South Africa Budget Targets the Rich
South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has targeted the rich in his annual budget, announcing a new top tax rate of 45% in his 2017 budget. It will apply to annual incomes of more than 1.5m...
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S.Africa Budget Pushes Redistribution Amid Power Struggle
South Africa's finance minister warned Wednesday of "growing impatience and ferment" over post-apartheid inequality and slow growth as he presented a budget that raised taxes on the wealthy. Pravin...
S. African Court Rules Against Govt Plan To Pull Out of ICC
A South African court on Wednesday ruled the government's plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) was "unconstitutional and invalid", providing a boost to the embattled...
S.Africa Budget Throws Light On Fractured ANC
South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan delivers the annual budget in parliament Wednesday as he battles to revive the economy and head off loyalists of the president who seek to oust him....
Zuma Not Backing Hayatou
South Africa sports minister Fikile Mbalula Monday denied a Confederation of African Football statement that President Jacob Zuma was backing incumbent Issa Hayatou in the CAF leadership race. A CAF...
Zuma Worried That MPs Treat Parliament ‘like Something Worse Than A Beer Hall’
South African President, Jacob Zuma, has bemoaned what he described as ‘unbecoming behaviour’ displayed by some Members of Parliament (MPs) in the country’s legislature. He said the shocking...
South Africa’s Rand Currency ‘rigged By Banks’
Local and international banks have been accused of rigging the price of South Africa's currency, the rand, by the country's competition watchdog. Global giants Barclays, JP Morgan and HSBC are among...
Trump Calls Presidents of Nigeria, South Africa
President Donald Trump has been increasingly chatting with other world leaders during his first weeks in office. On Monday he turned his attention to Africa. Trump spent Monday morning calling two of...
Trump and Zuma Hold Their Phone Call
The South African presidency said in a statement: President Jacob Zuma and President Donald Trump of the United States of America held a telephone conversation this afternoon, 13 February 2017 at the...
Trump To Speak With Zuma and Buhari Today
Donald Trump is expected to speak with the presidents of Nigeria and South Africa later this afternoon. President Jacob Zuma is expecting the call, according to a tweet from his office: Nigerian...
Women ‘too Delicate’ To Lead South Africa
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is tipped to take over from her ex-husband as president of South Africa – but a Xhosa royal family is not convinced she is up to the job… because she is a woman. Xhanti...
Fighting Mars Zuma’s State of Nation Address
Punches have been thrown in South Africa’s parliament as opposition MPs tried to disrupt the State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma. Members of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters’...
Fighting Mars Zuma Annual Address
Punches have been thrown in South Africa’s parliament as opposition MPs tried to disrupt the State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma. Members of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters’...
Fight In South Africa Parliament During Zuma Address
play videoMembers of the Economic Freedom Fighters, wearing red uniforms, clash with security forces Punches have been thrown in South Africa's parliament as radical MPs tried to disrupt the State of...
Punches Thrown During Jacob Zuma’s State of Nation Address
Punches have been thrown in South Africa’s parliament as radical MPs tried to disrupt the State of the Nation address by President Jacob Zuma. Members of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters’...
Prophet Badu Kobi’s Prophecy About Black Stars Comes To Pass
The 39th prophecy by Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi on the 31st Night of last December 2016 has come to pass as prophesied. According to the leader and founder of Glorious Waves Church International...
African Union Backs Mass ICC Withdrawal
Africa has 34 signatories to the Rome Statute, the treaty that set up the court The African Union has called for the mass withdrawal of member states from the International Criminal Court (ICC)....
Amb Quartey Is New AU Commission Deputy Chair
Ambassador Kwesi Quartey, former Secretary to ex-President John Mahama, has been picked to serve as Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission. Mr Quartey’s diplomatic career spans over 30 years of...
Putin’s End Of Year Greetings To BRICS
On the eve of 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin sent Christmas and New Year greetings to heads of state and government including BRICS member countries. In his message to President of the...
A Change Of Portraits… Or Electoral Fortunes…
On Saturday January 7 2017, I took one of my last executive actions as a High Commissioner. I took down President Mahama's portrait at its place of honour on one of the walls of the Head of Mission's...