South Africans have condemned Irish airline Ryanair for making them take a test in the Afrikaans language on UK flights, calling it discriminatory.
The country has 11 official languages, and many say they cannot understand Afrikaans — a language (...)
Two brothers from the wealthy Gupta family have been arrested in the United Arab Emirates, the South African government has announced.
Atul and Rajesh Gupta are accused in South Africa of profiting from their close links with former president Jacob (...)
President of the Republic of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa received here yesterday, Friday, the Advisor at the Saudi Royal Court, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Qattan and the accompanying delegation, currently on a visit to South Africa.
During the meeting, (...)
A man has been arrested after a large fire severely damaged the Houses of Parliament in the South African city of Cape Town, BBC reported.
A police spokesperson said the man was facing charges of arson, housebreaking and theft, and would appear in (...)
South Africa has lifted overnight curfew rules, with officials saying the country may have passed the peak of its fourth wave of Covid-19 infections, BBC reported.
A government statement said the Omicron variant, while highly transmissible, had seen (...)
Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at age 90, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday.
An uncompromising foe of (...)
Serge Brammertz, Prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals – the judicial body that assumed the remaining work of the two UN war crimes tribunals in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia – updated the Security Council on (...)
"Humiliating and degrading," is how activist Zulaikha Patel describes some of the racist experiences she and fellow students of color endured at Pretoria High School for Girls in South Africa.
Pretoria High is a former whites-only government school (...)
The program has been announced Wednesday for the first philosophy conference that will take place in Saudi Arabia at the King Fahd National Library in Riyadh.
Hosted by the Saudi Ministry of Culture's Literature, Publishing and Translation (...)
The first real-world data showing the coronavirus variant Omicron may evade some of our immunity has been reported by scientists in South Africa, according to BBC News
Scientists have detected a surge in the number of people catching Covid multiple (...)
Health officials say the new coronavirus variant Omicron has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving a sharp increase in new infections, BBC reported.
Some 8,500 new Covid infections were registered in the latest daily figures.
That is (...)
The world is in a "race against time" with the Omicron coronavirus variant, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday, according to CNN.
During a visit to Latvia, she warned that scientists and manufacturers will need weeks (...)
South Africa's president has condemned travel bans enacted against his country and its neighbors over the new coronavirus variant Omicron, BBC reported.
Cyril Ramaphosa said he was "deeply disappointed" by the action, which he described as (...)
The people in South Africa who have caught the Omicron strain of COVID-19 have not become seriously ill, according to the country's medical association.
So far, the cases detected in South Africa are not serious, Angelique Coetzee, who chairs the (...)
Young people in South Africa changed their attitudes significantly and adopted safer sexual behavior, after watching a TV show called Down South – which the UN initiative behind it describes as a tribute to the power of "edutainment".
A new report, (...)
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance, represented by the Religious Attaché at the Kingdom's Embassy in Pretoria in South Africa, has launched the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Iftar Program for the South (...)
South Africa reported 2302 new confirmed coronavirus COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours and 58 dead.
In a statement today, the Ministry of Health of South Africa said that the total of those who contracted the disease amounted to 790,000 while (...)
Saudi Ambassador to South Africa Sultan Al-Luaihan Al-Anqer inaugurated here Saturday the program of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques for Ramadan Iftar (breaking fast).
During the opening he provided food baskets to Islamic centers and (...)
Saudi Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa Sultan Al-Luaihan Al-Anqer, inaugurated here today the program of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques for Ramadan Iftar (Breakfast) with the distribution of food baskets for Islamic centers and (...)
Quinton de Kock was on Tuesday named as South Africa's one-day international captain as part of a long term transition plan.
His first assignment will be to lead the team in a three-match series against World Cup champions England, starting in Cape (...)
Italy will next year become the world's first country to make it compulsory for schoolchildren to study climate change and sustainable development, Education Minister Lorenzo Fioramonti said.
Fioramonti, from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, (...)
South Africa aims to complete the split of state utility Eskom in 2022 and open it to more competition under a long-awaited plan to overhaul the loss-making firm and the country's power sector, a government document showed on Tuesday.
President (...)
Argentina go to the World Cup on the back of nine consecutive test defeats which have dropped them down to 11th in the world rankings, not the best of omens for a team in the toughest pool that includes England and France.
Yet the Pumas are (...)
South Africa and Nigeria stepped security on Wednesday after deadly attacks on foreign-owned stores in Johannesburg triggered reprisal assaults on South African businesses in Nigerian cities.
The center of Johannesburg and the impoverished suburb of (...)
Loose-forward Juan Manuel Leguizamon will follow a select group of Argentines to have played in four Rugby World Cup finals after he was named in the country's 31-man squad for next month's tournament in Japan.
The 36-year-old, who made his (...)
