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Jacob Zuma To Face Trial For Corruption

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption relating to a...

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Jacob Zuma To Face Trial For Corruption

South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma, is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption, Chief Prosecutor...

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Ramaphosa Reshuffles Cabinet

New South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced his cabinet, making substantial changes to ministerial...

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Ramaphosa Promises To ‘follow Mandela’s Footsteps’

New South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged South Africans to continue the “long walk” Nelson Mandela...

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Akufo-Addo Lauds Jacob Zuma For Resigning

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has commended Jacob Zuma for showing “patriotism and statesmanship” for...

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South Africa: Gupta Family Home Raided By Police

South Africa’s elite police unit have raided the home of the controversial Gupta family as the investigation into...

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South Africa: ANC ‘decides Zuma Must Go’

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) will formally ask for President Jacob Zuma to resign after he...

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South Africa: ANC Leaders Expected To Ask President Zuma To Resign

Leaders of South Africa’s governing ANC party are meeting to decide the future of President Jacob Zuma. The National...

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Fake News, Torture, Cover-Ups

Police brutality, "fake news" propaganda and official cover-ups at the height of apartheid have been laid bare in a...

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South Africa Ex-Finance Minister Calls For Zuma To Go

South Africa's respected former finance minister Pravin Gordhan called Tuesday for President Jacob Zuma to resign,...

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South African ‘political’ Murderer In Parole Limbo

Inside South Africa's maximum security Groenpunt prison, hawk-eyed guards stroll between rows of wooden benches,...

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S.Africa’s Zuma Tries To Quell High-Risk Succession Battle

South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday sought to calm an increasingly fractious battle to succeed him that is...

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S.Africa’s Zuma Admits ANC Damaged By Corruption

South African President Jacob Zuma admitted Friday the ruling ANC party is beset by corruption and divisions that could...

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South Africa Confronts Apartheid-Era Custody Deaths

The brutal death of anti-apartheid campaigner Ahmed Timol was allowed to go quietly unsolved in the interests of South...

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Top S.Africa Court Okays Secret Ballots In Zuma No-Confidence Vote

South Africa's highest court on Thursday ruled that lawmakers can cast secret ballots in a no-confidence vote in...

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Joel Joffe, Lawyer Who Defended Mandela, Dies Aged 85

Tributes were paid Tuesday to Joel Joffe, the lawyer who defended Nelson Mandela in the trial that saw the...

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Viewpoint: Africa-Cuba Solidarity Reaffirmed At Namibia Conference

Close bonds between the people of the African continent and the Caribbean island-nation of Cuba have been centuries in...

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S.Africa’s Zille Punished Over Colonialism Tweet

South Africa's main opposition party Tuesday removed former leader Helen Zille from all party leadership roles after a...

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Moody’s Downgrades Top S.African Banks, Insurers, Councils

Credit ratings agency Moody's on Tuesday said it had downgraded a slew of top South African banks, insurers and local...