South Africa

Vladimir Putin will not be going to Johannesburg for the 15th Brics Summit, the South African presidency announced in a press release, and in his place will be Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov; reportedly, the country would have been forced to arrest Putin

Caster Semenya, 2-time Olympic 800 metres champion, excluded from some races for refusal to take drugs to reduce her high level of testosterone, caused by genetic dysfunction, has been defined as 'discriminated against' by European Court of Human Rights

In coastal town of Gqeberha, a rehabilitation centre works to save penguins from extinction; 30 years ago they were around one hundred thousand, whereas today the number of the species living between South Africa and Namibia has dropped to twenty thousand

The South African Revenue Service has introduced new controls on the procedures used by resident persons to move their funds abroad, whereby individuals must complete an approved international transfer application (AIT)

Archaeologists in South Africa would have discovered 153.000-year-old Homo sapiens footprints, the oldest known traces attributed to our species, as presented in a new study

Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy have agreed separate meetings with a delegation of leaders from six African countries to discuss a possible plan to end the war, South Africa's president said

As part of efforts to combat cross-border crime, the KwaZulu-Natal government, in collaboration with the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, is accelerating the construction of a concrete wall with Mozambique

Ninety-year-old Ouma Katrina is the last remaining speaker of the N|uu language, the ancient language of the San people, or Bushmen, believed to be 25.000 years old, struggling to keep it alive

Opposition politicians have called for Putin's arrest under an ICC mandate if he sets foot on South African soil, after he was invited for the Brics conference scheduled for August

The leader of South Africa's largest opposition party, John Steenhuisen, was reappointed as leader of the Democratic Alliance and called for a 'united opposition', presenting himself as the alternative for the country