The Latest Breaking News from South Africa

Director Janaína Nagata places her own internet research into South African history side by side with the vintage 16mm home movie footage that inspired it

Pesticides deemed too dangerous for Europe continue to be made here and exported. South Africa’s farm workers have had enough.

In a rare move, the Trump administration expelled Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, in mid-March 2025. In a post on X, US secretary of state Marco Rubio accused Rasool of hating the US and President Donald Trump, and said the ambassador was “no longer welcome in our great…

A secluded corner near South Africa’s capital is home to dozens of people with drug addiction

The AGOA framework that saw African countries export duty free to the US is as good as dead, experts say.

The small African kingdom of Lesotho feared the worst for its textile industry Thursday after US President Donald Trump imposed 50-percent tariffs on its imports, the highest for a single nation.

President Donald Trump has announced plans for sweeping tariffs

South Africa’s goal since 2012 has been to build a capable and developmental state to address the twin challenges of poverty and inequality. The country’s National Development Plan defines a capable state as “well-run and effectively coordinated state institutions with skilled public servants”. A transformative and developmental role is about…

Eddy Maloka, the South African historian, diplomat and academic, argues in his latest book the case for South Africa to forge a “second republic”. What is meant by this is left undefined, but emerges as the making of a new constitution, establishing new institutions.