By Fidel Amakye Owusu Southern Africa emerged as a significant regional security complex profoundly influenced by the dynamics of the Cold War. During the 1960s and...
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Thursday that South Africa’s new Government of National Unity (GNU) will prioritize inclusive growth, job creation, and poverty reduction....
On Wednesday, South Africa’s newly appointed cabinet officially took office, poised to address the critical challenges of driving economic growth, fostering social change, and reducing socio-economic...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu There are several core values that are fundamental to democratic systems around the world. These include human rights and freedoms, transparency, accountability,...
AP | Cyril Ramaphosa was sworn in for a second term as South Africa’s president on Wednesday in a ceremony in the administrative capital, Pretoria. Ramaphosa...
AP | The leader of South Africa’s second biggest party said Friday it will back Cyril Ramaphosa for president, almost guaranteeing he will be re-elected in...
By Gregory Simpkins The Republic of South Africa has long been considered the hub of the wheel of the southern Africa region. It is the most...
AP | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called Sunday for South Africa’s political parties to overcome their differences and find “common ground” to form the first...
Bloomberg | South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma’s newly formed party vowed to nationalize land and banks, withdraw from the International Criminal Court and expand the...
AP | Former South African President Jacob Zuma is not eligible to run in upcoming elections, the Independent Electoral Commission has ruled. The commission said at...
Reuters | South Africa will hold national and provincial elections on May 29, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said on Tuesday. The elections are expected to be...
AFP | South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma reported back to prison on Friday only to be swiftly released, in a government move lashed by the...
Bloomberg | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed a new deputy and electricity czar and replaced several ministers, injecting new blood into a cabinet that’s failed...
Bloomberg | South African Deputy President David Mabuza tendered his resignation to parliament ahead of Cyril Ramaphosa’s anticipated cabinet reshuffle. Mabuza sent a letter to parliament...
AFP | South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party on Monday re-elected President Cyril Ramaphosa as its leader for a second 5-year term, despite a...
AFP | South Africa’s parliament was set to debate Tuesday whether to initiate proceedings to remove scandal-engulfed President Cyril Ramaphosa from office. Ramaphosa, who was championed...
Bloomberg | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s allies are steeling themselves before a meeting of the governing party’s top leaders at which he’s likely to face...
Seven-day mourning period is planned in Cape Town before Tutu’s burial.
He was viewed by many in South Africa as the last apartheid ruler, not the leader who helped steer the country away from violent racial oppression.
Government discussing paying basic income grant says Ramaphosa
AP | A South African regional court is to rule Friday on whether it will block an order by the country’s highest court for the arrest...
Ruling sets a precedent for South Africa and benchmark for the continent
Angry South Africans have come out in their thousands to demand President Jacob Zuma’s resignation. Protesters in 3 of South Africa’s largest cities demanded President Jacob...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) won this year’s election, guaranteeing it another five years at the helm of Africa’s most advanced nation, but the...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress was headed for a comfortable win as vote-counting in South Africa’s elections drew to a close Friday while key...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) party led its rivals in early election results on Thursday after a campaign in which the opposition tried to...
South Africa marked 2 decades of multi-racial democracy on Sunday, still feeling the loss of Nelson Mandela and in sombre mood just 10 days before elections...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File Twenty years after the euphoria of South Africa’s first democratic elections swept liberation hero Nelson Mandela to power, the governing...
South African lawmakers are in the process of enacting legislation that will seek to increase the involvement of black citizens and women in the economy. With...
South Africa’s biggest union has called a one-day work stoppage for Wednesday to highlight youth unemployment in the country, the union said. The 340,000-member National Union...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/Stephane De Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma said the government must push for increased black ownership of the continent’s...
Incumbent South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and leader of opposition Democratic Alliance Party Helen Zille (r). PHOTO/Daily Maverick South Africa will hold general elections on...
South Africa’s economy cannot afford more mine labor unrest, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said on Monday, as the platinum industry’s main trade union served notice on...
South Africa’s largest trade union on Friday said it will no longer back the ruling African National Congress, a tectonic shift in the country’s politics ahead...
The casket bearing Nelson Mandela’s remains prior to being lowered into his grave. PHOTO/AFP/Getty Images Nelson Mandela was laid to rest Sunday in the green, rolling...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s body lying in state. PHOTO/Marco Longari/AFP Thousands of people queued on Wednesday to say goodbye to Nelson Mandela, whose body...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/Walter Dhladhla/AFP/Getty Images South African President Jacob Zuma has declared a week of mourning across South Africa for Nelson Mandela...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s biggest union is considering pulling out of the African National Congress (ANC)-aligned Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) labor federation to...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South African trade union – the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) said it...
South African Workers at vehicle assembly plant. PHOTO/Volkswagen South Africa South Africa’s auto manufacturing industry came to a near standstill on Monday when about 30,000 workers...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP Nelson Mandela’s health has deteriorated and he is now in critical condition, the South African government said...
Anglo American’s platinum arm, under pressure from South Africa’s government, could announce a restructuring plan as early as Thursday that will sharply scale back job losses...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian Press Release The African National Congress welcomes the outcomes of the study by the University of...
The National Union of Mineworkers, an ally of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, said it will ask for a double-digit increase in pay when negotiating...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu – PHOTO/Martin Meissner/AP (Reuters) – South African anti-apartheid campaigner retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu has won the 2013 Templeton Prize worth US$1.7 million for...
Former South African President Nelson Mandela. PHOTO/PETER DEJONG /AP (Reuters) – Former South African President Nelson Mandela’s recovery is ‘on track’ at his home in Johannesburg,...
South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) political party says that nationalization of private businesses is “off the table.” Public Enterprises Minister Malusi Gigaba made the...
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to keep President Jacob Zuma as the head...
Police in South Africa say they have foiled a plot by white extremists to suspected of having weapons and planning attacks on undisclosed targets, a spokesman...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File AP – South Africa’s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe will compete next week against President...
South African President Jacob Zuma (l) and his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe. PHOTO/File South Africa’s deputy president says he is “agonizing” over whether he would accept leading...
Spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama (r), presents the International Campaign for Tibet’s Light of Truth Award to South African Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu....
South African President Jacob Zuma. PHOTO/File As the labor unrest in the mining sector in South Africa eases, a politically battered but defiant President Jacob Zuma...
(Reuters) – Two South African mines reopened on Monday after labor strife forced them to suspend operations last week, but striking miners vowed to keep operations...
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) began a key policy conference Tuesday that pushes for a “second transition” to give black people more ownership of...
Julius Malema. PHOTO/File The African National Congress (ANC) expelled the party’s youth leader late Wednesday, the latest attempt to control a figure who has angered his...
Nationalization is not an option for South Africa’s troubled mining industry, the country’s mining minister told an international audience Tuesday. A nationalization debate within mining minister...
Against all odds, the party of Nelson Mandela has transformed a nation where just 20 years ago black South Africans could not vote, and beaches and...
In a strong slap at a young but powerful politician, South Africa’s governing party fired its controversial youth leader Thursday and suspended him from the African...
Lindiwe Mazibuko Picture: Gallo Images/Foto24/Nasief Manie South Africa’s main opposition party has for the first time elected a black woman to lead it in parliament. Thursday’s...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The black man who leads the youth wing of South Africa's governing party has no right to sing a song some whites find...
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