Ramaphosa: Gaza ceasefire won’t halt South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed that the recent US-brokered Gaza ceasefire will not affect his country’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Speaking in parliament on Tuesday in Cape Town, Ramaphosa said South Africa remains committed to its 2023 legal action. “The peace deal… will have no bearing […]
US revokes visas over comments made about Charlie Kirk’s death
The Trump administration has cancelled the visas of at least six people for public comments made about the murder of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk. In a post on X, the State Department said: “The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.” Sam BusaURL
Trump remaking refugee system to favor white and English-speaking people: report
President Donald Trump came under heavy criticism earlier this year for using the U.S. refugee resettlement program to take in white Afrikaners, based on far-right conspiracy theories of a “white genocide” in South Africa that are debunked by local police statistics and other data. Sam BusaURL
Erika Kirk honors late husband Charlie in emotional White House tribute: ‘A free man made fully free’
At a White House ceremony in the Rose Garden on Tuesday on what would have been her husband’s 32nd birthday, Erika Kirk accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of Charlie Kirk and delivered a powerful, deeply personal tribute to his life and legacy. Sam BusaURL
The end of medical aid tax credits in South Africa
The National Department of Health (NDOH) says that it is in talks with the National Treasury over changes to the medical aid tax credit regime in the country, with the ultimate goal to get rid of the rebate. Sam BusaURL
Court order has created ‘existential crisis’, says ANC, as it moves to unfreeze bank accounts
The ANC will, on Tuesday, 21 October, seek to urgently overturn a court order attaching its bank accounts, as its national operations are at ‘an abrupt and complete standstill’. Sam BusaURL
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South Africa debates changing name of world-famous Kruger park
South Africa’s world-famous Kruger National Park could become known by a new name if some local politicians have their way. The vast wildlife sanctuary, called the Sabi Game Reserve at the time, was re-christened in 1926 to honour Paul Kruger. He was president in the late 19th Century of what was known as the South […]
La Niña officially arrives. Here’s what it means for winter in the US
La Niña has returned for a second consecutive go-around this autumn and winter, and it could have a noticeable influence on seasonal weather patterns. Water temperatures in the central Pacific Ocean dropped to 0.5 degrees Celsius below average (-0.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the latest measurements by NOAA’s National Climate Prediction Center, triggering a La Niña […]
Is There Any Hope for South Africa?
South Africa has regressed into an ideologically-driven socialist-communist abyss of poverty, crime, corruption and systemic dysfunction at all levels: local, state and national – all in 30 years since the end of Apartheid. Sam BusaURL