Top diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies will convene in South Africa on Thursday for a meeting dominated by a packed global agenda but overshadowed by a snub by the top US envoy. As a curtain-raiser to the G20 summit in November, the foreign ministers will gather for talks over two days, held…

South Africa’s national budget meant to be presented on Wednesday has been postponed until further notice due to lack of agreement. The speaker of the National Assembly said this year the African National Congress will need the support of other parties to pass the budget, as it lost its parliamentary majority in an election in…

South Africa on Wednesday indefinitely pushed back the coalition government's first national budget speech to parliament in a shock move following internal pressures over tax hikes. The speech to outline the government's fiscal priorities, including ways of raising revenue, was due to be delivered by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana in parliament. "We have decided to…

Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world's first openly gay imam, was shot dead Saturday near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police said. The imam, who ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims, was in a car with another person when a vehicle stopped in front of them…

Muhsin Hendricks, considered the world's first openly gay imam, was shot dead Saturday near the southern city of Gqeberha, South African police said. The imam, who ran a mosque intended as a safe haven for gay and other marginalised Muslims, was in a car with another person when a vehicle stopped in front of them…

On the streets of Johannesburg's student district, US President Donald Trump's offer to accept white Afrikaners as refugees landed as both "ridiculous" and "lame", among South Africans of all races. On Friday, Trump cut off aid to South Africa and claimed, without evidence, that the Pretoria government is seizing white-owned land and persecuting Afrikaners, descendants…

The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a South African Marxist-Leninist and pan-Africanist political party, has strongly rebuffed comments by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who called for its leader, Julius Malema, to be declared an international criminal. On Sunday, Musk, the American businessman and CEO of Tesla, took to social media to demand immediate sanctions against Malema…

  She says she was violated by police. Now she's brainstorming an AI-integrated app with a panic button that alerts private security to help other women caught in South Africa's tragically high rates of abuse. Peaches, as the 35-year-old sex worker asked to be identified, is among the more than a third of South African…

South Africa condemned on Saturday US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze aid to the country over a law he alleged allows land

President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg's denials. The law would "enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation," Trump said in an executive order,…

In the seven months since it was formed, South Africa's unlikely unity government has been stretched and cracked but remains intact under the leadership of President Cyril Ramaphosa, who delivers its first state of the nation address Thursday. Several loud quarrels have erupted over sticking points such as language education in schools and Ramaphosa's warm…

The remains of 14 South African soldiers killed in the conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo more than a week ago are due home Wednesday, the defence force said, amid calls for all the troops to be withdrawn.