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South Africa's ANC fails in bid to ban former leader Zuma's party from polls

Mar. 26, 2024 06:11 AM EDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African court on Tuesday dismissed the ruling party's case demanding a rival opposition party be deregistered and banned from participating in the upcoming election. The Electoral Court said the ruling African National Congress party's objection to how...

Taps have run dry across South Africa's largest city in an unprecedented water crisis

Mar. 21, 2024 05:04 AM EDT

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — For two weeks, Tsholofelo Moloi has been among thousands of South Africans lining up for water as the country's largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people. Residents rich and poor have never...

Investigators search the home of South Africa's Parliament Speaker over bribery allegations

Mar. 19, 2024 13:07 PM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A special investigations unit in South Africa searched the home of the Speaker of Parliament for more than five hours Tuesday and seized evidence as part of a probe into accusations that she accepted bribes in her previous role as defense minister. ...

South Africa's foreign minister says citizens fighting with Israeli forces in Gaza will be arrested

Mar. 13, 2024 13:57 PM EDT

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's foreign minister says her country's citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home, deepening the rift between the nations after South Africa lay accusations of genocide against Israel...

The Latest | South Africa says UN court should order Israel to let more aid into Gaza

Mar. 06, 2024 16:51 PM EST

South Africa has gone back to the United Nations’ top court seeking additional orders for Israel to let humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, citing “widespread starvation” in the devastated Palestinian territory. After nearly five months of war, much of Gaza is in ruins....

South Africa urges top UN court to impose more emergency orders on Israel to end starvation in Gaza

Mar. 06, 2024 15:55 PM EST

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Citing “widespread starvation” in Gaza, South Africa on Wednesday urged the United Nations' top court to order Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the war-torn region, as part of an ongoing case alleging that Israel's military campaign in Gaza breaches the...

South African soldier kills a colleague and himself in eastern Congo

Mar. 02, 2024 06:12 AM EST

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African soldier deployed in Congo has shot dead a colleague and then turned the gun on himself, authorities said Saturday. The South African National Defense Force, which oversees the country's armed forces, said the soldier used his official service...

Open letter urges Venice Biennale art show to exclude Israel. Italy's culture minister pushes back

Feb. 28, 2024 13:33 PM EST

MILAN (AP) — Thousands of artists, curators and critics have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Biennale to exclude the Israeli national pavilion from this year’s contemporary art fair due to the war in Gaza, but Italy’s culture minister firmly backed Israel’s participation. ...

Namibian President Hage Geingob laid to rest at Heroes' Acre cemetery after state funeral

Feb. 25, 2024 23:25 PM EST

WINDHOEK, Namibia (AP) — Namibian President Hage Geingob was laid to rest in the country's Heroes' Acre cemetery on Sunday following a state funeral attended by African leaders, the German president and Princess Anne, the sister of Britain's King Charles III. Geingob died earlier...

9 people have died in a road crash in South Africa after attending a ruling party election rally

Feb. 25, 2024 09:36 AM EST

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Nine people were killed in a road crash in South Africa on Sunday after attending an election rally by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling African National Congress party. The ANC supporters were traveling on a bus back to their home province of...