In response to US President Donald Trump’s budget cuts, ICS2025 will provide an opportunity for dialogue between affected nations, economic leaders, and policymakers to address the foreign aid deficit
In response, the presidency said the Constitution ‘provided for such matters to be decided by the courts in the event of a dispute’
The department of international relations and cooperation said the order failed to recognise South Africa’s ‘profound and painful history of colonialism and apartheid’
The country faces a deepened risk of being kicked out of the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade pact
Behind the bitter press conferences, buried beneath the combative media headlines, realpolitik was at work
The president warned about nationalism and protectionism and said South Africa would not change its values or policies
Without mentioning US President Donald Trump by name, President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday sent a message to Washington in his State of the Nation address that South Africa will not abandon policies which its new administration this week branded “anti-Americanism”. Ramaphosa said the world was contending with climate change and violent conflict while “witnessing the […]
The US secretary of state communicated his decision on X and opened up a new front of contestation with South Africa
The presidency said it remained in the dark as to the real cause for Donald Trump’s decision to cut aid and suggested proper communication can prevent a rift
President Cyril Ramaphosa hopes to hold discussions with the US’s Donald Trump to move beyond ‘current disturbances’ in South Africa’s relationship with Washington
The mineral and petroleum resources minister also told the mining indaba that the African continent must take charge of its mineral wealth
The presidency downplayed the effect of Trump’s freeze on all donor funding to South Africa
The Expropriation Bill was signed into law; the families of victims of apartheid-era human rights violations want to know why the TRC recommendations haven’t been implemented, and the court has ordered that shortfalls in social grants be addressed
The 2025 law differs from the old Act in that it includes fixing skewed land patterns, and introduces compensation based on ‘justice and equity’ and not ‘willing buyer, willing seller’
The ANC says the DA leader’s outbursts reflect his insecurity about his future
Expropriation law is not a tool of punishment or reparation, it is a tool of social improvement that can only be used under exceptional circumstances