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Former South African president Jacob Zuma has defended Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, claiming that President Vladimir Putin felt provoked and was justified in his response to invade Ukraine to stop it from joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
The 12-day-old Russia-Ukraine war “needs to be resolved through mediation, negotiation and peaceful means”, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday.
US carrier United Airlines will launch flights between Washington DC’s Dulles International Airport and Cape Town International Airport in November, the airline announced on Saturday.
South Africa extended by three months to the end of April the deployment of its troops in northern Mozambique where they are involved in fighting an Islamic State-linked insurgency, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Friday.
The South African government is investigating the activities of the four individuals who were this week designated as financial facilitators of Islamic State operations on the continent, a senior official said.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has set up a taskforce to compile its response to recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that probed allegations of high-level corruption during former president Jacob Zuma’s tenure.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged local authorities to improve service delivery in their municipalities to attract investors and create conditions that make residents feel they are not being short-changed.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court is on Thursday expected to make a ruling on whether it is a criminal offence for children to possess or use cannabis.
A South African court on Wednesday ruled that Misuzulu kaZwelithini should be crowned Zulu king despite resistance from some members of the royal family.
The United States has imposed sanctions on four South Africa-based alleged funders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and ISIS-Mozambique in a move meant to dismantle financial support networks for terrorist groups across the continent.