South Africa

Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, announced Sunday that the country would be closing its embassy in Ireland, following that country’s decision to join South Africa’s “genocide” claim at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

China expects fellow members of the BRICS economic bloc to push back against President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats.

Prominent South Africans reacted angrily on Sunday to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% tariffs on the BRICS countries if they tried to create an alternative to the U.S. dollar as the global reserve and trade currency.

The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump will have significant opportunities to encourage change in South Africa, a nation that has drifted toward kleptocracy at home, and toward support for autocratic regimes abroad.

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election was big news across Africa, although much of the news coverage was not jubilant.

The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA World) has not only rejected a bid by its Israeli chapter to host its annual conference, but also suspended the Israeli branch, Aguda, entirely.

The annual summit for members of the BRICS anti-American bloc began on Tuesday, focused on its core members engaging in bilateral meetings prior to the largest summit including all nine members a dozens of invited guests from countries interested in joining.

The government of Russia confirmed on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia is not yet an official member of the anti-American BRICS coalition, claiming that the Middle East will formalize its position one way or the other at this month’s summit.

Former president Donald Trump flew a newly-freed Nelson Mandela from South Africa to the United States in 1990 when there were no other options, according to a recently resurfaced report from the Los Angeles Times.

The communist government of Cuba confirmed on Monday that it has formally requested a “partnership” agreement with BRICS, the China-led international coalition dedicated to eradicating American influence abroad.

Low-cost Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) have reportedly made major inroads into South Africa’s market, with industry analysts pointing to years of double-digit sales growth.

The City of Johannesburg, South Africa, has decided to rename the street on which the U.S. consulate is situated after a notorious Palestinian terrorist who tried to hijack a commercial flight in 1970 before being subdued by passengers.

A North Carolina woman who went hiking in South Africa was found dead on Sunday after going missing the day before, local officials said.

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak spoke at Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this week, telling students and faculty that the principles of the Bible are essential to liberty — and more relevant than ever in the wake of the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses around the country.

A leading South African bishop has warned of a mounting presence and increased financial activity of individuals linked to the Islamic State.

South Africa’s business community is reacting with alarm to a vote last week in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass a bill requiring the government to review ties with the African nation due to its anti-Western foreign policies.

The Cuban External Relations Ministry announced this weekend that it would intervene in the ongoing case against Israel brought by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to “end the genocide against the Palestinian people.”

South Africa’s new government is a “Government of National Unity” (GNU) between the formerly dominant African National Congress (ANC), the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), and the Zulu Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).

South Africa’s uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, headed by former president Jacob Zuma, on Tuesday filed a case with the Constitutional Court to block the newly elected parliament from taking its seats, because the elections last month were allegedly rigged.

South Africa’s opposition needs to discover its inner Trump and seize the opportunity to make a deal to take power — before it is too late.

The Latin American branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center denounced far-left Chilean President Gabriel Boric in a public letter on Monday.

Leftist President Gabriel Boric of Chile announced Saturday that his country would join a controversial case led by South Africa at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel, accusing the nation of “genocide” for its self-defense operations against Hamas.

South Africa’s opposition parties have a chance to take power from the ruling African National Congress (ANC), as the final results appear to show the Democratic Alliance (DA) could have enough votes to form a governing coalition.

South Africa’s ruling ANC faced a search for allies to form a new government after losing its three-decade-old absolute majority in a watershed election.

South Africa’s next government will be a coalition between the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and at least one opposition party, after the ANC’s collapse in this week’s election, as it failed to win a majority for the first time.

South Africa is still tabulating the votes from its national elections, but it appears at press time that the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its majority for the first time since the end of apartheid in 1994.

The government of Israel reacted to news that South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), was likely to lose its majority for the first time, by noting the South African government had been a “lawyer for Hamas.”

South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA), the highest appellate court in the country other than the Constitutional Court, dismissed an appeal this week against a decision that “Kill the Boer” was not hate speech.

South Africans headed to the polls Wednesday for general elections in which the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has a chance of losing power at the national level for the first time since multiracial democracy began in 1994.

South African Jewish leaders slammed President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday for his use of the genocidal chant on Sunday, “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free,” which is a call for the elimination of the State of Israel.

South Africans will go to the polls on Wednesday, May 29, in what may be the last chance to save their country from the ruin wrought by the so-called party of liberation, the African National Congress (ANC).

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that there’s never a wrong time to recognize a Palestinian state but Hamas shouldn’t be involved in it and while the ICC shouldn’t arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

South Africa returned to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands, this week in an effort to stop Israel’s ongoing military operation in the city of Rafah against the last Hamas battalions in the Gaza Strip.

The government of Turkey announced on Wednesday that it is seeking to become a party to a case accusing Israel of “genocide” against the terrorist organization Hamas at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

South Africa’s top election court on Tuesday overturned an election commission ban on former President Jacob Zuma, clearing the way for Zuma to run in the May 29 election despite having been jailed in 2021 for refusing to testify in a corruption probe.

A bus with 46 Christians on board veered off a bridge in the mountains of South Africa, killing all passengers except an 8-year-old girl.