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  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    South Africa’s new US envoy brushes off past criticism of ‘racist’ Trump

    Corruption whistleblower Mcebisi Jonas says there will be ‘no quick fixes’ after Washington expelled ambassador

    Mcebisi Jonas speaking at a summit in September 2024
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
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    Trump’s championing of Afrikaner grievances sparks backlash in South Africa

    US president and his adviser Elon Musk seize on discredited claims to launch economic assault against African nation

    Afrikaner families climb a hill in Orania, South Africa
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    South African economy
    South Africa minister says US trade deal ‘nullified’ by Trump tariffs

    Parks Tau backs pivot to China in face of high levies from Donald Trump administration

    Parks Tau
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    South Africa’s coalition in peril after ANC passes budget without partner

    Business-friendly Democratic Alliance votes against the framework following weeks of infighting

    Enoch Godongwana delivers his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    US foreign policy
    South Africa’s ANC calls Trump Afrikaner refugee plan ‘madness’

    Main party in governing coalition dismisses US accusations of white minority oppression

    White South Africans hold signs saying Mr Donald Trump Thank You Very Much
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    South African coalition fights over US ambassador pick

    Parties at odds over who should succeed envoy thrown out by Donald Trump following spat between two countries

    Ebrahim Rasool speaks to the media upon his arrival in Cape Town
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Special ReportFuture of Water
    Mismanagement turns up pressure on South Africa’s water system

    Reservoirs may be full but poor maintenance, lack of investment and criminality are disrupting supplies

    A person collects water from an outdoor tap, filling a yellow bucket while a blue bucket sits below
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    US foreign policy
    US declares South African ambassador ‘persona non grata’

    Secretary of state Marco Rubio expels Ebrahim Rasool after he criticised Donald Trump in an online lecture

    Ebrahim Rasool
  • Monday, 10 March, 2025
    Ruchir Sharma
    The new economic stars born through crisis 

    Financial stress is forcing reform and recovery in many overlooked countries 

    Desalter tanks and pipework at the Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district of Lagos, Nigeria
  • Friday, 7 March, 2025
    Tefaf Maastricht 2025
    African modernists have been unjustly overlooked — until now

    A presentation of mostly 20th-century Nigerian pioneers at Tefaf in Maastricht rides a wave of global recognition

    Vibrant painted faces emerging from colourful columns and orbs in red, blue and green
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa’s government locked in budget stand-off

    Coalition leaders are at loggerheads over fiscal hole partly created by Donald Trump

    Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    ExplainerEU defence
    The options to fund European defence

    Governments are discussing how to boost investment in Europe’s arms industry

    Montage of EU and Union Jack flags with money in the background
  • Wednesday, 19 February, 2025
    South African politics
    South Africa’s budget postponed for first time after cabinet rift

    Officials say pro-business Democratic Alliance and senior figures in African National Congress objected to VAT rise

    Enoch Godongwana exits a building after a press conference
  • Sunday, 16 February, 2025
    News in-depthArcelorMittal South Africa Ltd
    South Africa fights to save its apartheid-era steel mills

    Looming closure of century-old plants threatens to kill manufacturing in continent’s most industrialised economy

    Pipework in the yard of the closed ArcelorMittal Saldanha Works steel plant in South Africa
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    David Pilling
    South Africa has been blindsided by Donald Trump

    The US president’s attacks on the country might actually unite its people

    Cyril Ramaphosa, seen through ranks of uniformed soldiers, arrives at City Hall for the State of the Nation Address in Cape Town
  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    South Africa vows to pursue Israel genocide case despite Trump pressure

    Foreign minister Ronald Lamola says there is ‘no chance’ country will drop case after US orders halt to aid

    South Africa’s then minister of justice Ronald Lamola and ambassador to the Netherlands Vusimuzi Madonsela at the International Court of Justice last year
  • Thursday, 6 February, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Marco Rubio shuns G20 meeting in South Africa over ‘equality’ drive

    Top US diplomat echoes Donald Trump and Elon Musk in condemning promotion of ‘solidarity’ and ‘sustainability’

    US secretary of state Marco Rubio
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    US politics & policy
    State capture by South Africans: a comparative history

    Ajay, Atul, Rajesh, and Elon

  • Tuesday, 4 February, 2025
    South Africa’s coalition clashes over Starlink as Musk attacks equality laws

    Government divided over whether to exempt US satellite company from post-apartheid Black empowerment rules

    A montage featuring Elon Musk on the left and South Africa’s trade minister Parks Tau on the right, with the South African flag and a faded Starlink logo in the background
  • Monday, 3 February, 2025
    Trump pledges to stop US assistance to South Africa over land law

    Rand falls after US president singles out Brics nation over expropriation of properties

    Cyril Ramaphosa addresses supporters at a podium during a rally in Johannesburg
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    DR Congo
    South Africa warns Rwanda of ‘declaration of war’ after assault in DRC

    Regional tensions spiral as SA peacekeepers are killed after Kigali-backed M23 rebel group launches Congo offensive

    M23 rebels patrol in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Wednesday
  • Saturday, 25 January, 2025
    FT Magazine
    The rise of plant poaching: how a craze for succulents is driving a new illegal trade

    In the wilds of South Africa’s Northern Cape, poaching ‘green diamonds’ has become an almost irresistible temptation

    An artistic illustration of various Conophytum, showcasing their diverse shapes and intricate patterns. The colorful succulents range from green with veins to mottled red and speckled beige
  • Friday, 24 January, 2025
    South Africa in emergency talks to save ‘critical’ steel plants

    President Cyril Ramaphosa met Lakshmi Mittal at Davos over ArcelorMittal’s plans to close country’s two largest mills

    ArcelorMittal factory in Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground rescue

    Hundreds more still trapped since August in abandoned gold mine with dozens dead

    Illegal miners sit on the floor after their rescue
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    News in-depth
    Johannesburg’s shuttered main library becomes symbol of city in decay

    One of the greatest repositories of Africana is yet to reopen four years after it was closed for restoration

    Johannesburg City Library
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