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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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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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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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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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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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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Wed 12 November 2025: The UN Women on Tuesday called for urgent action to protect and prioritize women and girls in Sudan, where the ongoing conflict and deepening hunger crisis have left millions in peril. “For over two consecutive years, every front line in Sudan has cut through the bodies, homes, livelihoods, and futures of […]
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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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Tue 11 November 2025: From Gaza to Darfur, we are told we are witnessing “humanitarian crises” and “failures of diplomacy”. But this language obscures the reality of more than two decades of war that has raged in Sudan, that has only now pierced the veil of global consciousness. Gaza and Darfur are not aberrations. They […]
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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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