South Africa, one of the hardest hit countries in the continent, has registered a total of 1,513,393 coronavirus cases and 49,993 deaths so far.
March 1, 2021From May 1, the lockdown will move to level 4 where some businesses will be allowed to resume operations under strict conditions.
April 25, 2020Malema further added to his comment that parliament was wrong to invite to De Klerk. It is a tradition for former presidents to attend the annual address given by a sitting president.
February 14, 2020Protesters gathered in countries as diverse as Guatemala, Russia, Sudan and Turkey, where riot police in Istanbul blocked the path of roughly 2,000 protesters before firing tear gas and plastic bullets to disperse them.
November 26, 2019Zuma faces 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering related to the 1990s arms deal struck when he was deputy president to the country's second black president Thabo Mbeki.
October 15, 2019Zuma, 77, has denied all wrongdoing, and his lawyers have described the inquiry as an attempt to "ambush and humiliate" him.
July 13, 2019The Prime Minister, who is in Osaka for the G20 Summit, congratulated Jair Bolsonaro on being elected as the President of Brazil and welcomed him in the BRICS family.
June 28, 2019Ramaphosa will be sworn in on Saturday and name a deputy president and cabinet at the weekend.
May 23, 2019A Congress delegation led by Gandhi and former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met Ramaphosa, also the President of African National Congress (ANC).
January 26, 2019President Ram Nath Kovind will host Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa, President of Republic of South Africa, at Rajpath; the Republic Day Parade will start with Prime Minister Narendra Modi laying a wreath at the Amar Jawan Jyoti under India Gate, paying homage to the martyrs
January 26, 2019Cyril Ramaphosa will be the second leader from South Africa, after former President Nelson Mandela, to attend India’s Republic Day parade as the chief guest
December 1, 2018Ramaphosa will be the second leader from South Africa to attend India’s Republic Day parade as the chief guest. Former President Nelson Mandela was the chief guest at the 1995 Republic Day parade.
November 16, 2018South African President Cyril Ramaphosa led nearly 5,000 people at the annual ‘Gandhi Walk’ in Lenasia, an Indian township south of Johannesburg, seeking to promote community awareness and fitness among his countrymen. This was the first time that a sitting head of the state joined the walk, now in its 33rd consecutive edition, Gandhi Walk …
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April 16, 2018Winnie, former President Nelson Mandela's wife, died in Johannesburg Monday
April 3, 2018Was it a controversial indictment of corruption that led to the resignation of South African President Jacob Zuma on 14 February? Zuma has all along denied any wrongdoing. Jacob Zuma, one of the colourful compatriots of Nelson Mandela, was elected as the fourth president in May 2009 – that is, since the end of apartheid …
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March 1, 2018South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday resigned from his office with immediate effect making the announcement in a televised address to the nation. The 75-year-old has been under increasing pressure to give way to Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, the ANC’s new leader. Zuma, who has been in power since 2009, faces numerous allegations of …
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February 15, 2018The election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the leader of South Africa’s African National Congress has been greeted with a fair measure of hope and optimism across the world. He is set to take over as the next President and the implications of the change of guard in Johannesburg are profound. The party that nearly 25 …
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December 21, 2017