South Africa's battle to defeat rhino poaching has taken a turn for the worse with the numbers killed rising in 2023.
Last year, 499 rhinos were hunted, an increase of 51 from the previous year, Environment Minister Barbara Creecy said.
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South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma has been suspended by the ANC he used to lead, after refusing to vote for them and launching a rival party.
The governing African National Congress (ANC) announced its decision on Monday.
Zuma's new party, (...)
Police in Gauteng have arrested a suspect in connection with the fire that tore through a five-story building in central Johannesburg last year and killed 77 people, South African public broadcaster SABC reported Tuesday.
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Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee Paralympic and Olympic sprinter, was released from prison on parole on Friday, more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, in a killing that shocked the world.
A parole board granted (...)
A stowaway was found alive but in critical condition in the undercarriage bay of an Air Algeria airplane at Paris Orly airport on Thursday morning, December 28, a security source briefed on the matter told Reuters.
The person was in a (...)
Award-winning South African Afro-pop singer Bulelwa Mkutukana, popularly known as Zahara, has died, the country's culture minister announced.
She had been in hospital, reportedly with liver complications, and the government had been assisting the (...)
An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers and injured 75, the mine's operator says.
Impala Platinum chief executive Nico Muller described it as the "darkest day" in the the company's history.
The company said the accident (...)
Oscar Pistorius will be released on parole in January, prison authorities announced Friday, drawing criticism from Reeva Steenkamp's mother, who said she did not believe the South African athlete had been rehabilitated since he murdered her daughter (...)
Zoleka Mandela, granddaughter of South Africa's first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela, has died of cancer at the age of 43.
She passed away on Monday evening surrounded by friends and family, a spokesperson said.
In recent years, Ms (...)
The President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, stating that while every human effort should be directed towards realizing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, "our energies have once again been (...)
South African vigilante group Operation Dudula has become notorious for raiding businesses belonging to foreign nationals and forcing shops to close. BBC Africa Eye has gained rare access to members of the country's most prominent anti-migrant (...)
Mourners have gathered for the funeral of veteran South African politician and Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
He has been granted a state funeral in honor of his contribution to the fight against white-minority rule.
As a mark of respect, the (...)
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, a towering figure in South African politics and outspoken Zulu chief, has died at the age of 95.
During the racist apartheid regime, he founded the Zulu Inkatha party after becoming disillusioned with the African National (...)
A deadly fire in Johannesburg's inner city was "a wake-up call" for South Africa, says President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Seventy-four people were killed — including 12 children — after a blaze in a five-story building, which was being occupied by homeless (...)
At least 73 people have died and dozens more were injured after a fire tore through a five-story building in central Johannesburg which housed "hundreds" of informal settlements.
Authorities said they have moved through the building floor by floor, (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he will not attend the G20 Summit in Delhi next month.
India is hosting this year's summit, which will be held in the capital Delhi from 9-10 September.
Putin rang (...)
India and China have agreed to de-escalate tensions along their disputed border after a conversation between its leaders, a senior Indian official said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping spoke on the sidelines of the Brics summit (...)
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have been invited to become members of the BRICS group of developing nations in its first expansion in over a decade.
Also joining next year will be Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and Argentina, South African (...)
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan met on Thursday with the Indonesian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Retno Marsudi, on the sidelines of the BRICS-Africa Outreach and BRICS Plus Dialogue, currently being held in (...)
Indians around the world have united with pride and excitement after the South Asian nation on Wednesday became the first country to soft-land a spacecraft on the moon's unexplored South Pole, and only the fourth country to reach the lunar (...)
JOHANNESBURG — Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan affirmed that the Kingdom will assess the invitation extended by BRICS for membership and make an appropriate decision.
"In its foreign policy, the Kingdom focuses on building (...)
JOHANNESBURG — Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan praised on Thursday the distinguished strategic relationship between the Kingdom and the BRICS group. In his speech, delivered on behalf of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin (...)
India "fully supports the expansion" of the BRICS group, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said, as the leaders of the five major emerging economies met for the second day of the BRICS summit.
"We welcome moving forward with consensus on this," Modi (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Tuesday unexpectedly skipped a business forum of the BRICS economic group in South Africa, sending his commerce minister instead to deliver a fiery speech in his name that decried US hegemony.
Xi, who arrived in (...)
RIYADH — On behalf of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan is leading Saudi Arabia's delegation attending the BRICS Plus Dialogue and BRICS-Africa Outreach conference. The foreign minister (...)