By Esther Claudette Gittens In February 2025, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14204, titled “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,” effectively halting all U.S. financial assistance to South Africa. This decision was primarily driven by concerns over South Africa’s land expropriation policies and its legal actions against Israel at the International […]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 75th Birthday Party held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, USA on September 18, 2006. (Shutterstock) By Andrew Harding, BBC Desmond Tutu is remembered with so much joy and affection by so many different people around the world today, that it may seem hard […]
Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 75th Birthday Party held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, USA on September 18, 2006. (Shutterstock) South Africans say “the Sun has gone down” following the death of Desmond Tutu at the age of 90. Archbishop Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for […]
By Andrew Harding, BBC News South African scientists – hailed for their discovery of Omicron – are investigating the “highly plausible hypothesis” that the emergence of new Covid-19 variants could be linked, in some cases, to mutations taking place inside infected people whose immune systems have already been weakened by other factors, including, though not […]
When the majority of people think about a visit to South Africa, they think about the Big Five game animals: the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and Cape buffalo. Safari tours are very popular in that area, as visitors get a chance to interact with wildlife. A trip to South Africa is considered incomplete if you […]