Browsing: South Africa

A sombre mood engulfed the Namibian capital, Windhoek, on Friday, 28 February, 2025, as thousands gathered to give a final salute to the nation’s founding father…

For years, white supremacists have pushed the myth of a so-called ‘white g*nocide’ in South Africa to justify their racist paranoia and deflect from the real…

On 27 February 1978, South African freedom fighter and pan-African intellectual Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe succumbed to lung cancer. Despite dying at the relatively young age of…

Pan-Africanist icon and Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, Robert Mugabe, was born on this day, 21 February, in 1924. The larger-than-life politician, who died of cancer at…

Economic Freedom Fighters (@effsouthafrica) President Julius Malema urged South Africa’s government to remain resolute in the face of US President Donald Trump’s administration threatening to cut…

Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, recently disclosed that his ex-wife Maye’s father, Joshua N Haldeman, moved from Canada to South Africa in support of the apartheid…

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), has added its voice to the standoff between its government and the administration of US President Donald…

Amidst US President Donald Trump’s attacks on South Africa over the recently enacted Land Expropriation Act that has seen a section of Afrikaners call for US…

Washington’s use of economic and soft-power coercion against South Africa reveals US weakness, says political commentator Saheed Bolsen in this clip. Aid freezes, economic pressure and…

Elon Musk’s role in the ongoing spat between Donald Trump and South Africa has brought to the fore ties between powerful US interests and individuals linked…