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South Africa gold mine: Thousands of volunteers help to free trapped miners
Thousands of volunteers have turned up outside an abandoned South African gold mine to help rescue thousands of miners feared to be trapped deep underground.
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ANC loses majority in South Africa after 30 years
The African National Congress party has lost its majority in South Africa’ parliament for the first time since the collapse of apartheid thirty years ago.
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Olympian Oscar Pistorius released on parole 11 years after killing girlfriend
The former Paralympian and Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has been released on bail from prison in South Africa – almost eleven years since he murdered his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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The vigilante movement targeting immigrants to ‘clean up’ communities in South Africa
A movement accused of violence and xenophobia is targeting immigrants in areas struggling with soaring poverty, unemployment and crime.
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South Africa’s president pays tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu as his body is laid to rest
South Africa’s president paid tribute to the anti-apartheid campaigner Desmond Tutu at his state funeral in Cape Town today, describing him as the ‘the spiritual father of our new nation.’ The pared back ceremony was attended by 100 mourners and was broadcast earlier today. He died last Sunday, aged 90.
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South Africa’s Covid journey: inequality and anger
From harsh lockdowns that have exacerbated inequality to the struggle to get jabs in arms.
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What are the symptoms of the Omicron variant?
One of those speaking to parliamentarians today was Angelique Coetzee, a doctor in South Africa and chair of their medical association.
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“I am so worried” says sick London nurse stuck in Africa
The speed with which travel restrictions were brought in for parts of Southern Africa have left some British travellers unable to come back home.
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Inside Johannesburg’s Alexandra township after days of unrest sparked by jailing of Jacob Zuma
We spoke to a reporter with South African TV station ENCA, Masego Rahlaga, who was in the Alexandra township in Johannesburg, where police were retrieving items looted from nearby stores.
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Dozens killed in South Africa violence sparked by jailing of former president Zuma
At least 72 people have been killed in days of violence in South Africa, fuelled by long-running anger over poverty and inequality and sparked by last week’s imprisonment of former president Jacob Zuma.
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Jacob Zuma: Unrest in South Africa as jailed former president challenges sentence
In South Africa, six people have been killed and more than 200 arrested as violence escalates over the jailing of former president Jacob Zuma.
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Jacob Zuma: Former South Africa President sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt
South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after he was found guilty of contempt of court.
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South African President refuses to step down – but sources says process of removal underway
The South African president Jacob Zuma has reportedly been recalled by the top committee of his party after an all-day meeting which is still under way outside Pretoria. Although there has been no official word from inside sources say the process to remove him from office is now underway. Our International Editor Lindsey Hilsum is…
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South Africa in deadlock trying to oust President Zuma
South Africa is expected to finally learn if their president Jacob Zuma will resign or be forced from office tomorrow. The future of the embattled president has been in doubt for some time. But at an event in Cape Town marking 28 years since Nelson Mandela was released from prison, the ANC’s president and Zuma’s…
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Christopher Hill on Winter Olympics: North Korea ‘trying to decouple US from South Korea’
Former US Ambassador to South Korea, Christopher Hill. discusses the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, where North and South Korea marched together under a single flag.