South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan.

South Africa's main opposition party, joined by some labour and business groups, said on Tuesday it would go to court to fight a bill aimed at providing universal health coverage, which President ...

Elon Musk, a close Trump ally and head of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, has highlighted that law in recent social media posts and cast it as a threat to South Africa’s white ...

Trump’s executive order cutting aid and offering refugee status to South Africa’s Afrikaner farmers has caused a stir in the African country after passage of a controversial land bill.

Lester Kiewit speaks to human rights lawyer, Professor Francis Boyle. Listen to their conversation in the audio below. In its 84-page suit, South Africa accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza, asking ...

US President Donald Trump, right, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law which allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic ...

South Africa is a major beneficiary of U.S. funding under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which contributes around $400 million a year to the country’s HIV/AIDS program.