5 h. ago Psychologists in touch with Antarctic base after assault allegation, South Africa confirms

Ministers also investigating sexual harassment claim at country’s isolated Sanae IV research stationPsychologists are in “constant” contact with a South African science team isolated for months at a base in Antarctica after physical assault and sexual harassment allegations were made, a government minister has said.The environment minister, Dion George, whose department manages the country’s Antarctic programme, confirmed to the Guardian that psychologists and other experts were in “direct and constant” communication with the nine-member research team. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Antarctica scientist accused of assault breaks silence after researchers beg to leave base

Researchers at South Africa's remote Sanae IV base had urged their bosses to let them leave or remove the scientist after he allegedly attacked and sexually harassed colleagues

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29 h. ago The scientists at centre of Antarctic base assault mystery: Picture shows team of experts pleading for rescue amid attack and death threat claims at tiny base in subzero wilderness

Footage published in 2021 offers rare insight into life inside the secluded base atop the Vesleskarvet nunatak in Queen Maud Land.

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33 h. ago Antarctic scientist accused of threatening to kill colleagues trapped in research station apologises

The South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment said the alleged perpetrator has “shown remorse”

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33 h. ago Fear at isolated Antarctica base as a man is accused of attacking a colleague and making threats

South African officials say a member of a research team at an isolated Antarctica base has been put under psychological evaluation after he allegedly assaulted and sexually harassed colleagues

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34 h. ago Exact details of Antarctica base row as scientists beg for rescue over terrifying reason

A number of South African researchers posted at an isolated Antarctic research station are living in fear after one of their team members allegedly threatened the life of another

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34 h. ago Revealed: What made Antarctic scientist snap and 'assault and threaten to kill colleagues'

The scientists are currently stationed at Sanae IV base, a research centre located on the northern tip of Antarctica some 4,000 kilometres from their South African homeland

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36 h. ago Dispute that led to assault at Antarctica science base is revealed as team pleads to be rescued after fellow expert 'sexually assaulted and threatened to kill colleagues'

The scientists are currently stationed at Sanae IV base, a research centre located on the northern tip of Antarctica some 4,000 kilometres from their South African homeland

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46 h. ago Trump ENDS Secret Service protection for Biden children after learning of 'ridiculous' cost to taxpayers

President Donald Trump removed Hunter and Ashley Biden's Secret Service detail, citing Hunter's recent trip to South Africa as the reason. 

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52 h. ago Lindsay Lohan's father Michael arrested AGAIN after alleged domestic assault

The 64-year-old media personality was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday for violating probation.

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54 h. ago Antarctic researcher accuses colleague of death threat and assault

South African minister ‘considering options’ after plea for help from member of team on remote baseA member of a South African research team on a remote Antarctic base has accused a colleague of physical assault and making a death threat, pleading for “immediate action” to be taken.The accusations were made in an email sent from the base that was shared with the South African newspaper the Sunday Times. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Scientists in remote Antarctic base send chilling message begging for rescue over 'threat'

An email has been sent from South Africa's Sanae IV base in Antarctica, where scientists are expected to stay isolated in the most inhospitable place on Earth for at least another 10 months

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58 h. ago Trapped Antarctic scientists beg for help after ‘assault and death threats’ from colleague

The South African scientists are in the Sanae IV research centre in Vesleskarvet, Queen Maud Land

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64 h. ago ‘We grew up among drugs and violence. Dance kept us focused’: Oti Mabuse on Strictly, survival and self

When Mabuse lost her brother, dance helped her grieve. Then it made her a star. She talks about her childhood in South Africa, life in Britain, and the ‘full-on’ training for her new tourIn news that should gladden the nation, Oti Mabuse – beloved dancer, grafter and bringer of joy – has just become a British citizen. My own feeling is that Mabuse should have received instant citizenship along with her national treasure status, thanks to her work on Strictly Come Dancing, on which she competed for seven years. At least, thanks to the Life in the UK test, she knows all about our mountains, parliaments and islands, she says with a laugh.No time to celebrate – Mabuse is in the middle of preparing for her new dance tour, Viva Carnival, which opens this summer. Her previous show, I Am Here, “was very personal, about South Africa and growing up, and everything that happened there, and the reasons why I am the way I am. I wanted a slight continuation of that – not where I come from, but wh...

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67 h. ago Scientists trapped on Antarctica for 10 more months plead for help after fellow expert 'sexually assaulted and threatened to kill colleagues' at their tiny base

A South African research group dispatched to Sanae IV base, a research station in Antarctica, are alone on their mission for at least ten more months.

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4 d. ago Marco Rubio declares South African ambassador to US persona non grata after Trump criticism

Declaration comes after Trump administration cut off aid to South Africa

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4 d. ago Marco Rubio declares South African envoy to US persona non grata over speech criticizing Trump, Musk and Vance

Declaration comes after Trump administration cut off aid to South Africa

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4 d. ago Marco Rubio says South Africa’s ambassador to US is ‘no longer welcome’

US secretary of state accuses Ebrahim Rasool of being a ‘race-baiting politician who hates America’ and Donald TrumpThe United States is in effect expelling South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, with secretary of state Marco Rubio accusing the envoy of hating the country and President Donald Trump.“South Africa’s ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” Rubio posted on X on Friday. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Rubio declares South African ambassador to US persona non grata over speech criticizing Trump, Musk and Vance

Declaration comes after Trump administration cut off aid to South Africa

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5 d. ago Dinosaur tracks from 140 million years ago found on coastline

The tracks of sauropods and possibly ornithopods were found in a rugged, remote area in South Africa

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