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Several workers are shown wearing blue protective suits and carrying a white coffin while walking in at a grave site with several white crosses.

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

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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.

Looters outside a shopping centre alongside a burning barricade in Durban, South Africa

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

Violence
A woman is shown walking past a row of smoking buildings from a fire and fire trucks.

Dozens killed in South Africa violence over Zuma imprisonment

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Large container ship being pulled by a tugboat

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

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Zapiro drew this cartoon to accompany the Mail & Guardian’s 2013 expose on the lavish state-funded ‘security improvements’ made to Jacob Zuma’s private home in Nkandla in KwaZulu-Natal province. They included a visitor's center, amphitheater, additional h

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

Global Satire
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Two friends from South Africa share the Goldman Environmental Prize

Environment

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.

President Cyril Ramaphosa delivers his State of the Nation address

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

Global Politics

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.

ANC members celebrate after Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president of the ANC in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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

Global Politics

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?

Protesters hold placards as they march in South Africa's capital to protest against President Jacob Zuma in Pretoria, South Africa, April 12 ,2017.

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

Global Politics

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.

Protesters carry placards as they take part in a 'Zuma must fall' demonstration in Pretoria, South Africa December 16, 2015.

The real results of South Africa’s hashtag campaigns

Justice

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

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