January 14
South Africa: SA's Genocide Case Against Israel Could End the Humanitarian Catastrophe in Gaza, Says Amnesty International
Aid organisations, solidarity campaigns and scholars have voiced their support for South Africa's genocide case against Israel, which concluded on Friday afternoon at the… Read more »
November 26, 2023
South Africa: Crime Rate Exacts a Huge Toll On the Economy, Says World Bank
The bank's findings reveal the price extracted from the public and private sectors -- and ordinary citizens -- by the country's high crime rate. Essentially, it's yet another tax. Read more »
November 15, 2023
South Africa: Ramaphosa Asks International Criminal Court to Probe War Crimes Charges Against Israel
During his state visit in Doha, Qatar, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa had taken steps towards laying a formal complaint with the International Criminal Court… Read more »
November 05, 2023
Africa: Big Shortfall in Climate Funding Needed By Developing Countries Is 'Hugely Worrying' - UNEP
The funding developing countries need to deal with the present impacts of climate change (adaptation finance) is 50% bigger than previously thought, with Unep estimating the… Read more »
August 21, 2023
South Africa: IMF Voting Power Doesn't Reflect What the Brics Countries Claim
Few things have been debated more thoroughly and at greater length than the IMF voting system. The current system is the product of more than a decade of negotiations. Read more »
August 20, 2023
South Africa: Wholesale Review of Immigration Regimen May See South Africa (Temporarily) Exit UN Convention On Refugees
South Africa could drop out from the United Nations refugee convention, while also repealing its domestic refugee, immigration and citizenship laws in efforts to 'reshape the… Read more »
August 14, 2023
South Africa: UN Representative Calls On SA to Move Beyond Harmful Apartheid Pesticide Laws
A special mission to South Africa by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights has expressed deep concern for the continuing legacy of environmental racism… Read more »
August 01, 2023
South Africa: Our Food Systems Are Broken - Now Is the Time for Deeper Change, UN Summit Hears
While how to achieve food systems transformation may not yet be clear to many countries, the fact that it needs to happen is - and the summit did succeed in setting several new… Read more »
June 28, 2023
South Africa: South Africa Included in Gates-Led Clinical Trial of New TB Vaccine Hailed As Potential Game-Changer
A Phase 3 clinical trial for M72, a new candidate vaccine against pulmonary tuberculosis will be conducted in South Africa. The head of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda… Read more »
April 05, 2023
Zimbabwe: 'Pathway to Hope' - It's Time to Give Zimbabwe Back to the People
Zanu-PF today is a ruling party steeped in patronage politics and captured by rogue capitalists and criminals of all stripes who are making millions out of a crooked system while… Read more »
April 25, 2023
South Africa: Ramaphosa Announces Country's Withdrawal From ICC, Then Presidency Says He Was Mistaken
After the announcement, the Helen Suzman Foundation's Nicole Fritz tweeted: 'Hope whoever briefed the President gives him a fulsome apology. Diplomatic crises resulting from… Read more »
October 12, 2022
South Africa: Country Abstains On a UN General Assembly Resolution Condemning Russia - Again
South Africa abstained from a United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia for its holding of referendums in four occupied Ukrainian provinces last month before… Read more »
July 31, 2022
Africa: Activists at Aids Conference Protest 'Systemic Racism' Behind Visa Denials and Lack of Funding Driving New Deaths
'Another minute, another death! AIDS is not over!' chant protestors as controversy engulfs an international AIDS conference in Canada. Read more »
July 05, 2022
South Africa: UN Development Agency Slammed for Support of 'Flawed' Chinese Industrial Mega-Project in Limpopo
Representatives of a group of civil society organisations are calling for the United Nations Development Programme to retract a Memorandum of Understanding signed with the… Read more »
June 19, 2022
South Africa: COP26 President to Visit South Africa to Accelerate Just Energy Transition Partnership
Alok Sharma, the head of the global climate summit, will visit South Africa this week to boost implementation of the energy transition project, designed to help the country move… Read more »
June 15, 2022
Africa: World Trade Organisation Urged to Scrap 'Limiting' Trips Waiver
More than 150 civil society organisations from around the world are pushing for a 'real' TRIPS waiver to be adopted by the time a World Trade Organisation conference wraps up on… Read more »