate accountability after officials supporting the Afrikaner minority briefly detained amid refugee tensions.

President Donald Trump’s administration has sharply condemned the detention of U.S. officials in South Africa, calling for immediate accountability and heightening tensions between the two nations.

According to a State Department statement, the U.S. “condemns in the strongest terms” the brief detention of two U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) refugee officers. The officials had been providing assistance related to the Afrikaner minority, a group seeking refuge in the United States. Seven Kenyan nationals were also arrested in connection with allegedly working illegally

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South Africa Tavern Shooting Leaves Nine Dead Near Johannesburg

South Africa Tavern Shooting Leaves Nine Dead Near Johannesburg

December 21, 2025 2:43 am

South African police have launched an intensive manhunt after nine people were shot dead and 10 others wounded during a late-night attack at a licensed tavern in a township west of Johannesburg, authorities said on Sunday.

The shooting took place shortly after 1:00 a.m. local time in Bekkersdal, a densely populated community near the mining town of Westonaria, according to police statements.

Police said a group of about 12 armed men, traveling in two vehicles, arrived at the tavern and opened fire on customers inside the venue before continuing to shoot indiscriminately as they fled the area.

“The suspects fired …

South Africa Mass Shooting Leaves 11 Dead At Saulsville Hostel

South Africa Mass Shooting Leaves 11 Dead At Saulsville Hostel

December 6, 2025 11:57 am

At least 11 people, including a three-year-old child, were killed early Saturday when gunmen opened fire inside a hostel in Saulsville township, west of Pretoria. Fourteen others were wounded in one of South Africa’s deadliest mass shootings this year, police said.

Police spokesperson Brig. Athlenda Mathe told reporters that three unidentified gunmen entered the building shortly after 04:30 local time (02:30 GMT) and opened fire on a group of people who had gathered to drink. “I can confirm that a total of 25 people were shot,” Mathe said.

The attack also killed a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, …

G20 Confronts A Fragmented Global Landscape

G20 Confronts A Fragmented Global Landscape

November 23, 2025 3:21 pm

G20 leaders ended their summit in South Africa on Sunday with a flourish of support for multilateralism — even as the gathering itself underscored how fractured the global system has become. With the United States boycotting the meeting and geopolitical rivalries sharpening, the group wrestled with the question of whether it can still hold the center in a splintering world.

“Too many countries are retreating into geopolitical blocs or the battlegrounds of protectionism,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said. “We are not experiencing a transition, but a rupture.” His warning set the tone for a summit defined by unease rather …

UK Prime Minister Arrives South Africa For G20 Summit

UK Prime Minister Arrives South Africa For G20 Summit

November 21, 2025 2:57 am

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer arrived in Johannesburg on Friday for the start of the G20 summit, a global meeting of major economies that will proceed without the United States after President Donald Trump chose not to attend.

Starmer’s visit is part of a broader effort to position the UK as an active player in trade and investment across Africa. The prime minister plans to highlight opportunities for British firms at a time when Downing Street views the continent as a key source of future economic growth.

Ahead of the summit, Starmer toured a Johannesburg rail depot where trains …

Al Jazeera/ G20 Summit South Africa: Security Tightened Ahead Of Protests

G20 Summit South Africa: Security Tightened Ahead Of Protests

November 20, 2025 7:21 am

South African police and army units staged a high-profile parade in Johannesburg on Wednesday, showcasing helicopters and motorcycle units in preparation for expected protests surrounding the Group of 20 (G20) leaders’ summit this weekend.

Authorities have reinforced security with 3,500 additional police officers and placed the army on standby under the National Joint Operational and Intelligence Structure, which coordinates the country’s police, military, and intelligence agencies for major events.

Deputy National Commissioner for Policing Lieutenant General Tebello Mosikili said demonstrations are anticipated not only in Johannesburg but also in other major South African cities. “We will allow that right [to …

South Africa Qualifies, Nigeria Heads To Play-Offs

South Africa Qualifies, Nigeria Heads To Play-Offs

October 14, 2025 6:08 pm

South Africa booked their place at the 2026 FIFA World Cup by topping Group C, overcoming a points deduction, while Nigeria secured a path forward via the African play-offs. 

In Mbombela, South Africa defeated Rwanda 3–0 to clinch top spot in their group. Thalente Mbatha opened the scoring in the fifth minute, Oswin Appollis added a second before halftime, and Evidence Makgopa sealed the win with a 72nd-minute header.

That victory came even after South Africa had earlier been docked three points by FIFA for fielding an ineligible player. The ruling, applied to their match against Lesotho, saw their 2–0 …

BRICS: Africa's Call For Fair Talks, Not Sacrifice

BRICS: Africa’s Call For Fair Talks, Not Sacrifice

September 4, 2023 1:23 am

In the corridors of global economic power, the emergence of BRICS—comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—stands as a transformative chapter in the narrative of 21st-century geopolitics. Representing a profound shift away from traditional Western dominance, BRICS brings to the table an ambitious agenda of recalibrating the global economic order. Yet, as history unfolds, the continent of Africa finds itself at a decisive juncture, confronting a seminal question: How can Africa, with its extraordinary wealth of natural resources and burgeoning market potential, ensure that it isn’t marginalised or exploited within this new paradigm?

The implications are vast. Given …

Africa Needs Technocrats In Politics Not Career Politicians

Africa Needs Technocrats In Politics Not Career Politicians

June 29, 2023 4:32 am

It won’t be an easy task to deny that there’s a wind of change blowing across the African continent at the moment. Africa, which has been for decades a cauldron of traditional politics, is presently at a crossroads and needs to make a crucial decision about the type of leaders it wants to shape its future. Thankfully, for the very first time, the conventional wisdom that has long relied on career politicians is increasingly being questioned. The new narrative emerging from the continent’s intellectuals, youth, and forward-thinking citizens is a call for a new breed of leadership – technocrats.…

Why The Europeans Must Apologise, Compensate South Africa

Why The Europeans Must Apologise, Compensate South Africa

May 10, 2023 11:59 pm

Apartheid in South Africa was nothing short of a nightmare. A nightmare that was the life and reality of people of color in South Africa for over four decades, between 1948 and the early 1990s.

The Apartheid law in South Africa was a nomenclature to describe the racial reclassification and segregation that the country was thrown into, simply because the Europeans in their supremacist mindsets decided that it wasn’t enough to rip South Africans of their natural and economic resources, but to turn them into slaves and nonentities in their land.

People of colour in South Africa were in a …

Looting With Reckless Abandon Are African Leaders Cursed

Looting With Reckless Abandon: Are African Leaders Cursed?

March 20, 2023 11:42 am

A number of people have tried to suggest that there is something fundamentally wrong with the DNA of the black man, well, as unfounded and racist as it may sound, the truth is that happenings in the African continent have given reasons to believe such theories. The ways and manner in which leaders elected or foisted on African nations have continued to loot the common patrimony of the people they are supposed to be representing and growing clearly speaks to the fact that all is not well with the continent.

The biggest tragedy of the African continent today is that …

Why The ANC Must Give Up On Ramaphosa To Save South Africa

Why The ANC Must Give Up On Ramaphosa To Save South Africa

December 26, 2022 2:10 am

A saying goes thus; when a man hides a rotting sore, he has determined to rot and die along with it. South Africa and its ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC) seem ready to die with the rotting sore that is Cyril Ramaphosa.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is like a black sheep walking about in the daylight when a hunt for him is on, but he is surrounded by other thoughtless sheep who have decided to shield him with their lives.

Ramaphosa survived an impeachment attempt by South Africa’s national assembly on the 13th of December 2022. Opposition …

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