SOUTH AFRICA LETS 153 PALESTINIANS DISEMBARK FOLLOWING 12-HOUR PLANE ORDEAL

  Palestinian travellers who arrived at OR Tambo International Airport. Image Credits : SABC NEWS Fri 14 November 2025: Chartered plane carrying group of Palestinian passengers was second to land in South Africa in recent weeks. South Africa has allowed more than 150 Palestinian airline passengers to disembark, after they were kept on a plane […]

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SECRET ELECTRICITY PRICE HIKES IN SOUTH AFRICA TO BE CURBED IN A GAME-CHANGING COURT RULING

Fri 14 November 2025: A recent high court judgment could be a game changer for the setting of municipal electricity tariffs in South Africa. In late October 2025, the court ruled that the process used by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) to decide yearly electricity price hikes was unconstitutional because it stifled public participation and violated […]

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150+ PALESTINIAN REFUGEES STRANDED AT OR TAMBO AFTER ENTRY DENIAL: REPORT

Thu 13 November 2025: A humanitarian crisis is unfolding at OR Tambo International Airport where more than 150 Palestinian refugees reportedly seeking asylum in South Africa have been denied entry and left stranded on an aircraft, News24 reported. The refugees, who arrived from Nairobi, Kenya, on Thursday morning, were denied entry due to missing exit […]

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‘THERE IS NO GENOCIDE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA,’ SAYS AU CHIEF

Thu 13 November 2025: The head of the African Union Commission has rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that Christians are being killed in a genocide in northern Nigeria, telling a UN forum in New York that such characterizations distort a far more complex security crisis. Speaking alongside UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday, Mahmoud Ali […]

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TRUMP’S US BOYCOTT OF G20 SUMMIT IS ‘THEIR LOSS’, SOUTH AFRICA SAYS

Thu 13 November 2025: President Ramaphosa says, ‘The United States needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works because in my experience it doesn’t work.’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says United States President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit next weekend in Johannesburg is “their loss”. The US […]

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HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY | THURSDAY – 13 NOVEMBER 2025

Thu 13 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ ‘Their loss’: “We will take fundamental decisions and their absence is their loss,” President Ramaphosa told reporters in the coastal city of Cape Town. “In many ways, the United States is also giving up the very important role that they should be playing […]

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HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY | WEDNESDAY – 12 NOVEMBER 2025

Wed 12 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in *South Africa today:* 👇🏼 ◼️ Argentina’s Milei reportedly skipping G20: Trump and Milei have openly expressed admiration for one another, with Argentina recently benefiting from a $20 billion currency swap deal. The Department of International Relations and Cooperation told The Citizen on Wednesday morning that no confirmation […]

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HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY | TUESDAY – 11 NOVEMBER 2025

Tue 11 November 2025: Here’s what’s happening in South Africa today: ◼️ MK Party members stuck in Russia-Ukraine war: Seventeen South African men are fighting for their lives on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine after they were sent to Russia by Jacob Zuma’s MK Party for what they believed was training to become […]

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