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Corruption in South Africa: whistleblower protection law is being reformed - but it may not go far enough

South Africa is on the path to reforming its law on whistleblowing to provide improved protection for individuals who expose corruption and illegal activity.

The Conversation

South Africa’s Chad Hanekom excited for DWCS opportunity: ‘It’s our time to show what we bring to the market’

With South African MMA booming, Chad Hanekom is looking to stake his claim on Dana White's Contender Series.

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Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn't want to have to arrest him

South Africa's deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant

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Kentucky dominates Canada in GLOBL JAM, qualifies for gold medal game

The Kentucky Wildcats are clearly the team to beat at the GLOBL JAM.

Tribune News Service

Iranian president arrives in Zimbabwe to anti-West songs for the last stop on a rare Africa trip

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has been welcomed in Zimbabwe by people singing songs criticizing the West

The Independent UK

Painted messages in Angola's abandoned liberation army camps offer a rare historical record

In Angola’s Malanje province, the buildings of Camalundu stand abandoned amid open fields. On one of them, the fragmented words “IAN NGOYI” recall a figure little-known in Angola but familiar to South Africans: anti-apartheid leader Lilian Ngoyi.

The Conversation

Migration within Africa: A new series on new homes close to home

African migration is often seen through the lens of movements towards Europe. This series takes a different route.

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What time is South Africa v Australia kick-off and what TV channel is it on?

It's a much shorter campaign this year

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‘People are dying’: South Africa workers protest economic woes

South Africa is facing rolling electricity blackouts, high unemployment and growing social unrest due to economic woes.

Al Jazeera

Man finds huge African huntsman spider in suitcase at Edinburgh home

The shocked man discovered the 10cm stowaway arachnid while unpacking at his home in Edinburgh on Sunday.

Daily Record

Cholera: vaccines can stop the spread, but the biggest deterrent is clean water

South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via the faecal-oral route mostly through ingestion of contaminated food and water. It causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration, and…

The Conversation

Climate change journalism in South Africa misses the mark by ignoring people’s daily experiences

South Africa’s media houses rely too heavily on events like conferences, climate disasters and the release of scientific papers in their reporting on climate change. That’s a problem: it creates the potential for day-to-day issues related to climate change, like ongoing mitigation and adaptation efforts, to go unreported.

The Conversation

Ukraine war is hurting Africa, South African President Ramaphosa tells Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met with a group of leaders of African countries who traveled to Russia on a self-styled "peace mission" the day after they went to Ukraine.

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High-speed rail tunnel to link Europe to Africa gets EU feasibility funding

The Spanish government on Friday confirmed funding for a study looking at a link to Morocco

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African leaders set to meet with presidents of Ukraine, Russia in bid to end war

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in Ukraine in a delegation of African leaders and senior officials seeking ways to end Kyiv’s 15-month war with Russia

The Conversation

South Africa is famous for its biodiversity: a new network will store and manage its plant and animal samples

South Africa has created a network of facilities to store hundreds of thousands of samples of biological material from plants, animals, bacteria and fungi. The samples are currently held in biobanks in the country. The aim is twofold: to ensure researchers have access to all available samples, and to establish…

The Independent UK

US lawmakers ask Biden Administration to punish South Africa for alleged support for Russia

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers wants the Biden Administration to punish South Africa for what they call its support for Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

South Africa may seek way out of hosting Brics summit over Putin arrest

Pretoria would be required to arrest Putin if he attended and send him to The Hague for trial on war crimes charges

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South Africa's power crisis will continue until 2025 - and blackouts will take 5 years to phase out

South Africa is in the middle of a severe electricity crisis, with enforced power cuts that have worsened every year. Electricity is sometimes unavailable for 10 hours a day. The shortfall is the consequence of frequent breakdowns at its ageing coal power plants, which constitute 74% of the country’s generating…

The Conversation

South Africa's role as host of the BRICS summit is fraught with dangers. A guide to who is in the group, and why it exists

South Africa will host the BRICS summit in August 2023. The event could offer the country an opportunity to exercise leadership in the BRICS’ efforts to reform the arrangements for global economic governance and in supporting sustainable and inclusive development in Africa and the Global South. However, the opportunity has…

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A ‘Russian love affair’: Why South Africa stays ‘neutral’ on war

South Africa’s stance of neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine war has been at variance with its Moscow ties. Why is that so?

The Independent UK

Possible Putin trip in spotlight as Russia, China foreign ministers set for meeting in South Africa

The Russian and Chinese foreign ministers are expected to meet with their counterparts from the BRICS economic bloc in Cape Town on Thursday

The Conversation

Half of Africa’s white rhino population is in private hands – it’s time for a new conservation approach

Southern white rhinos are widely known as a conservation success story. Their population grew from fewer than 100 individuals in the 1920s to 20,000 in 2012, mostly in South Africa.

The Independent UK

Three cheetah cubs die in India amid sweltering heat wave

Three cheetah cubs born to a big cat brought to India from Africa last year died in the past week in central India’s Kuno National Park

France 24

Cannes spotlights Cameroonian film: ‘It’s high time African stories influence world cinema’

The Cannes Film Festival delivered its first honours on Thursday with a historic prize for Malaysia’s “Tiger Stripes” while African movies continued to enjoy the Cannes spotlight with the screening of “Mambar Pierrette”, an intimate portrait of a free-spirited seamstress and single mother in Cameroon. Its director, Rosine Mbakam, sat…

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