Jacob Zuma

July 15, 2021

Top of The World: Outbreaks of the coronavirus are spreading across Asia, with Indonesia becoming a new hot spot. And, South Africa has deployed 25,000 National Defence Force troops to quell rioting and looting in the country. Also, officials in Pakistan, who are investigating a bus explosion, said on Thursday that they had identified traces of explosives.

Violence

South Africa’s democracy is ‘standing firm’ despite civil unrest, says analyst

The World

July 13, 2021

William Gumede, the executive chairperson of the Democracy Works Foundation in South Africa, discusses the recent civil unrest in South Africa with The World’s host Marco Werman.

Top of The World

Dozens killed in South Africa violence over Zuma imprisonment

The World

July 13, 2021

Top of The World: Dozens of people have died in continued rioting in two South African provinces that began last week in response to the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. And, at least 64 people have died and more than 100 others have been injured in a fire at the COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital in Iraq's southern city of Nasiriya. Also, the Taliban has warned Turkey against taking over the security of the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, after the US troop withdrawal from the country.

Top of The World

'Formal solution' reached over Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal

The World

July 05, 2021

Egypt agrees to a deal to release the impounded Ever Given container ship blocking the Suez Canal. And, a ransomware attack has affected hundreds of companies worldwide. Plus, supporters of former South African President Jacob Zuma have surrounded his home as a human shield to prevent his arrest.

Global Satire

This South African cartoonist draws on 20 years of Zuma 'WTF' scandals

The World

May 21, 2019

Zapiro has spent more than two decades drawing the scandals and peccadillos of Jacob Zuma — and been sued along the way.

Environment

Two friends from South Africa share the Goldman Environmental Prize

Living on Earth

May 19, 2018

Two winners of the 2018 Goldman Environmental Prize were a team of grassroots activists from South Africa. Their efforts quashed a secret deal between Russia and the South African government to build expensive and wasteful nuclear power plants.

Global Politics

South Africa's new president says the nation will face tough decisions as it rebuilds its economy

Reuters

February 17, 2018

South Africa will face "tough decisions" as it works to repair its economy after years of stagnation, new President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a sober address on Friday.

Global Politics

Young South Africans once worshipped the ANC. Now 'the party of Mandela' is tarnished.

The World

December 20, 2017

This week Cyril Ramaphosa was elected the new president of South Africa's African National Congress. It was seen as a modest victory for reformers. But will it be enough to restore young South Africans' faith in the party and country?

Global Politics

Rival South African parties unite to protest President Zuma — on his birthday

Agence France-Presse

April 13, 2017

Rival South African opposition parties joined forces on Wednesday when tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital Pretoria calling for President Jacob Zuma to resign.

Justice

The real results of South Africa's hashtag campaigns

GlobalPost

December 17, 2015

Wednesday’s protests in the major cities of Johannesburg, Cape Town and Pretoria drew thousands of largely middle class South Africans. They called for Zuma to resign or be “recalled” by his party, the African National Congress, which was returned to power in 2014

Jacob Zuma

Indonesia new COVID hot spot with surge in coronavirus cases pushed by Delta variant

South Africa’s democracy is ‘standing firm’ despite civil unrest, says analyst

Dozens killed in South Africa violence over Zuma imprisonment

'Formal solution' reached over Ever Given container ship in the Suez Canal

This South African cartoonist draws on 20 years of Zuma 'WTF' scandals

Two friends from South Africa share the Goldman Environmental Prize

South Africa's new president says the nation will face tough decisions as it rebuilds its economy

Young South Africans once worshipped the ANC. Now 'the party of Mandela' is tarnished.

Rival South African parties unite to protest President Zuma — on his birthday

The real results of South Africa's hashtag campaigns

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