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But the president "does not have the authority" to create a visa or citizenship rule without Congress, experts say

Magistrates said it was not proven that Angus Beukes, who is from South Africa, understood that the word is offensive.

South Africa took over the presidency of the G20 at the end of 2024. Since then the world has become a more complex, unpredictable and dangerous place. The most powerful state in the world, the US, seems intent on undermining the existing order that it created and on demonstrating its…

Palladium is a rare precious metal that comes primarily from Russia and South Africa. After reaching a high of $3,425 per ounce in early 2022, the price plunged and was trading on either side of $1,000 per ounce in March 2025.

Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular conditions account for over 70% of global deaths annually.

The United States has withdrawn from a climate agreement where rich nations have pledged billions of dollars to help a small group of developing countries switch from coal to green energy sources

It’s become common to see kids, some in their school uniforms, puffing on a vape.

The United States has pulled out of a climate funding deal struck by rich nations to help their developing counterparts transition to clean energy, the programme's first beneficiary South Africa and Indonesia said Thursday.

One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa, which became known as the Taung child skull.