South Africa

Google plans to invest $90 billion in economic output and help create 300.000 jobs in South Africa by 2030; among the fastest-growing tech giants globally, with 30% y-o-y growth, Google claims AI will bring a wave of new jobs, not just tech roles

SA's ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, has been expelled; it is the latest sign in a recent worsening of relations between the two countries, partly fuelled by Musk's controversial relationship with his home country and its history of apartheid

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will pay an official visit to South Africa on Thursday 10 April, the South African presidency confirmed, calling it part of an inclusive peace process after talks with Russian President Putin

The South African Communist Party will participate in local elections as an independent formation; it is the first time in the history of democratic South Africa

Nominations for Mail&Guardian’s 200 Young South Africans 2025 are open; at its 20th edition, the initiative celebrates the achievements of young people in 19 categories including agriculture, arts-entertainment, finance, health, justice, sport, technology

At the end of the first month of the G20 presidency, SA said it will leverage the opportunity of being the first African country to hold the role to "highlight the barriers to AI of developing countries, including unequal access to digital infrastructure"

Ambulance crews and paramedics are increasingly being robbed and their vehicles hijacked while they are working, feeling increasingly unsafe saving lives in a country with one of the world’s highest rates of violent crime