Tue 11 February 2025: The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) has announced the adjustment to the toll tariffs effective from 1 March 2025. The tariffs are adjusted annually in line with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as obtained from Statistics South Africa (Stats SA). The annual toll tariffs will increase by 4.84%, […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: South Africa – The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) recently opened a treason case against AfriForum at the Cape Town Central Police Station, accusing the organisation of lobbying foreign powers to act against South Africa’s sovereignty and economic interests. The MK Party describes these actions as deliberate economic sabotage and betraying the […]
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Tue 11 February 2025: European Council President Antonio Costa expressed the European Union’s full support Monday for South Africa’s leadership of the G20 during a phone call with President Cyril Ramaphosa. “I highlighted the EU’s commitment to deepen ties with South Africa, as a reliable and predictable partner,’’ Costa said in remarks posted on X. […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Sudan’s foreign minister said on Monday that the war is nearing its end amid military gains against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in the capital Khartoum. “We insist on the implementation of the Jeddah Declaration as a condition for engaging in any future negotiations with the RSF,” Ali Yusuf […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk called for Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema to be sanctioned and declared an international criminal. This followed a video in which Malema accused certain political parties of supporting only its white leaders and advocated targeting “whiteness” in political struggles. In response to this, Musk accused […]
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Mon 10 February 2025: Rights groups and UN agencies have documented systematic abuse against migrants, refugees in Libya including torture, rape and extortion. Libya authorities have uncovered nearly 50 bodies from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert, in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the North African country. The […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: Botswana’s Ministry of Health is scrambling to mitigate the impact of the US government’s decision to suspend support for civil society organizations (CSOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that provide critical HIV/AIDS services. To cushion the blow, the ministry is rolling out emergency measures to ensure continuity of care for affected patients. […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: Nujoma was revered for leading his country to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990. Sam Nujoma, the revolutionary leader who guided Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa in 1990 and served as its first president for 15 years, has died at 95. Hailed as Namibia’s “founding father”, Nujoma passed […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: South Africa’s Afrikaner community Saturday turned down an offer by US President Donald Trump to resettle them as refugees in the US, following claims of racial discrimination. “We don’t want to move elsewhere, and we are not going to ask our children now to move to another country. We have interests […]
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Sun 09 February 2025: The number of internally displaced persons (IDP) in the Horn of Africa rose to 20.75 million at the end of 2024, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday in a report released in Nairobi, capital of Kenya. The United Nations migration agency said that the figure increased from 20.42 million […]
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