Fri 23 January 2026: The downturn has been compounded by softer buying in the United States and China. Botswana is sitting on nearly double its permitted diamond stockpile as weak prices and rising competition from lab‑grown stones curb demand, the government said, warning the glut will weigh on economic growth. The cash-strapped southern African country, […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: Here’s what’s happening in *South Africa today:* 👇🏼 ◼️ SA police not yet able to defeat gangs: Gang violence, alongside robberies, accounts for many murders in South Africa, which has one of the world’s highest homicide rates. Cachalia said gang violence had become increasingly complex, especially in the Eastern Cape and […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: The recent floods in South Africa have caused extensive damage to the country’s largest and world-renowned game reserve, Kruger National Park, with losses estimated at nearly half a billion rand (about 30 million U.S. dollars). South African Minister of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment Willie Aucamp made the remarks at a […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: The apex court confirms that customary marriages remain valid and continuous even if followed by a civil union. The Constitutional Court of South Africa ruled on Wednesday that antenuptial contracts signed after a customary marriage are invalid. This landmark judgment clarifies that a customary marriage does not end when a couple […]
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Fri 23 January 2026: South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal dismissed a plea on Thursday that sought to stop Nelson Mandela’s eldest daughter, Makaziwe, and a former prison warden, from auctioning some of the late icon’s artifacts. The South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA), the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture and the Robben Island […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: Caledonia is also arranging a $150 million funding facility with a consortium of Zimbabwean and South African banks. US mining company Caledonia Corporation said it raised $150 million via a seven-year convertible bond offering to fund its Bilboes project, which, once operational, will be Zimbabwe’s largest gold mine. Zimbabwe-focused Caledonia’s debt […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: One in five mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini is now threatened with extinction, according to a new regional “Red List,” highlighting rising pressures from habitat loss and degradation. The latest Mammal Red List, released on Wednesday by the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) in partnership with the South African National […]
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Thu 22 January 2026: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ Trump reignites ‘white genocide’ claims against SA: “What’s happening in South Africa is terrible. It’s a terrible situation. What they’re doing to people, a certain group of people, is unbelievable. You wouldn’t think it could happen today,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday after […]
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Image: Clive Stafford Smith arrived in Johannesburg on Wednesday, 21 January 2025. Credit: Ebrahim Essay /Salaamedia Thu 22 January 2026: For more than two decades, the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui has remained one of the most contested human rights cases associated with the global war on terror. A Pakistani neuroscientist educated in the United […]
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Wed 21 January 2026: Aid workers report growing numbers of severely malnourished or seriously ill children at displacement camps. Somalia is facing a deepening health and nutrition emergency as consecutive failed rainy seasons, soaring water prices and sharp cuts to humanitarian aid drive a surge in malnutrition and outbreaks of preventable diseases, Doctors Without Borders, […]
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