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The Trump administration has been criticised for granting refugee status to Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, over people fleeing war and famine.

South Africa’s innovation fund, announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa in the 2025 state of the nation address, was a response to the country’s urgent need for inclusive and sustainable economic growth.

Amnesty International’s 2025 annual report reviews a broad range of human rights issues, highlighting concerns in 150 countries and linking global and regional trends with an eye on the future. In Africa, the organization says the so-called “Trump effect” in the US and beyond has led to an unprecedented neglect…

Green will be unable to bowl at Lord’s against South Africa but could return to the XI as a batter only

It has been ‘painful to watch one group of refugees, selected in a highly unusual manner, receive preferential treatment over others who have been in refugee camps or dangerous conditions for years,’ said the bishop

After just two Tests, Josh Inglis could open in the World Test Championship final after being thrown into the mix to partner Usman Khawaja.

Wall Street jumps as president hails ‘total reset’ with Beijing, while administration stirs controversy with refugee status for white South Africans. Key US politics stories from Monday 12 May 2025 at a glance

Move comes as administration largely closes refugee admissions from countries experiencing widespread violence, poverty.

Trump stirs controversy by calling Afrikaners, minority descended from Dutch colonists, victims of a ‘genocide’