59 h. ago New inquest rules South African Nobel laureate Albert Luthuli was beaten to death in 1967

A new inquest into the 1967 death of South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and anti-apartheid leader Albert Luthuli has found that he was beaten to death

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3 d. ago Refugee groups condemn Trump’s ‘blatantly racist’ plan to prioritize white South Africans and cap admissions at 7,500 each year

White House issues major overhaul of refugee admission policy to primarily admit Afrikaners

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3 d. ago The challenging history of the South African apartheid movement and America’s right

America’s evangelical Christian community was a strong supporter of the apartheid regime in South Africa

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4 d. ago Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate and Trump critic, says US visa revoked

Soyinka, 91, who recently compared US president to Idi Amin, says ‘I have no visa – I am banned’The Trump administration has revoked the visa for Wole Soyinka, the acclaimed Nigerian Nobel prize-winning writer who has been critical of Trump since his first presidency, Soyinka revealed on Tuesday.“I want to assure the consulate that I’m very content with the revocation of my visa,” Soyinka, who won the 1986 Nobel prize for literature, told a news conference. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Strictly's Motsi Mabuse's transformation laid bare as she shares touching family insight

Strictly Come Dancing judge Motsi Mabuse has been a regular on the hit dance show since 2019, and the South African dancer has now spoken out about her weight loss and family life

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9 d. ago Rugby star who 'grabbed and twisted genitals of opponent' slapped with massive ban

A South African international rugby player has been banned for nine matches after being found guilty of "grabbing, twisting or squeezing the genitals" of an opponent

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9 d. ago Rugby union star gets huge ban for ‘grabbing and twisting opponent’s genitals’

South African international Jan-Hendrik Wessels has been banned for nine matches after he was found guilty of “grabbing, twisting or squeezing the genitals” of an opponent

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1 week ago Judge orders former South African President Zuma to repay $1.6 million in legal fees

A Pretoria High Court has ordered former South African President Jacob Zuma to repay about $1.6 million to the Office of the State Attorney for legal fees

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1 week ago Trump seeks cap on refugee admissions at only 7,500 people — nearly all could be white South Africans

Administration officials are considering plans to drastically slash the number of refugees allowed in the country

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1 week ago Harry and Meghan join AI pioneers in call for ban on superintelligent systems

Nobel laureates also sign letter saying ASI technology should be barred until there is consensus that it can be developed ‘safely’The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have joined artificial intelligence pioneers and Nobel laureates in calling for a ban on developing superintelligent AI systems.Harry and Meghan are among the signatories of a statement calling for “a prohibition on the development of superintelligence”. Artificial superintelligence (ASI) is the term for AI systems, yet to be developed, that exceed human levels of intelligence at all cognitive tasks. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Jay Slater's pal Lucy returns to Instagram for first time since tragic inquest

Lucy Mae Law was on holiday in Tenerife with the teen last year when he went missing and his body was later found in a ravine. An inquest ruled that his death was accidental

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2 w. ago South African rowers of color become first to compete at Charles, part of larger trend toward access

Five athletes are becoming the first from South Africa to compete in the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston as part of a crew comprised of all people of color

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2 w. ago Tragic story behind one of the world's most iconic photos of vulture waiting for a starving child to die: How famed photographer killed himself after being tormented by guilt over shocking image

The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

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2 w. ago Race riot grandad Peter Lynch took own life after breaking prison rules, inquest hears

Lynch died two months after being jailed following riots outside a hotel housing asylum seekers last summer, where he was at the front of a mob, shouting 'scum' and 'child killers' at police

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2 w. ago I've been beaten, scalded and threatened with electrocution... but I don't regret the night I spent with Liam Payne: Waiter who had 'intimate' encounter breaks silence to FRED KELLY

Sandra Paiz lets out a gasp and her eyes pool with tears. She puts a hand to her mouth in shock and with the other picks up a phone. Her son, Braian Paiz, is calling from an Argentine jail cell.

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2 w. ago The Iris Affair review – it takes real guts to write TV this thrillingly preposterous. Strap in!

Tom Hollander and Niamh Algar star in this fun, propulsive tale of a genius code-cracker, an oddball entrepreneur and an evil supercomputer known as Charlie Big Potatoes trapped in a secret lair. Brace yourself for a wild rideThere’s in media res and then there’s the opening of The Iris Affair. The new caper-drama opens with a man being beaten half to death while a woman (Niamh Algar) looks on unmoved and refusing to hand over a MacGuffin to the man ordering the beating (Tom Hollander, channelling Michael Caine). They are watched by a rather more concerned teenager, Joy (Meréana Tomlinson), who becomes infinitely more concerned when Hollander-Caine’s character realises that jamming a gun into her neck might be a better way to elicit a response from MacGuffin lady. Then he realises he can’t quite bring himself to shoot the child. But he can order his heavy to do so. The hired gun swings around and we cut to Sardinia, Italy, the day before. And that, my friends, is how a prologue shou...

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2 w. ago Ghost town Hyena wins Wildlife Photographer of the Year Award

This year's Wildlife Photographer of the Year was won by South African wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever, who scooped top spot out of a record-breaking 60,636 images

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2 w. ago Remembering Mama Africa: struggle of fearless singer Miriam Makeba told in daring dance drama

Mimi’s Shebeen, choreographed by Alesandra Seutin, charts South African legend’s exile and ascendancy with ‘beautiful songs, strong messages and moments that hit’“You speak about Miriam Makeba in South Africa and it’s like speaking about a queen,” says Alesandra Seutin. The legendary singer Makeba was known as Mama Africa, and the Empress of African Song; but she also hung out in Greenwich Village with Miles Davis and Duke Ellington. She was a teenager sent out to work to support her family in Johannesburg who later became a diplomat for Ghana, then Guinea’s official delegate to the UN. An outspoken anti-apartheid activist, she was the wife of a Black Panther. And her rich life and legacy are the inspiration for choreographer Seutin’s latest work, Mimi’s Shebeen, about to get its UK premiere.Mimi’s Shebeen blends dance, live music and spoken word in a piece of theatre that’s no straightforward biodrama but draws on Makeba’s history, particularly her story of exile: after moving to N...

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2 w. ago What to know about the historic Black community rocked by a mass shooting on Sunday

A mass shooting killed four and injured several others on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, home to the largest Gullah community

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2 w. ago Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion says creative upbringing shaped his vision of innovation and freedom

French Nobel economics laureate Philippe Aghion reflects on the creative roots that shaped his award-winning ideas about innovation and growth

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